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RST Launches Airbag Gear Collection For British Market
You're in rarefied air now.
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Dustin Wheelen
26 June 2020
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The Dainese Custom Works Tour is Back
Shut up and take our money
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Jason Marker
03 October 2018
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Alpinestars 2014 Street Collection
New boots, gloves, jackets and suits in the new Alpinestars 2014 Street Collection.
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HFL Staff
27 February 2014
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Best Value One-Piece Motorcycle Race Suits
These are the motorcycle race suits that will give you the most bang for your buck, keep you safe, comfortable, looking good and facilitating the sport.
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Adeyemi Bennett
27 January 2014
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Gear Pick: Spidi Track Wind Pro Replica Leather Suit
The Spidi Track Wind Pro Replica Leather Suit is a mid-price, one-piece motorcycle racing suit. If you own a Ducati, you won’t look faster in anything else.
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HFL Staff
21 January 2014
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By The Numbers: Marc Marquez's Mugello Crash
By The Numbers: Marc Marquez's Mugello CrashDuring practice for this weekend's MotoGP race at Mugello, Marc Marquez had an absolutely huge crash....
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HFL Staff
03 June 2013
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Alpinestars' 2013 Spring Collection
Alpinestars is now in its 50th year of production and they still continue to put out quality gear as shown in...
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Daniel Silverman
20 February 2013
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Gear: Alpinestars Vika leather suit
By now, you know the standard formula for making a women’s leather suit: take an outdated guy’s item, widen the hips and sew on some tribal roses. Make sure it’s only offered in a condescending color palette and, voila, job done, yet more women put off riding. But not this new Alpinestars Vika range. Specifically created to flatter the female figure while offering significant protection it s...
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Sean MacDonald
05 November 2012
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Finally, a leather suit designed for ladies
24 million people in the US rode a motorcycle last year. Want to take bets on how many did so in full leathers? Yeah, a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of that total. But why would the vast majority of riders risk their lives and comfort by skipping protection? They either don’t like the way it looks or don’t understand its benefits. That’s where this new Vika suit by Alpinestars comes in. It seek...
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HFL Staff
28 August 2012
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Testing the Dark Knight Rises Motorcycle Suit
The Dark Knight Rises motorcycle suit, by UD Replica, is both 100% authentic Batman and 100% real riding protection.
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Mark Ryan Sallee
19 July 2012
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Pictured: the future
In the future, our race suits will be capable of predicting crashes, inflating prior to impact in order to absorb forces exceeding even 23g without injury. In the future, those suits will sync to mobile devices more powerful than the computers used to put men on the moon. In the future, all those components will add only 450 grams of weight and require no additional space in the suit. In the futur...
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HFL Staff
13 June 2012
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Go Aerostich, go black
Near elbow down on The Snake. 3,000 miles on a Honda Goldwing. Alone in Death Valley on a 636lbs motorcycle. Through water, in town, in the cold, in the hot desert. “Looks like moderately armored Prada,” according to our buddy Alan. Now you too can dress like two-thirds of the HFL staff; Aerostich is adding a version of the Roadcrafter allegedly inspired by Sean’s custom suit to its catalog....
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HFL Staff
10 May 2012
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Dainese D-Air: the safety race is on
Both Dainese and arch-rival Alpinestars have spent the past decade developing real-life, airbag-equipped superhero suits and now they're ready for public consumption (even though no dates have been given on purchase availability). Alpinestars spilled the beans on TechAir back in August and, this week, Dainese did the same with this new D-Air suit, finally ready for public consumption. The safety a...
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Sean Smith
27 January 2012
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How to stay warm on a bike
Have you ever been cold on a motorcycle? If you answered no, you're either lying or you only ride on sunny days in the summer. The rest of us know that even if it's 65º out, you can still freeze your ass off. It's now November and even in LA, most people have parked their bikes for the winter. Here's how you can stay warm and ride year round. Layers It's the obvious answer but in practice, laye...
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RideApart Staff
04 November 2011
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Living with the Roadcrafter
I thought the Roadcrafter was a wildly overpriced eccentricity, but as I spent more time uncomfortable, cold and wet on my motorcycle, I started to wonder..
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RideApart Staff
02 November 2011
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Gear: Aerostich Roadcrafter
Putting on race leathers makes most people feel like a superhero. You just feel invulnerable. You also get that stepping into a Aerostich Roadcrafter.
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Sean Smith
26 August 2011
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My new favorite thing
First, let’s note what you don’t see in these photos: No grotesque over branding. No Day Glo colors. No logos the size of your thigh. No unnecessary speed hump. No tacky metal stick ons. No functionless air scoops. Instead, there’s just supple, strong, perforated kangaroo hide thats been stitched together by hand in Italy. This is my new custom one-piece from Icon. I love it. “We call it...
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HFL Staff
14 July 2011
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Thank you Alpinestars
So I had a little crash on Sunday. Lowsided at about 40mph and slid down the road, chasing a tumbling bike. You know what? It was actually kind of fun. That’s because it didn’t hurt. Not a bit. That’s because I was wearing head to toe Alpinestars safety gear. I don’t want to say which bike as the we haven’t sorted out the details with the manufacturer but, suffice it to say, that a sli...
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HFL Staff
23 June 2011
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Traffic cops sue LAPD over illegal ticket quotas
“These kind of quotas undermine the confidence of citizens in the Los Angeles Police Department,” said the lawyer for one of two LAPD traffic officers who just won a $2 million settlement after being ordered to write a minimum of 18 major moving violation tickets per-day. Their victory could put an end to riders and drivers being illegally fleeced in the city and will hopefully inspire police ...
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Sean Smith
14 April 2011
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Dainese D-Air: satellites, accelerometers and the safest suit ever
This is the final production version of Dainese D-Air, the new airbag equipped racing suits that you’ve seen Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo racing in this year. Dainese’s is the most sophisticated motorcycle airbag yet. 10 years in the making, D-Air incorporates GPS, three accelerometers, three gyroscopic sensors, the ability to fully inflate in .05 seconds, deflate in 5 seconds and it will...
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HFL Staff
27 October 2010
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Attention manchildren: you can now dress up like Iron Man on your bike
Always wanted to be a depressed alcoholic with daddy issues and an inability to relate to women? Finally, there's a motorcycle suit for all the repressed Tony Stark's out there. From the same company that brought you the Dark Knight leathers comes the Iron Man Motorcycle Suit. A "screen accurate" replica of the Mark V suit Tony throws on in Monaco to battle Mickey Rourke, it's makers are adamant t...
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HFL Staff
14 July 2010
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Badass bikers resort to extreme measures to resolve dispute
Father/son duo Paul Teutul, Sr. and Jr. are putting down their incestuous homoerotic schtick long enough to resolve a disagreement the old-fashioned tough guy way: Sr. is suing Jr. over $500,000 in stock options in their novelty clothing store, Orange County Choppers. Sr. (pictured leaning on his son's flaccid penis extension) claims he had a deal with Jr. (pictured in the awful sun glasses) in wh...
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HFL Staff
28 December 2009
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Alpinestars 365 Gore Tex suit made from leather, yet 100% waterproof
This It's not just the laminate that makes this material special. The leather itself is treated to improve its performance in a wide range of weather conditions. To make it more suitable for hot weather, a special dye is added to the leather to make it capable of reflecting up to 30 percent of the sun's energy. The suit is also breathable, allowing a rider's body ...
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HFL Staff
05 August 2009
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