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    I Really Like This Jacket

    Like my father, I'm not a millionaire. I just live like one.
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    I Really Like This Jacket

    Thanks for the pix IXL. I like the way the back belt isn't at all faux. I'll show this pic to Alan and see if we can do the side belts with a more organic nature. The back portion of the side belt will be part of the "half belt" in back. Me likee (I theenk). BTW, a lot of that Real McCoy...
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    I Really Like This Jacket

    Very interesting.. I love the button idea. THIS BOARD IS GREAT!!! But presumably you still have the side belts. Wouldn't they interfere? I saw a jacket where there were two adjustment belts on each side. They could go above and below a little; but functionality has to come first, so...
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    I Really Like This Jacket

    I'm just getting over a pain in the neck away from ordering a Long Half Belt from Johnson's, so obviously I've been thinking along those lines when I came across this pic. I'd file it under "too much of a good thing" in that I think it would have to be so long to justify the belt that it would...
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    Just Received My New Jacket from Johnsons Leather! (sort of)

    When I went in I said to Alan, as many other have, that the website doesn't do him justice and he said that this year they were going to really update it. As I've been talking to him on the phone about a new jacket that I'm about to pull the trigger on, I kid him (on the square) that when he...
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    Is a Half-Belt a Good Motorcycle Jacket?

    I had a Bonneville that I rode in 1967-1967 but it was stolen, which probably saved my life. In those days I rode without a helmet. To each his own; but the thought makes me cringe.
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    Need Advice on Non-Zip Cuff for New Bike Jacket

    I give up. I'm definitely going with the zip and putting it out for discussion really helped me a lot. Thanks to all.
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    Anyone use jackets/clothing to help quit smoking?

    I'll bet a lot of guys bought themselves a jacket as a reward for getting thin. If anybody's interested: I quit smoking using Banaca peppermint breath spray. Every time I felt the urge, I gave myself about twenty shots and it totally broke the stimulus/response of cigarettes while giving me...
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    New Aero A-2

    A friend of mine once said, "If you friends do something, either you do it or you get new friends." Point being after finding this board I had to get an A2 and I wound up with a LW. I wanted a "military fit" and I got it. I don't think it's a size too small; but I have to admit that it...
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    Need Advice on Non-Zip Cuff for New Bike Jacket

    I don't mind saying that I was all hot to talk to Alan and thrash this all out with him; but the more people say, "go with the zip," the more likely I am to do just that. I will pay attention to the diameter of the cuffs when the zip is closed and go for tighter than when I got the "stock"...
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    Need Advice on Non-Zip Cuff for New Bike Jacket

    Do you really think D-rings, like on the Lost Worlds pictured, would slip? I find it hard to believe that LW would employ a solution that didn't work. Beside that, Alan at JL uses them on the side belts of his jackets, I'm sure.
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    Need Advice on Non-Zip Cuff for New Bike Jacket

    Long story short: I'm ready to order from JL and have decided on everything but the cuff. It would be easy to go with zippers; but I don't like long arms, so I think I'll be wearing gauntlets and zippered cuffs for tucking gloves in aren't really necessary. (And, without them, I think the coat...
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    Is a Half-Belt a Good Motorcycle Jacket?

    Yikes! I do wear an armored Vanson Teton I'd say 50% of the time; but when I'm going out to lunch, shopping, library, or something else that involves walking etc. at the destination, I like something lighter and less Michelin Man-like. Of course, if someone decides to turn into me on an...
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    Is a Half-Belt a Good Motorcycle Jacket?

    Thanks for the heads-up. I'm going to have Johnson Leather build it so it's no problem to add the wind-flap. I have a Vespa so I'm going to go for about 26" in back, which will just reach the seat. It would probably be too long in front except I'll get a 2 way zipper.
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    New Aero Long Half-Belt

    I'm thinking of getting that exact same jacket as my non-armored colder weather scootering coat. I'd get a two way zipper in front and either zip sleeves or straps like on an Aero Route 66.
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    New Aero A-2

    I don't get the whole pit to pit thang. I think it's usually your chest size plus four inches. So if you have a 40' chest, the pit to pit is 22. A tailor measured my chest and said it was 39". Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I just got a new LW A2 and it's a 40 and the pit to pit measures 23"...
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    Is a Half-Belt a Good Motorcycle Jacket?

    There are so many variables involved it can really drive you nuts, and it's a gas to get something made "just so." I'm probably only going to do just one more "project" so I want to do this righteously. As far as the Teton goes: I don't really think of it as a jacket, it's more a piece of...
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    Is a Half-Belt a Good Motorcycle Jacket?

    I sold an Enfield that was 26 down the back and I still have a Teton that's 29 and I can sit on the leather in back. It's a great jacket but sometime I don't want to be the Michelin Man when I get where I'm going. I totally need the two-way zipper with the Teton and wished I'd had it with the...
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    Is a Half-Belt a Good Motorcycle Jacket?

    It seems like a trade-off. I'd gain a little extra leather down my tailbone maybe, but you don't have the body heat retaining seal at the waist like on a Highwayman. I always feel like the open bottom sort of acts like an air-scoop.
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    Just Received My New Jacket from Johnsons Leather! (sort of)

    Unreal jacket. Good luck and wear it in the best..... Let us know when the bug hits you again. If you're a working stiff, it's late. P.S. I've never seen cuffs like that. What's the story?

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