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tek8080

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42 LW Easy Ryder with a fair bit of wear on it. Note it looks like the half belt straps were cut off of it. $300 starting bid with a Make Offer option.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225395962632
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Will Zach said:
LW, 5 min to go. Check out this description.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1755894123...uid=Wqf9-B18Rf-&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

The benchmark LOST WORLDS rendering of the highly regarded J23 BUCO Horsehide Motorcycle Jacket from the old Joseph Buegeleisen Co. of Detroit. A remarkable, stunningly beautiful D-pocket Black Horsehide Motorcycle Jacket from the 1950s. Originals often command excessive sums on the vintage market.

Our J23 is made of the best Horsehide in the world, and not by a little, from our own US tannery (3.0 - 4.0+ Oz. customer preference). Inimitable LOST WORLDS authenticity, quality and workmanship. A lifetime purchase: Correct horsehide jackets routinely outlive their owners and are passed down as heirlooms. (Yes, there's as much difference between different makers' horsehide as between cars, people, galaxies!) There are some who think mere hype separates a $1950.00 jacket from cheaper jackets. Are a Carrera and Sienna (!) separated merely by hype (or testosterone)? Yet, we do believe that for some, many even, a cheaper, thinner, softer jacket might serve their needs better than ours. (Not to mention thinner, softer fashion replicas much more expensive than $1950.00 -- seriously!) Not everyone needs something like our dreadnought Buco J23. These are for a special kind of rider. The knowledgeable know from experience the extraordinary protection a LOST WORLDS Horsehide jacket can afford in potentially serious road mishaps. Our jackets are equipment, pure and simple, not fashion. If your bike sports safety and speed modifications yet you consider a jacket just a weather or fashion accessory, speak to real riders. They know.

Unlike weaker hides, genuine Lost Worlds Chrome-Tanned Horsehide never loses strength as it softens and molds to its owner. (Oh, yeah, originals were Vegetable-Tanned -- hilarious!) Ours doesn't whiten, bleed, mottle, "pull-up" if you look at it the wrong way or rub against a door frame. That's social media leather. The beauty and comfort of our hides increase with use and age without losing durability, incredible water repellency and protection -- why old manufacturers and riders always preferred Horsehide. (Yet even among originals variations in horsehide quality exist, the difference being that back then there were, generally, excellent and good hides, less crap. Today the field is MUCH narrower and, unsurprisingly, more duplicitous, i.e., cowhide being passed off to unwary as horsehide.) Incidentally, no original had tougher, heavier, more beautiful natural grain Horsehides than ours.
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Stu's right about most of it...though he does forget to mention that there is no leather on the planet more boring to look at. The black is ok but that russet brown is like staring into a dead eyed void... A wildly uninspired, clay colored, dog sh!t brown reminiscent of a furry friend that dropped one in June, right under that bush over there, discovered on your shoe in late August.
 

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tek8080

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Man when I first saw that J23 listed I thought for sure the bidding would take off a bit. Someone got a good deal. It was too small for me or I would have bid.
 
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ton312 said:
Stu's right about most of it...though he does forget to mention that there is no leather on the planet more boring to look at. The black is ok but that russet brown is like staring into a dead eyed void... A wildly uninspired, clay colored, dog sh!t brown reminiscent of a furry friend that dropped one in June, right under that bush over there, discovered on your shoe in late August.
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Bro, all I can say about that LW brown isssssssss........................................................wait for itttttt.....................................................................








"That's SOCIAL MEDIA Leather" LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Claybertrand said:
Bro, all I can say about that LW brown isssssssss........................................................wait for itttttt.....................................................................








"That's SOCIAL MEDIA Leather" LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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We should appropriate this expression at TFL as an ultimate insult - "That's social media leather"...;)
 
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ton312 said:
Stu's right about most of it...though he does forget to mention that there is no leather on the planet more boring to look at. The black is ok but that russet brown is like staring into a dead eyed void... A wildly uninspired, clay colored, dog sh!t brown reminiscent of a furry friend that dropped one in June, right under that bush over there, discovered on your shoe in late August.
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I'm not surprised a person like Stu would chose that particular shade of brown for his brown lather. It's just as plain, empty and uninspired.
The earlier stuff was nice, though!

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JMax

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I'm not surprised a person like Stu would chose that particular shade of brown for his brown lather. It's just as plain, empty and uninspired.
The earlier stuff was nice, though!

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There you go. I like my brown PJ27. It is a bit older jacket. Not sure it is all that different from the new but I haven’t seen it in person.

Stepping in dog shite is why I refuse to spend $1000 on boots lol.
 
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JMax said:
There you go. I like my brown PJ27. It is a bit older jacket. Not sure it is all that different from the new but I haven’t seen it in person.

Stepping in dog shite is why I refuse to spend $1000 on boots lol.
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I won't lie, I miss that vest... That was one of my favorite things I've had. Coincidentally, two out of five leather jackets that I considered my favorite were by LW.
 
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