Joe Rocket boots review

I have purchased some new riding footwear and have chosen a pair of Joe Rocket Meteor boots. I am starting at the bottom in putting together an outfit suitable for riding in colder places. That could be southern Australia or New Zealand or beyond. Basically here in the tropics even my full winter setup is designed around the fact that it never is really properly cold. I decided I wanted to

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New Earplugs

My new supply of soft silicon earplugs has arrived. For reasons I am not certain of these style of earplugs mostly used by swimmers are marked up in Australia 3 to 4 times the price they retail for overseas, so I source mine from the Earplug superstore USA. If you dislike regular foam earplugs or find they do not stay put in your ear then consider giving the silicon ones a try. You can get

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Helmet Windjammer

I took my previous Shark RSR helmet out for a spin yesterday to revisit an item designed to cut wind noise on helmets I had purchased some years ago. Called the Windjammer II from Proline Sports UK I first purchased this to use on a KBC helmet I previously owned that was particularly noisy. On that helmet riding the Buell XB Lightning I found little change so discarded the Windjammer until

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Hide and Seek

That's the game I think I was playing with the scattered showers today when I decided to do a smaller then usual southern ride.
The weather looked fine this morning and after a slow start I got on the road sometime before 8.00am with no real plan other than south. I know I ride there a lot, I did look at a northern ride last night and the distance to Maleny and Murwillumbah are about the same

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Easter 3 day mini tour

Oxley HighwayI basically only decided to go for a ride on Thursday afternoon, and even then it was no firm plan, more an idea.

4 days off work with more of less half decent weather seemed too good to just use around home. Thursday evening I hatched a half baked plan to do a 4 day ride to the Tablelands way and getting all my gear ready and working out a route took late into the night. Next

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Airhawks and Grip Puppies and Convertibars

I checked my original review of the Air Hawk Seat Pads and have updated it further now that this has become a long term review item.

Mine is showing very few signs of wear, just some fading of the fabric cover that I could dye black again should it get worse.

Inflating with even less air on the flat seat of the Buell has made it such that I don't even notice it under me these days.

Checked my

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Mr Blue Sky

Remember the song by E.L.O, Mr Blue Sky? I was humming that inside my helmet today after a long spell of wet weather. “Sun is shinin' in the sky There ain't a cloud in sight It's stopped rainin' ev'rybody's in a play And don't you know It's a beautiful new day hey,hey“ Uhm… well helps if you like 80’s tunes I guess. Last night it was still raining so I stayed up late watching an

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