Modern Vespa

Wife got me an Olympia Motosport airglide II mesh jacket and a pair of Aerostich Vegan gloves! 41 degrees on my ride into work today and I was toasty. The tall fabbri helped though.

Why would someone who enjous Roy Deals in Perry buy "Vegan" gloves?

I was thinking about buying an Airglide jacet for my summer jacket. I'm going to replace my Blue Joe Rocket with something in high-vis yellow. Thanks for the post. After using a few more days please post some more detail on how you like it.

Wait oysters aren't vegetables? Yeah I will post more on the jacket...so far so good. It is a 2XL and fits well. The girl my wife bought it from said they run small. I think she got it in Daytona but I will check...she said they really sounded like the knew what they were doing.

A Joe Rocket Meteor 6.0 all weather Jacket that included armor..

Mine is a Phoenix V with lots of miles on it and showing some wear. I like it and will keep as a back-up but have become more and more a believer in the high visibility yellow and will get a mesh one in the spring. I have met two people who wiped out wearing Joe Rocket Phoenix V gear and both swear by it as litterally having saved their butts.

I got a self-inflating mattress and my husband's gift is a camping vacation on the bikes this summer. I'm trying to decide if we are just riding up through the mountains around here, which is definitely wonderful riding, heading on up the Appalachians to see Niagara Falls (cliche I know, but I want to see it), or probably trailering out toward South Dakota or Wyoming and riding a whole different kind of mountains. I don't like the idea of trailering, but that is about 22 hours away and it would be quicker to just haul butt out there in the truck on the interstate, and my hubby doesn't have 3 months off in the summer. Decisions, decisions.

Pretty thoughtful gift from your hubby GG. Wish I had to make your decisions.

My lovely wife surprised me with the heated Piaggio leg cover (or at least a photo of it - ScooterCrazy has not shipped it out yet).

The real gift here is an extra month of commuting-on-scoot weather. Oh, and something relevant to post to this thread

I know - he is a student of JimC's grumpy old git school, but awfully sweet every now and again. I think I'll keep him round .

I got,

G&G Muffler, in Black This is going to look awesome on the MP3 500. Can't stand the chrome exhaust.

Spot 2 Messenger GPS Tracker

Weather Proof Battery Tender

Was going to get an Akuma Phantom II Helmet, but then we got a ton of snow and got a Big Snow Thrower instead.

Wayne B

My xmas was the new "Russell seat, and oxford hot grips", even though I am paying for them!

Hey, I sent you a PM Carpenter.. I am in Plymouth too..

Might be a stretch for some but I got a Canon S90 compact camera. I was getting grumpy about missing shots when on the scooter in traffic. My sweeties solution to that was to get me a pocketable camera that takes high quality pictures so I can whip it out while on the scoot. Cool! Haz best sweetie evar.

Bubba

Get a lanyard to hang the camera around your neck while riding.
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Wayne B

speaking of cameras my stepson got this http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/1/4/346/25160/ITEM/GoPro-HD-Motorsports-Hero.aspx for christmas. he showed me a video he shot with it and it was pretty good. a little wobbly, he had it mounted to his tank but not too bad.

I have an Oregon Scientific Action Cam that I used once, just long enough for me to figure out moving pictures aka talkies are not my thing. With that said I'm going to post it in the stuff for sale section for $75 but if anyone here is interested you can PM me. Aerostich item # 3964.

LL75

I got some Snap-On tools for Christmas

Hey Bubbajon,

I've tried lanyards, even one of the type that hugs the camera to your chest, all with minimal success. I'm going to see if I can fabricate a pocket with a velcro flap and mount it on the dash where I can grab it in a hurry. Rain won't be a problem as I'll just put it inside my jacket. The main thing I'm wanting to achieve is a fast access before that moose wanders off the road..or bear? Let me know how you approach this issue.

LL75

I got four towels

SSGT you got enough for polishing your bike, with four towles

were you bad this year ssgt?

why not just leave it in your upper pocket of the jacket that way when you walk away from the bike or switch bikes it is always with you. The motion to reach and remove it from 1 pocket on you would be the same as reaching to a pocket on the scoot. same amount of time, unless you have a quick draw type gun holster thingy.

Damn right I will. Well, she gets a laptop, I get four towels, such is life

Hi peeps I was lucky to get a shoie multitec in black



I then treated my self to a admore led light bar




And then a top box rack to mount the admore light bar on then mount it to my givi e52 top box



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those are crying towels. they are very special as not just any towel will do. They can double a cleaning as well for laptops

Thanks Wayne - gots. The guys at Chattanooga scooter gave me some nifty Piaggio and Aprillia lanyards way back when. Perfect! I do need to come up with a better way to hook it to the camera - right now I'm clipping to the wrist strap that came with the camera. I'll figure something out to make a smaller loop...

Hell Larry, I can see that's a bear with one eye closed
Anyway - I've already been experimenting - so far rthe simplest is just have in my shirt pocket and wear fingerless gloves. Unzip jacket a bit, pull out by lanyard, poke power button and ready to rock. I wish the little guy was ike my big SLRs - when they sleep all it takes is a tap on the shutter and they're awake. Not so with the lil bugger - you have to poke the power button. I know, I know.... "in a perfect world..."
Hmmm will have to give some thought to a velcro closed pocket case fastened to dash or under windshield. It would still need a lanyard as I simply expect being fumble-fingered with any kind of gloves on. There's also the gorilla pod that would mount on bars - maybe that has a quick release... can do videos then too! Videos can be fun - Oscar (of teh Austin Scooter Club) does vids of our rides and they are really fun to watch.
See if this one works: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=552379905&k=5ZG65W52PT2DVJCITKXVPVWQRTKEV6&oid=226616884214

Dang! I like 'em all! Where'd you get that rack from?

I got a rock.

(Oh wait, that was Hallowe'en.)

Nothing for me , but somebody gave my GF a little fold-up car seat warmer with a 12VDC plug. I'm eyeing it because I'm wondering if it would fit over the /500 seat and plug into (and not overload) the underseat power jack.

Sticky, I was hoping for a particular jacket from Wilson Leather (I guess nobody picked up the hint) but that jacket of yours looks fab.

Hey Larry, you sure that thing isn't a radar gun?

Hey don't forget, RAM makes a little handbar mount for cameras with a 1/4-20 tripod hole. You could even lean it over outboard of your windscreen.

I got monkey butt powder.

hi I ordered it from a place called www.getgeared.co.uk they Are based near a well known bikers haunt called Boxhill in Surrey England was £34.99 which was not to bad il take picture when both are mounted

Are you serious? I'm so freaking fat there's no way in hell I can get a camera in or out of my pocket fast. Visualize the Oscar Meyer weiner and you'll understand what I'm dealing with. Naturally Jan 1st is the kick-off day for my annual "lose 25 lbs or you don't get to go on your tour diet" but that's no guarantee. Besides, I like having it right in front of me where I can see it, pockets are a mystery and have other stuff in them and my brain gets confused. Get it? Nice try...

LL75

I did the RAM thing on my handlebars but it was too shakey. Probably something related to the bike - Aprilia Pegaso one-lunger stump puller. Likes to vibrate a lot. Never tried it on the Ninja which would probably fare better. I was going to trade it to a buddy for a ScottOiler he's never used but that fell through when he couldn't find it. Anyway I'm not into making movies so it's going away. Maybe someone will have something weird to trade for it. (Non-human, I'm not interested in your first-born or your nephew )

LL75

Got myself an LED battery gauge in black (not chrome!). Had bought a signaldynamics.com heads-up voltage monitor first, but after receiving a unit that did not work and getting a replacement, I still was not happy with the way it functioned (it uses a combined red/green LED for display, and the yellow is too difficult for me to distinguish from the green)... so I opted for the Kuryakyn battery gauge. Not yet installed but I did test it and it seems to work well. I will install it just above the information plate on the right (by the right knee) where the LEDs will be visible enough without being pointed directly at my eyes as if it was installed on the dash.

BTW, signaldynamics refunded my entire cost including shipping - which was refreshing. I like their headlight modulator - great product - but the voltage monitor didn't do it for me. The signaldynamics voltage monitor is also listed on the customdynamics page just below the Kuryakyn unit, linked above.

Got a few other things too like Dr Pulley sliders, and now need time off to get them installed! I can get myself holiday gifts but not the time I need to play with them...

That's the exact same one I've been intending to order except I'll probably go through Aerostich. (Only because they have some other stuff I want so the freight, etc, will be a wash.) The location you chose is interesting, I hope you'll post a photo of it?

Best,

LL75

ok but you front breast pock on your jacket is cheaper thatn uyong something and trying to figure out a spot and yada yada yada. and the best part is it is always where your at so your not saying later oh shit my camera and wlaking back to the bike 5 min later.

Are we having fun yet OAD?

always 8)

Not sure how a lanyard won't work. Hell I take pictures while I am riding down the road. Just grab the camera hit the power button, point and shoot. Learned this when I was following the Scooter Cannonballers from Whites Ferry to Washington DC.

You tried a neck Lanyard, right?

Wayne B

Yep, we used to sell them (for another application) so I messed with lots of them. Two things that were troublesome, the camera tended to bounce around which was distracting, and the lens cover worked its way off and joined the camera's flapping around.

Thats when I moved on to the type of harness that holds the camera against your chest using a harness rig with the lens sticking out of a corresponding opening. It seemed like a good idea at the time and from the standpoint of stopping the thrashing around it worked. It was still nearly a 2-handed affair to pull it up and shoot pictures though so it's joined the rest of my collection of useless things.

For me the best thing I came up with was keeping the camera in the top of my tank bag so all I had to do was unzip the cover and grab it. Thats why I think I'll look for a somewhat loose holster with a velcro flap that I can mount on the dash, probably the left side. BTW, this is not a big deal so I wouldn't want to see anyone waste much time on it, I'll get a solution figured out eventually.

Thanks,

LL75