Topic: old leather jackets

[andy750]

Terry I have to say that MZ was a great little bike  -used it as a motorcycle courier in the summers and it just ran and ran. I took it up to the Scottish Highlands for my first long-distance camping trip. Had my first and second crash on that bike and minimal damage - never another crash since. Good memories! The CZ motocross bike was prob better 

[Terry in Australia]

Terry I have to say that MZ was a great little bike  -used it as a motorcycle courier in the summers and it just ran and ran. I took it up to the Scottish Highlands for my first long-distance camping trip. Had my first and second crash on that bike and minimal damage - never another crash since. Good memories! The CZ motocross bike was prob better 

There was a guy at the swap meet last weekend trying to sell a minty MZ for $3500 AUD (around $2200 USD) and there were no takers. My work colleague loves his but I don’t think he’s ever ridden it, has just been collecting parts for it and waiting for me to restore it.

The CZ250 was a weapon, a local amateur racer beat Gary and Trevor Flood (then current Australian Motocross champions) on it. They were racing the latest and greatest Bultaco’s (before Yamaha and Suzuki got their sh1t together) and I remember pushing Gary Flood halfway around the circuit when he went through some water and his ignition crapped out.

[dave500]

well to revive this thread I had to revive my old jacket,the #$%* aluminium zipper had been crap for a year coming apart while riding ect so got a new nickle plated brass YKK zipper swapped out,so nice now great action to it,last ride it let go I had to wriggle out of it like a mental hospital escapee in a straight jacket and get it off over my head still half zipped up much to the amusement of onlookers,only 120 bucks Im happy.

[HondaMan]

well to revive this thread I had to revive my old jacket,the #$%* aluminium zipper had been crap for a year coming apart while riding ect so got a new nickle plated brass YKK zipper swapped out,so nice now great action to it,last ride it let go I had to wriggle out of it like a mental hospital escapee in a straight jacket and get it off over my head still half zipped up much to the amusement of onlookers,only 120 bucks Im happy.

Nice zoot! Looks like a solid job, too. I had the zipper replaced once in my jacket and it pulled out of the leather on the bottom 6" in a year. I put the next one in myself, by hand, over a long winter. It pays to have a solid zip.

[dave500]

leather by hand?Im not arm wresting you!

[Don R]

 My favorite jacket has closet shrinkage again. It fit me for a while a few years ago but now it's small again. I just don't get it.

[newday777]

My favorite jacket has closet shrinkage again. It fit me for a while a few years ago but now it's small again. I just don't get it.

😆

[HondaMan]

leather by hand?Im not arm wresting you!

Brand-new needlenose pliers. Took 4 needles, too.

[Kevin D]

A few dates associated with this photo:
Jacket: my 1970 Brooks on its second zipper.
Wearer: my 1991 son, at 16 yrs old the jacket fits him perfectly.
             Today he’s much closer to a good fit than I am.
Photo: 2007 at Stockbridge fall meet, I met Bob Wessner this day.
Bike : my 11/70 build, 71 title, K1 with fresh repaint by Jim Nicholson.

[Don R]

 My goal is to fit into my old jacket once more and then stay that size. Progress is slower this time.

[Terry in Australia]

I’m happy that the warmer weather is slowly returning, I wore my 34 year old Stagg “Brando” jacket for the first time in 6 months or so last week when I took my Ducati out for a scoot. A few weeks prior Spotty, Tim (my youngest boy) and I went for a good ride to Heathcote for a pie.

Tim is wearing my 45 year old Mars jacket that I bought around the same time I bought my first K1 in 1980. It still fits me but is a better fit on Tim. I want another one so desperately, but I need a size 48 as the 46 is a bit tight across my shoulders.

[BenelliSEI]

Been three weeks since I've seen a post from Terry. Anyone else noticed? I hope all is well!

[grcamna2]

Been three weeks since I've seen a post from Terry. Anyone else noticed? I hope all is well!

I hope to see his posts..

[Kelly E]

Been three weeks since I've seen a post from Terry. Anyone else noticed? I hope all is well!

I hope he's doing ok. Three weeks is a long time to not hear from him.

[Don R]

 Terry has been on facebook in the last couple days, I think a couple of Kawasaki have his attention right now.

[BenelliSEI]

Terry has been on facebook in the last couple days, I think a couple of Kawasaki have his attention right now.

Good news! Thanks.

[Don R]

  Terry's planning to scare himself on a Kawasaki triple! I think he has a KZ900 also.

[willbird]

Same leather jacket when I was 19 and just got my first motorcycle...I did my first long distance trip on that bike -camping trip to the Scottish highlands. I also used it for a motorcycle courier job, 2-stroke required  manual oil/gas mix. Great bike!

A guy I work with wants me to restore his old MZ and I can't understand why? I guess it's a sentimental thing, I'd still love another CZ 250 Motocross bike like I had in the early 70's.

I would not mind riding a CL175 Honda like I started out riding on in the late 70's but I will be honest that I really do not need one to own. That bike would run 80mph wide open and got 80 mpg. I started out riding it in the 40 acre farm field behind us when I was 14 or so and graduated to the road at 16 once I got a drivers license. I rode it one year until December 1st due to not having a car, found a used car on Dec 1. My dad had told me "when it starts snowing you are done riding the bike this year, and it snowed dec 1 that year.

Bill

[spotty]

  Terry's planning to scare himself on a Kawasaki triple! I think he has a KZ900 also.

terry is alive and well, he's been fooling with his GPz 1100, his second vmax and has finished the Z900 ( not KZ900, thats an american thing ) , he's also just acquired an XVZ1300 ( off me by chance, we did a swap, he got the XVZ and i got most of another CB750, which will become a 70's style street custom..eventually )

he's, this week i think, getting stuck into the 69 mach III, as well as maybe continuing work on the twin cam harley

and there are two swap meets on the next two weekends so who knows what other gems he'll find
 

[Don R]

 I wore my newer jacket to a school program last night, I had forgotten the last time I wore it was on an 85 mile bike ride, it had a few bugs plastered to it. oops.

[grcamna2]

  Terry's planning to scare himself on a Kawasaki triple! I think he has a KZ900 also.

terry is alive and well, he's been fooling with his GPz 1100, his second vmax and has finished the Z900 ( not KZ900, thats an american thing ) , he's also just acquired an XVZ1300 ( off me by chance, we did a swap, he got the XVZ and i got most of another CB750, which will become a 70's style street custom..eventually )

he's, this week i think, getting stuck into the 69 mach III, as well as maybe continuing work on the twin cam harley

and there are two swap meets on the next two weekends so who knows what other gems he'll find

Powerful Yamaha 1300 chopper,how's he like it ?

[spotty]

  Terry's planning to scare himself on a Kawasaki triple! I think he has a KZ900 also.

terry is alive and well, he's been fooling with his GPz 1100, his second vmax and has finished the Z900 ( not KZ900, thats an american thing ) , he's also just acquired an XVZ1300 ( off me by chance, we did a swap, he got the XVZ and i got most of another CB750, which will become a 70's style street custom..eventually )

he's, this week i think, getting stuck into the 69 mach III, as well as maybe continuing work on the twin cam harley

and there are two swap meets on the next two weekends so who knows what other gems he'll find

Powerful Yamaha 1300 chopper,how's he like it ?

not running yet, thats a couple of projects down the line

[rb550four]

  My first set of leathers in 1977 was a 2 piece set, pants and jacket . Brown in color ,Top Gear tag on the neck , got the leathers and and a Captain America stars and stripes helmet a present the day I got my license . They came in handy on many occasions as at 16 I was always trying to master speed and common sense....it seems the more times I lost at speed .the greater my common sense improved . A few years ago I found them in a box in the barn, Elbow, knee, and rear had replacement leather sown into where the road surface sanded it away, the left leg was heat shriveled due to the CL 350 exhaust , but they saved allot of skin.
  I've a rack of my old riding jackets in the shop but that first set of leathers is MIA , I'm gonna look a little harder for them in the barn this spring.

[grcamna2]

Just found this indoor-kept,dark grey thin,soft lightweight USA cowhide(almost dress leather)Cafe-style leather Jacket,made in USA,less than 2lbs.
I wanted a lightweight,soft leather;even though it's not brown,I like the grey.
Vintage quality Sears w/ zip out liner;no fading,from what I can see and the zippers are in excellent condition.
I only have two outside zip pockets,but that's enough.
I found it on Ebay and paid less than $150 to my door.


Got to join the gym now and start working on my Abs   

[jlh3rd]

like my sears original from around 1974.