And we're on another episode. Episode 2500.
And a half, yeah. So today the episode will be
very chill, I think because it's the last episode for today.
We recorded some, some episodes. We we recorded a bunch of
episodes that. In one day to tell people why we
are recording a bit in advance. Nowadays, it's because I'm
living. Yeah, but we were talking about
it. You, you already mentioned that,
yeah, you're living. So we need to record in advance,
but also we would like to have some, some free, free Sundays
for ourselves because we record on Sundays.
What is that, Free Sundays? Yeah, I don't know about that.
It's a promo, Yeah. You know, I know for free
Sundays you get 6 days and one for free free Sundays.
But today's episode, today's episode is about our hobbies,
actually a hobbies that we don't do much nowadays about
motorcycles. Yeah, exactly.
Motorcycles in style. We need to, I mean we need to
squeeze something we keep talking about all the time.
Yeah, we squeezed motorcycles. We talked about Distinguished
Gentleman's Ride not so long ago.
You could see you guys could see also some interviews I did this
year on Distinguished Gentleman's Ride.
Yeah, but what is actually the style on two wheels?
Because you know, a lot of motorcycle guys, they wear the
special attire, the special clothes with those technical
stuff, with those crash pads. They're they're actually very
distinctive styles based on motorcycle.
I would say that it's almost impossible to drive a motorcycle
without thinking about style. But a lot of people do that.
I mean, even the guys that don't have style, they have the style.
The BMW guys, the bankers and so on, they have their banker
style. It's like the vest, the finance
bro vest, you know, They don't have the style, but they do.
You mean those off road bikes? Yeah, exactly.
So even when you don't want to
have style, you have a style by default because it's about the
clothes that you're wearing so. No, style is also some kind of.
Yeah, exactly. In that regard, it is.
Like guys on sport bikes in hoodies.
Yeah. And sneakers.
Or the guys that are driving sports bike but with all the
sports bike attire, you know, leather and all the very
silhouetted, the garments and also helmets and all you know,
like they also having their own style.
Yeah, that's actually pretty cool when you have when you have
a sport bike in some racing colors and you have this letter
outfit, the one piece. Yeah, exactly.
It is a style, yeah, But a lot of guys are wearing maybe a
jacket, motorcycle jacket and then jeans and sneakers and even
in Harley. And for me, that's a trigger
because when I see a guy that looks cool in a leather jacket
and nice jeans, for example, just classical jeans, and then
they wear sneakers. Why?
Yeah, Yeah. Why not boots?
It looks bad. And also that's stupid because
that's raining. I mean, it's just gonna lose
your foot if your buck stumble upon your.
I mean, it's not even authorized.
I don't know. In certain countries, maybe it
is. But I know that in France, I'm
not even sure you're authorized to drive.
You're not authorized to drive if you don't have the right
protections on your hands, or at least some kind of protection.
I mean, I mean, it's a, it's a thing with insurance, but the
you shouldn't drive without a helmet.
And that's the that's the one thing.
Yeah, the European Union. In France it goes a bit further
and it goes also with the. I don't remember if it's the
shoes or if it's the gloves, but yeah, you can get a fine if you
don't have one of these two. I don't remember anymore, but
yeah, anyways, it means that you are self aware of the clothes
that you are wearing. So basically you got to have a
style. I think we are more into the
iconic looks a bit more like those Cafe Racer.
Steve McQueen. Exactly Steve McQueen, Marlon
Brando and type of style. So this is more the icon that
the icons that we have in mind or even some French I learned
alone also was wearing very cool outfits like this.
So yeah, we have more these type of.
Bad boys. Yeah, exactly.
Leather Jack. Definitely the bud.
Jeans. Boots, yeah, but that looks
good. But you know that they're
actually, because I don't think they were typically motorcycle
clothes with crash pads, but you can actually find clothes like
that styled like that. We have in the Stockholm
Occasional Rider. That's the name of the store.
The guy the owner also takes part in Distinguished
Gentlemen's ride. Very cool, very cool outfits,
very cool trousers, head on helmets, hand painted, custom
made, almost bispo, sometimes even bespoke made or short
limited editions of helmets. Really cool stuff.
Yeah, and that's we. I mean, it's super important to
always combine security comes first and style comes second.
But it's funny because there was this, there is a very important
YouTube channel, It's also a blog and a website and it's
called Fort 9. And, and one guy was showing the
strengths of leather in comparison to synthetic material
in terms of protections. And that's why the sports bike
that we're talking about, they are made of leather.
And that's also why we are always talking about the leather
jacket. I'm always talking about the
same brand that makes super strong leather jackets.
But basically you want a very thick and strong leather.
Jacket. It's also not breathable
leather. It's not.
That's the. Thing that you can have some
synthetics that has this mesh here that is.
Yeah, but they will never be as resistant, especially to
abrasion. So abrasion is the phenomenon
that happens when you're on just you fold off your back and you
are like. Sliding on sliding Exactly.
And there is nothing better than leather.
So at the end of the day, whether whatever the synthetic
material that you are using, it's never going to be as good
as a good old letter because it's just the one that resists
the more to the heat and also to abrasion and will also deflect
the heat etcetera, etcetera. So it's just the best 1.
So it's lucky that the most good looking garment is also the most
protective. So then you can really invest in
a cool jacket. I would say that of course, when
you are eating the ground, you'd rather have some pad.
And what I, I've always done is to have an Intel layer.
So I have a jacket that I put above, but I have a layer with
the pads. So then you get some because
let's face it, most of the jackets that comes with pads,
they are not always the best. So then you can have a very cool
jacket in its on its own. I have something like that that
a shield. I remember in 2009 when I have
my first motorbike, it was a Suzuki Bandit I when it was
warm, so then I wore this shield so it was just pads on some kind
of mesh. Yeah, that's cool.
It's a bit more like the motocross type of you are doing
a lot of this type of thing. So you have the mesh that holds
it to you. You look basically like, you
know, American football player, but that's that works quite well
actually. It looks you look a bit like
you're doing it too much, but on the other hand, when it's very
warm, it's just. So nice.
Yeah, I, I, I rode a bike in just tank top shorts and with
those paths, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's, I cannot
stress enough how much it's super important for us to
protect yourself. That's what why I get a bit
triggered sometimes when I see maybe those gentlemen Dr. are a
bit part of it. They're dressed in very nice
suit and all, but I'm like bro, if you fall.
Like me, I drove. In a suit.
And you can also see some pictures of me on my profile on
a motorbike in a suit. But you know, when you, when you
drive in the city, when you drive pretty slowly, it's like,
I mean, I, I know no Vespa right now and I'm not wearing
protective stuff, but the risk is the same.
It's just the risk is less because to, to, to lose your
legs because you have the protection there.
So in case of impact, you're not impacting directly with your,
with your legs, because when you're on a motorbike, your legs
are on the bike. And when a car hits you.
And most, actually most statistically proven, most
crashes are because a car drives out from, I don't know,
perpendicular street, so they hit directly.
You crash on your legs. Yeah, because basically there is
no protection. You're directly getting the hit
on the motorcycle. So we are passionate about
motorcycle and we could brag all day about how such a nice
feeling it is to be on. But I mean, that's basically the
modern horses you should ride the all.
Sometimes you will feel that's quite cool.
But it's the same with motorcycle.
But when you, I don't know if you, you know, there's a saying
it's like you are not a real motorcycle driver unless you got
real bad accident. And it's more a joke, to be
honest. But I had this very bad accident
and I could have died. And and then you feel more aware
of certain things and then you get a bit more grounded on this
pleasure and protection is so important than you will maybe.
I mean, I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing a suit on
motorcycle just because I'm like, yeah, too much risks, you
know? I crashed my first new brand new
bike three days after driving out the dealership.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was looking on another car
that was that was driving a bit weird in a weird way.
And in front of me, the traffic jam started a bit too early and
I crashed in a in a car. And then the girl went out and
it was my ex from ground school, I think, or high school.
And she's like, what did you do? What did you do?
And I was wait a minute. I took off the helmet.
Oh, hi. Oh, hi.
Hello. And we started to talk.
And you know what? Maybe we should just park.
We I will take the, the, the bike.
How are? You.
How are you doing? What are you doing?
I mean, she got a new bumper from my insurance company, so
she was, she was pleased, but I wasn't because I waited one
month for my bike. Yeah, yours got completely
destroyed. No, not completely that they
fixed it, but it was almost total because it's easy to total
your bike. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
But I got a special Leo Vince carbon exhaust instead of the
original 1. Well, that's cool.
Yeah, but the one that knows. Yeah, but since then I didn't
have my own motorbike. I just had some call ups with
Moto. Good.
See. Yeah.
But right, I would say, of course, we're talking about
stuff that maybe are a bit in our bubbles, but there is still
a lot of good stuff to take from this type of style.
And that would be cool to have a little summarizing of some key
elements that are coming more from motorcycling that can
definitely be worn. I mean, of course the leather
jacket is one of them, that is. Super bike jacket.
Exactly, Bike jacket, whether it's this typical Brando 1
double breasted, you know, bike jacket.
I mean you mean you mean the black one like short for
example? Exactly the short iconic model
that is very cool 1 so. Barber jackets, not leather, but
they also have some Steve McQueen line.
Yeah, yeah, those ones are quite cool, less protective, of
course. So you will need to have
protection underneath. But yeah, those ones we talked
about private white VC also the other day that are making for
me. They are a step above Barbo.
Barbo is very cool, but it's not the same making as private white
VC that are made in Manchester I believe and made still there.
So it's quite, quite a very nice garment.
And you can wear them because the idea is also to wear them
outside of your motorcycle. Maybe you are not even a rider
so you just have pieces that looks cool.
Outside, I mean, it just looks like a motorcycle jacket, but
yeah. Exactly.
So yeah, those a bit more rug basically pieces.
So nice denims, cool boots also could work.
Leather boots of course leather boots are it's a bit tricky to
look cool because the leather boots will always be a bit more
big and, you know, stiff and so on.
I. Mean you have you can have
Chelsea boots also you can have boots like for example, I have
those boots Barbanera yeah OK they look pretty cool they're
they you can operate the clutch not clutch the the she the gear
shifter because they are very light they are very slim so they
are not chunky they are not bulky so you have control over
over the. Don't you feel it?
It's not painful then no the shifter because me I remember at
my bum wheel and it was quite stiff and if I had two thin
shoes it was uncomfortable at some point to shift.
Yeah, but a lot of guys, they are driving in sneakers.
Yeah, a lot of idiots are idiots, but no, I have those
very rough boots, Commando boots from what is this brand's red
Red Wings? Yeah, yeah.
But they are very, but they are very stiff.
Isn't it too hard to shift gears?
No, no, no. OK, I always wonder.
But they go quite high. It's cool with a pair of denims,
but that also the scene we are always talking about having
wider cuts and I maintain that for every garment.
But when you are having garments for motorcycle, especially for
the, you can have wider cuts on the upper part, especially
because you might want to wear some heavy knitwear and you need
your protections. So that's cool.
And you? Need to you know, the pants on
the bike you also sometimes needs to lean.
Forward, but the pants is something else.
I would say the pants you always it.
Depends, I said. It depends on the on the bike
because you sometimes you need to lean on the bike more so you
need to have more free movement. Yeah, exactly.
I would say that if for the upper part it it will always
kind of be better to have a bit of range movement on the lower
part you will need to have something that's a bit close to
your body. Yeah, that the the the paths
just are on the place. Yeah, exactly.
The paths and it's just more protective and you won't also
hang yourself on something. It's exactly that's the reason
why the cowboy shirt traditionally was tighter,
especially on the sleeves. It's because you don't want it
to hang on anything and you might just destroy it or get
hurt. So you need to have something a
bit tighter to your body on the lower part and I think it.
Looks cool that some machine will not grab the shirt exactly
take you with it. And for the then tied to
trousers here, since there's also pads, you look bigger so
you don't really look like with your skin legs, you look like
you went to the gym. And if you pair that with the
nice boots that goes high, it's quite cool.
But you know, you mentioned those, all those brands, but
there are also a few motorcycle brands like I don't know if you
know fuel. Yeah, yeah, they have really
nice. It's some kind of classic, but
also off road style. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, they are very cool. Bell stuff.
Also they have motorcycle. Lines More on the fashion.
But they have motorcycle lines. Yeah, yeah, they do.
But you have fuel. They have very cool pants,
actually. Also, yeah, that looks a big.
Cargo, Cargo, something like that.
That's very Steve McQueen style. Yeah.
And you can have old, old fashioned like Twin Africa, for
example, with white, red and blue color.
And they have clothes in in the same, in the same, in the same
column. Yeah.
That's very cool. Yeah, Yeah, I would usually, I
have also quite big and chunky boots.
So when I'm not wearing those ones, I have like motorcycle
actual boots looks chunkier, but it's just you feel more secure.
And also Dells brand those those.
I don't know about them. Yeah, there's a.
Brand. It's motorcycle brand, but they
also have leisure wear. That was ex Mahina.
Okay, yeah, I know I talked about it also before.
South Korean are quite good also with some cool brands.
So Ugly Bros is 1 very cool brand of denims.
They are not very expensive, but they are super protective.
There's some inner layer of Kevlar and they look cool even
outside the the motorcycle. So you can wear them when you
are jumping off your back and you won't look like a bozo.
So that that one are cool. It's something like that with
Sex Mahina, for example, a lot of those motorcycle brands, they
also have everyday lifestyle clothes so so you can show that
you're a motorcycle guy even outside your motorcycle.
Yeah. And they're one of the best
brands for helmets. Yeah, they are.
Had them. Had them.
Yeah, Italy.
Are very nice. Unfortunately they don't fit my
head because small is too small. Or wait a minute, it was maybe
I'm in between sizes OK and I can't find.
The perfect they're making. Very nice one without the flash.
Yeah, yeah. Open, open helmet.
Yeah, exactly. They they're really cool and you
can order even bespoke made. They are not cheap.
They're not. They're not cheap.
Because for example, right now I have next helmet, next garage
and they open face helmets, but they they are so big, my head
look like an alien. Yeah.
And this head on them then they are nicer because I just ride
Vespa, but I also ride in this helmet on motorcycles sometimes
I but yeah, I think maybe I should get a full, full face
helmet. Yeah, anyways, for the winter
it's a necessity, but also it's a matter of some protection.
I was wearing the. Sound level.
Exactly, I was wearing the iconic bell.
They look very cool, but the sound protection is.
Oh, Bell is really bad. Like they look.
Very cool. Yeah.
But that was deaf. What's what's the name of the
German helmet brand? Not Schumer.
I don't remember. They're, they're really cool.
Even their open helmets, they have this this thing going in
front of your face, so they so so your face is even covered
even when it's open. Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. It's like AU lock.
There's a brand like this that is called Sparks, I believe, and
they are making this type of helmet that are quite
minimalistic. But yeah, you always have this
protection even when they are open, which looks a bit like a
cross. Helmet, but it's very
minimalistic so it's barely visible.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Those are real cool.
And yeah, also, I would go for that even for the summer.
It's just more protective if you fall.
I remember when I had my accident, all my the face of my
helmet was completely broken, completely destroyed.
So if I didn't have the protection on the face, I
wouldn't have this pretty face today.
Yeah, I, I'm, I'm trying to find the the helmet brand.
They are not so pretty, but they are one of the most silenced
helmets. OK, Yeah.
Usually the more performance you get, the less aesthetical they
are. Yeah, they're just, they're just
pretty big. Yeah, you cannot really get it
all, but yeah, find it because then we need to talk about
motorcycles. Yeah, but you know, so.
OK, what motorcycle do you want to buy right now?
It's not Showy, but Showy is also very good brand.
Showy, they look good. Yeah, I had Showy.
Showy. Yeah, yeah, they are nice.
They are very good in terms of protection and also sound.
And, and I like, I like Schubert, those, those helmets,
Schubert German. German.
German Schubert. Yeah, Schubert is German.
They the the quietest helmets on on the market.
Yeah, yeah. But probably a bit big, right?
Yeah, they're pretty big. Shoe shoe is really, really
good. I had Shoei right now.
I think I will go with Heddon because they just look good.
I I can start. I think we were, we actually
talked about those motorbikes. I had some call UPS in in Warsaw
with BMW. I like BMW's but they are just
very expensive. The.
Air 19. Air 19.
Air 18 for example, the the big one with one and .8 liter engine
that's crazy. The bike was so big you need to
train legs. You even have reverse reverse
gear. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I think Triumph, yeah, I had call up with Moto Gutsy.
I like that they have. Card triumph, then.
I never rode triumph no, but I just dislike that there is with
chain because Moto gutsy they have card on shift and you don't
have to maintain no maintenance. Yeah, yeah, that's easier.
No, I had F800 which is a bit of an old BMW, but it was very
secure and very nice. This saved my life a few times.
And the Bonneville which was from early 2000 so we had very
nice sound. Sometimes it was just not
starting for some reason because they are a bit old.
Cool motorcycle, but it comes also with old school problems.
But yeah, a bit more this type of shape.
I have a good friend that add, I think the model is a tiger on
triumph, which is like very fast.
That's quite freaking cool though, You know, like you just
have to like for a second do this and jumping like a.
Sport bike, yeah, yeah, that's. Something about it though, but
on. Sport bikes I would like to have
just Ducati. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And that's the thing with motorcycle, it's not like car,
you cannot have 10,000 cars. But with the motorcycle you can
probably own two motorcycles that will be completely
different. Maybe one off road, one with the
CD or yeah, one that is fast and one that is a bit more casual.
But yeah, nowadays I'm more into tramp.
I mean, I've always loved tramp too much and and something that
is a bit more off road scrambler, Yeah, looks very
cool. Yeah, you were talking because
there are a few scramblers like I was thinking about scrambler
on Boneville and I think more classical it would be Boneville,
but I would just tune it some somehow and change some things.
But yeah, yeah, but that's the same.
I also would like to do some modification, custom it a bit
and make it a bit more myself. But also one cool motorcycle is
Ural, the Russian one with the side.
Yeah, the side. Yeah, exactly.
They're just too expensive. Would you like to have it with
the side? Yeah, yeah, exactly with because
you can take it. Off, but it's not.
It's not, yeah, it's not homology.
It doesn't have homologation without the side car.
Yeah. So you cannot drive it then.
That would be funny, but. They're not cheap.
The technology still from Second World War because it was copy of
BMW, Russian copy of BMW. But they are pretty cool.
Yeah, yeah, I. Mean, but not so useful, though
you still need to you are stuck in the traffic.
No, exactly. And that's also the thing.
We like the old cool stuff, but once you cannot drive your
motorcycle because it gets stuck for some reason or you are
because just doesn't want to start.
Like my Vespa, right? Now, yeah, exactly.
Or if you have a, it's nice when accident you're like maybe some
kind of technology is not Yeah. It's nice when you have ABS.
Yeah, exactly. That's that.
I would have got that on my 1. Wheel good, good, good brakes
that it starts that you don't need to figure out what's what's
happening. So it's nice that there are a
lot of classical or classical bikes that they look like they
are old, but they are very modern.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The like I'd say retro, retro
style restaurant, modern. Yeah, my favorite would be
Norton, but those are too expensive.
Royal Enfield also nice brand, Indian look, look cool.
Maybe the quality is lower than Triumph, much lower than BMW.
Yeah, they are pretty weak, but they look cool.
Yeah, exactly. But that's yeah, that's the
thing. Because looking cool is one
thing, but it's all about sensations, it's all about
feeling. So you might get.
That's also a thing. There's a lot when you get a
motorcycle, you usually change it.
It's very common to change your motorcycle every second, third
years because you just get tired of your motorcycle.
And I would say this type of motorcycle you will probably get
tired of because it looks cool, but.
It's a very little bit too small.
That was my impression when I drove Moto Gutsi, that the sound
was good because it's V great sound, but for example to go to
another city it was a bit too weak.
Too weak. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that's that is super important.
But yeah, usually that's what people do.
They just change motorcycle because in some part of your
life you want something different.
So you it's not like clothes that you want to keep for your
life month cycle. You, you will probably change
it. So just to wrap up a lot of
garments in menswear, they come from motorcycles.
Yeah, and a lot of icons were doing motorcycles.
So the way they were dressing, you know, you could feel that in
most of the things that they were dressing, the way they were
dressing, they could jump on a motorcycle and it would still
look cool, so. So we unlocked another character
in such a self podcast, Motorcycle Dude.
A new style that we need to cover how to look like a
motorcycle guy. Yeah, yeah, the gym bro.
We we haven't not really worked on that yet.
I was in tank top in wife beater one once.
To look like, you know, it's like those guys sometimes I see
some guys that are dressing up like old school Americana, so
with hoodies and all, and I'm like, that would look a bit more
stylish, but they still look like psychopaths to me.
Like I don't know. So looking meet with the with
gym clothes I I can abandoned. Just at the gym, Yeah.
Yeah. OK guys.
So that was very chill. Our episode was more about our
stuff that excite us. But if you guys have that would
be interesting. Also, are you riding motorcycles
or are you just trying scooters Those that.
Affected us pictures of your bikes and of your attires, and
maybe you. Yeah, your bike tells about you.
We wanna see that. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, Bikes tells more than a car, actually.
Yeah, exactly. It's like the dogs.
It tells about the owner, the dogs and the owner.
Because, you know, sometimes you're just forced to buy a
Volkswagen Passat or something similar.
But the. Motorcycle is.
Not the motorcycle. You don't need the motorcycle in
your life. It's just a toy.
Exactly. And you know with what?
What's the difference between boys and men?
Because toys for men are more expensive.
So basically show us our your toys or.
Yeah, show us your toys, pictures of your toys.
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