For 27 yrs. Im a biker by heart.. but now im a full pledge biker for almost 1yr na. I bought my Honda Steed last year and i customized my sizzy bar and change my handle bars to apes. Now it look bigger then b4! Can i wear my Cortech GX jacket n my Roof Boxer helmet while riding my steed? my friends says," hindi yan bagay dyan! pang sports bike lang yan!". can anyone tell me whats the right attire for me, the one that ill be protected and not look rediculous. Ty!:?

In a word... Leather ;)

You should wear the best protective gear you can afford. I don't know much about the gear that you mentioned, but if it was designed and certified for mc use then it should be fine. But oj88 is right aout leather being the best. Its not the most practical though.

If your friend is suggesting that you go for the "sleeveless vest, tattoo and half-helmet" look, then he may have self-esteem issues. :rolleyes:

thanks bro! dont worry im not into any tatoo or wearing a short sleeve leather while riding. I know a friend back in Guam who is a SQUID( term for sports bike rider back there in guam, bec of the shape of the machine). He tried to avoid this dog and w/out any warning his rear tire suddenly went FLIP! he suffered minor injuries like black and blue hips. Thanking his full body leather armor, now hes back on the road. My jacket is made by Tourmasters, more like the joe rocket type with armor pads and reflectors and airflow for hoy riding. Im planning to buy a leather jacket, the one with a good armor pads. Do you know how much is that thing?

Originally posted by Tom Mirasol
If your friend is suggesting that you go for the "sleeveless vest, tattoo and half-helmet" look, then he may have self-esteem issues. :rolleyes:

Hmmmm... sounds more like "Blue Oyster Bar" issues". Sorry to the ones who ride in this get up but I think it looks too gay.

Originally posted by aries_d_great
thanks bro! dont worry im not into any tatoo or wearing a short sleeve leather while riding. I know a friend back in Guam who is a SQUID( term for sports bike rider back there in guam, bec of the shape of the machine). He tried to avoid this dog and w/out any warning his rear tire suddenly went FLIP! he suffered minor injuries like black and blue hips. Thanking his full body leather armor, now hes back on the road. My jacket is made by Tourmasters, more like the joe rocket type with armor pads and reflectors and airflow for hoy riding. Im planning to buy a leather jacket, the one with a good armor pads. Do you know how much is that thing?

I thought squids were idiots who ride like a squid swims.

Anyway, leather jackets can cost PhP 15k up. Maybe there's cheaper but haven't found any. If you really want to get one, I suggest a perforated leather jacket. Sorta like a leather version of mesh.

Originally posted by boylit
I thought squids were idiots who ride like a squid swims.

Anyway, leather jackets can cost PhP 15k up. Maybe there's cheaper but haven't found any. If you really want to get one, I suggest a perforated leather jacket. Sorta like a leather version of mesh.
I dont know why SQUIDS... they say that a sports bike look and shape like a squid. And cruiser riders back in Guam wr called RUBS. meaning, Rich Urban BikerS. I cant understand it, but sports bike are expensive 2 ryt?:crazy:

Originally posted by aries_d_great
......my friends says," hindi yan bagay dyan! pang sports bike lang yan!". can anyone tell me whats the right attire for me, the one that ill be protected and not look rediculous. Ty!:?
Tol.... don't sacrifice safety and comfort over fashion... Here in UK, if you're in full safety gear, leather or man made, the police lalo na yung on bikes will even give you a nod in approval and a smile.
Pero mahilig ako sa black dahil di nalalaos at di rin lumalabas ang dumi:D Pero pagdating sa jacket gusto ko isang kulay lang dahil babagay sa itim na pants ko, kahit anong kulay pa yung jacket.

I did not write this. I took it from another website, from aguy who picked it up somewhere else. Author is unknown, but knows what he's talking about. A long post, but worth reading:

Riding without boots and crashing might cost you some road rash or foot mash or even in an extreme case might lead to amputation. You might never walk without a limp. You might battle a weight and fitness problem for the rest of your life. You might never walk with pain. But it probably wouldn't kill you.

Riding without gloves and crashing might cost you some road rash or a munched hand or the severe, excrutiating pain of mangling a body part rich with nerve endings. Or you could lose a finger or two. It could cost you the ability to play ball with your son, or to hold a beer. But it probably wouldn't kill you.

Riding without at least an armored jacket and leather trousers or full leathers or an Aerostich or even just a leather jacket and jeans and crashing might cost you serious road rash. You might grind off a nipple. You might embed gravel in your elbow. You might get beef jerky all over your back.

You might grind off your kneecap or have a scar resembling Australia on you calf like a friend of mine does. You would be scarred for life and not be able to walk on a beach shirtless without feeling self conscious. You might end up like Kevin Spacey's character in "Pay It Forward" and have to deal with the same awkward moment every time you remove your clothes with a new lover. But it probably won't kill you.

Riding without a back protector and crashing in all but rare crashes would be inconsequential. However, there are so many variables out there- curbs, fenders, poles, guardrails, debris in the road- any one of these could be the golden BB that nicks your spinal cord in just the wrong way and leaves you in a wheelchair for life. Or, maybe you just have constant sciatic pain in one leg. Or you can't move your legs.

Or you have to wear diapers for when you **** yourself, and/or a colostomy bag you have to pull out of your pants leg and squeeze your waste out into the toilet at a bar like a guy I know. Or you can't move from the chest down. Or from the neck down. Are you good at working joysticks with your mouth? Or maybe you might need a respirator? Or 24 hour care? Certainly, there are impacts that are completely forseeable that would permanently injure you even with the best back protector in the world.

But there are crashes and subsequent impacts that even mediocre back protectors can make that little bit of difference in- the ones you get up and walk away from, sore all over, but *walking*.

Do you want the last time you walked to be when you walked out of 7-11 with a pack of smokes and then got on your bike? Those precious few steps out the door and over to the bike to be the five steps you remember the rest of your life because the next time you were off the bike you were lying strapped to a backboard staring at the headliner of an ambulance, tears running down your face because you couldn't feel the little piggies and you were almost ready to vomit at the stench of your **** because you lost control of your bowels? Riding without a back protector and crashing might not make a difference, or it might make all the difference in the world.

It might not kill you, but it might make you wish it had.

And, finally, helmets. Riding without a helmet and crashing might be of no consequence. You might never even touch terra firma with your head. Or you might give yourself an asphalt facelift. You might get a concussion that results in only a bad headache the next day. You might get a serious concussion that lands you in the hospital for endless CAT scans and MRIs, and for the rest of your days be plagued by migraines.

You might fracture your orbital and lose your vision. You might fracture your skull and end up fully functional but with a horrible Frankenstein like scar and a metal plate that bothers you on cold days and sets of metal detectors in airports. You might have a closed head injury from which you don't awaken from for hours or days or weeks or months- all the while your mother, father, sister, brother, children, workmates, and/or riding buddies come a visit you, filling an utterly depressing hospital room into a gauche jungle of flowers and bright card saying "get well soon!" that you never see or smell.

Sure, you might awaken completely normal besides the hole drilled in your head to reduce pressure. Or you might awaken a little fuzzy, unsure who these people are. Or you might awaken and have to re-learn everything it took you all your life to learn, eventually returning to normal or even better like Harrison Ford in "Regarding Henry".

Or you might awaken a man-child, drooling and laughing as you try to stack blocks, wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt signed by your mother, father, sister, brother, children, workmates, and/or riding buddies- which you will never read.

Or you might have an open head injury, from which the "you" you know will most likely never return. The rest of your life -be it a day, a week, a month, a year- will consist of feeding tubes, the endless beep and whoosh of the heart monitor and respirator, and the drip-drip or IV fluids, catheters in your rod, and feeding tubes.

Of course, you won't mind all of this, you'll be in a dream land no one knows about. Your body will waste away and a trophy. Eventually, the shell that used to be you would give out, and your loved ones would have to make the most grueling decision of their life.

Or, you might die on the road, fluffy gray brain matter mixing with blood and cerebro-spinal fluid. Perhaps you last ride would be twenty miles an hour down the street by your house combined with an impatient young driver and an ignored stop sign.

Or perhaps it would be a ride on the freeway and a pothole denting your rim and popping the front tire off the bead sending you into the guardrail. Or you might go out in a blaze of glory qith a 100 mph wheelie ending the wrong way.

Whichever way, would make maybe a 10 second news story depending on where you live, maybe a paragraph buried on page 32B of the paper. Riding without a helmet could be of no matter- or it could mean the difference between going on as you are now, or having life taken awy from you as if God flipped a switch.


I can live without toes or a mangled foot- but I choose to try and prevent that. I can live with a hand that looks like a burn victim's and maybe relearn to write with my left hand- but I choose to try and prevent that. I can live with a scar in the shape of Australia on my calf- but I try and prevent that. I can live with road rash on my torso and arms- but I try to prevent that. I could live in a wheelchair, agonizing through every day, but I chose to try and prevent that.

I can't live as a man-child. I've already played with blocks. I only drool when I sleep.

We all make choices. gear can't always save you. All the best leather, denim, Cordura, Kevlar, fiberglass, and plastic is useless when fate throws the Immovable Object or the Irresistible Force in your path. But I choose to stack the deck in my favor. If it all ends up for naught and the stacked deck and the cards up my sleeve end up losing to Fate's royal flush, so be it.

But I'll try.

-Author unknown-

Originally posted by botchix
Tol.... don't sacrifice safety and comfort over fashion... Here in UK, if you're in full safety gear, leather or man made, the police lalo na yung on bikes will even give you a nod in approval and a smile.
Pero mahilig ako sa black dahil di nalalaos at di rin lumalabas ang dumi:D Pero pagdating sa jacket gusto ko isang kulay lang dahil babagay sa itim na pants ko, kahit anong kulay pa yung jacket.
I'll remember that bro tnx. I feel so protected with my cortech jacket and my roof boxer helmet, kaso d2 sa Pinas, meron mga tao na d sanay makakita ng naka full safety gear. mga iba medyo nakakainis, sabi nla.. mayabang. the truth is, marami din talaga na naiingit sa atin because as bikers we have the best of both worlds. sa family and d adventure we experience sa road.:* Im a LoneWolf of the highway, ala ako makasama sa road. I need a wing man, para maski ano suot ko d nila ako nilalait na over daw ako sa attire ko. palibhasa d nila alam ang DiZipLin ng biking. Iba nga, naka slippers lang, naka sando tatlo-tatlo pa sakay nila sa isang bike, ang bilis-bilis pa. pag nga dumadaan ang mga bikers d2 sa Tarlac, maybe papunta cla Baguio or Ilocos or Pangasinan, sana isa ako sakanila... Nway ty nga pala sa mga reply nyo mga tol! at least i feel so accepted sa inyo. RIDE SAFE!:)

Originally posted by Tom Mirasol
I did not write this. I took it from another website, from aguy who picked it up somewhere else. Author is unknown, but knows what he's talking about. A long post, but worth reading:


... We all make choices. gear can't always save you. All the best leather, denim, Cordura, Kevlar, fiberglass, and plastic is useless when fate throws the Immovable Object or the Irresistible Force in your path. But I choose to stack the deck in my favor. If it all ends up for naught and the stacked deck and the cards up my sleeve end up losing to Fate's royal flush, so be it.

But I'll try.

-Author unknown-

Way to go.... the only way to go. :)

Originally posted by Tom Mirasol
We all make choices. gear can't always save you. All the best leather, denim, Cordura, Kevlar, fiberglass, and plastic is useless when fate throws the Immovable Object or the Irresistible Force in your path. But I choose to stack the deck in my favor. If it all ends up for naught and the stacked deck and the cards up my sleeve end up losing to Fate's royal flush, so be it.

But I'll try.


Mr. Tom Mirasol It was very well said indeed, when it comes to gearing up for the ride, I try to live by this code of self protection.

to aries d great ; off topic lang, saan mo nabili roof boxer mo nag hahanap kc ako n how much mo nabili?

Originally posted by aries_d_great
I'll remember that bro tnx. I feel so protected with my cortech jacket and my roof boxer helmet, kaso d2 sa Pinas, meron mga tao na d sanay makakita ng naka full safety gear. mga iba medyo nakakainis, sabi nla.. mayabang. the truth is, marami din talaga na naiingit sa atin because as bikers we have the best of both worlds. sa family and d adventure we experience sa road. Im a LoneWolf of the highway, ala ako makasama sa road. I need a wing man, para maski ano suot ko d nila ako nilalait na over daw ako sa attire ko. palibhasa d nila alam ang DiZipLin ng biking. Iba nga, naka slippers lang, naka sando tatlo-tatlo pa sakay nila sa isang bike, ang bilis-bilis pa.


Sentiments same here bro!! A friend of mine once told me na Pare ikaw lang ang nakikita ko ng naka gear-up palagi pag nag momotor what I said is this....kasi Palagi sa isip ko pag nag momotor ako maski may time na malayo mangyari is ONE MISS YOU DIE..... and ang motor dalawa lang ang gulong na umaandar ng mabilis and wala akong pakialam kung sabihin nila na ang baduy ko O mayabang ako basta kahit papano bibigyan ko ng laban ang sarili ko sa disgrasya....... and kung nakakakita tayo ng mga bikers na naka sando, tsinelas, T-shirt, walang helmet or walang proteksyon sa katawan...... ang tingin ko pwedeng napaka galing na talaga nila mag motor kasi siguro simula bata pa nagmomotor na sila and alam na nila ginagawa nila, or sila yung siga or tunay na mayabang FEELING INDISTRUCTIBLE OR UNBREAKABLE sila.... and alam mo if I have a lot of money to spend I'll invest sa mas matibay and more relliable but less loud gears to protect me......and if you try to really look around hindi lang ako ang may ganitong dicipline sa pag momotorsiklo.
..............................thats what I told him.

[igears to protect me......and if you try to really look around hindi lang ako ang may ganitong dicipline sa pag momotorsiklo.
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parehas pala tyo bro, iba na tlaga yung my disiplina sa sarili. tenks men!

Originally posted by wewenski
to aries d great ; off topic lang, saan mo nabili roof boxer mo nag hahanap kc ako n how much mo nabili? Bro d me bili helmet ko.padala lang friend ko from guam. alam ko pwede ka order, pero bgay kunalang syo website.

I'm thinking about buying a flight helmet like the one Tom Cruise wore as "Maverick" in "Top Gun". I saw it on ebay for 500 bucks. Looks cool, don't it? Imagine me zooming down the freeway wearing this! "I feel the need! The need....FOR SPEED!!" :)

http://i15.ebayimg.com/02/i/00/aa/9a/53_1.JPG

http://i7.ebayimg.com/01/i/00/aa/b9/89_1.JPG

[QUOTE]Originally posted by yamota
[B]I'm thinking about buying a flight helmet like the one Tom Cruise wore as "Maverick" in "Top Gun". I saw it on ebay for 500 bucks. Looks cool, don't it? Imagine me zooming down the freeway wearing this! "I feel the need! The need....FOR SPEED!!" :)
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Bro, a Roof Boxer helmet looks just like a jet fighter pilot helmet. if ur the kind of guy who loves to customize things. u can paint it and make it look exactly like that of Tom Cruise. and if u are an Anime lover, u can change and do something about it. can be like the anime hero GUYVER! he,he. ride safe man!

well, after buying the helmet and customizing it, it'll still probably end up costing me close to 500 bucks, so why not get the real thing eh? :)