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AGV Sport Onyx Pants(agvsportusa.com)While abstruse accessory has its place, sometimes I appetite to abrasion article a little beneath conspicuous, and the AGV Sport Onyx bolt pants fit the bill. They don’t accept huge cobweb panels or burden pockets, and the bland 600-denier polyester carapace has a beeline cut that fits carefully over boots, so they look acceptable commutual with abundant jacket styles and on assorted bike types. Four zippered vents in the thighs accessible for a bit of airflow (although I ambition the zipper pulls were a little smaller), making the Onyx best in abstinent to algid temperatures. A disposable waterproof/windproof Reissa liner can be bound ambiguous in. Hook-and-loop waist straps customize the fit, and amplitude panels at the knees acquiesce abundant accord to make them adequate alike on sportier bikes. As a accepted earplug loser, I also appreciate the zippered hip pockets. The Onyx pants are accessible in black, in women’s sizes XS-XL, for $149.
Ballistic EVO Power System(ballistic-batteries.com)
The EVO Power Arrangement from Ballistic Performance Components is a complete, failing lithium-ion starter array arrangement with everything required to charge, advance and monitor the EVO3 Battery, which is available in 30 altered combinations of size, capacity and terminal location. The lithium-ion (LiFePO4) array weighs a few ounces vs. several pounds for typical AGM or abounding batteries, and if fitment isn’t identical to banal it generally only requires a few shims. The EVO Power Arrangement additionally comes with a Ballistic Optimate 1 Lithium Charger, a fully automatic array charger designed to charge, optimize and advance the Ballistic EVO Battery. It’s safe for 24/7 long term, unsupervised array care, and plugs appropriate into the EVO Health Monitor for accessible charging. The Health Monitor mounts alfresco the battery box and gives the user “at a glance” LED break of the array condition. Pricing varies by array model.
Bell Star Helmet(bellhelmets.com)
Bell’s Star helmet has been around since 1967, and the latest iteration promises to accompany race-level performance to the “everyday rider.” The Tri-Matrix blended carapace is made of a proprietary alloy of aramid (the same being that Kevlar is fabricated out of), carbon cilia and fiberglass for light weight and strength. The “Panovision” shield boasts a beyond acreage of eyes for better afterimage in a tucked position and quicker, safer lane-change arch checks. The liner is alloyed with argent fibers, inhibiting advance of bacilli and fungi, but it can still be removed and handwashed like accustomed liners. In fact, the magnetic cheekpads are acutely easy to abolish and reinstall. The absorber is our alone nitpick; we ambition it had more detents—it has alone two positions, open and closed. Otherwise, though, the Bell Star is a comfortable, lightweight (our admeasurement baby weighs in at 3 lbs., 8 oz.), adequately quiet lid. It is available in two solid colors and eight graphics, starting at $449.95.
BMS No-Wait GS Saddles(billmayer-saddles.com)
BMW’s newer liquid-cooled R 1200 GS and GS Adventure models are some of the best bikes the company has anytime made, with the barring of their afflictive banal seats. Bill Mayer Saddles can body a custom seat for about any motorcycle or scooter, but its GS/GSA LC seats are special because BMS articles its own custom bench pans to fit the bike, so you have the best of befitting your stock seat. You acquaint BMS things like your height, weight, benumbed position and style and adeptness to the ground, and Bill “Rocky” Mayer will appearance your custom seat from a bare with one of bristles different foam densities. Rocky anchored our neighbor actuality at Accession HQ up with one of his R 1200 GS LC seats, and he says the bench looks and feels absolutely differently from banal and he’s now able to put in 8-plus hour canicule on the bike in comfort. Pricing starts at $599 in vinyl and $749 in leather.
Fly Apex Covering Jacket(flyracing.com)You can’t exhausted covering for abrasion resistance, and it absolutely looks cool—especially in black—but covering can be abstract for touring. Fly’s Apex Leather Anorak is advised to accomplish the protective allowances of cowhide easier to live with. For ventilation, the 1.2-1.4mm top grade, boom absolute cowhide is perforated on the front, aback and arms, and the disposable aback protector is additionally perforated. For affluence of movement, there’s breathable, 500-denier amplitude nylon on the accoutrements and abandon of the anatomy as well as accordion-style amplification panels at the accept and elbow. For protection, in accession to the aback protector, there’s removable, CE-approved armor at the shoulders and elbows, as able-bodied as rigid plastic and titanium alien armor on the shoulders. For abundance and convenience, it appearance abundant sides, a removable wind- and water-resistant insulated belong liner, full-circumference and 8-inch jacket-to-pants zippers, a microfiber comfort collar and two external handwarmer pockets and one internal pocket. The Apex is accessible in atramentous or white, in men’s sizes XS-5XL, for $349.95.
Fly FL-2 Gauntlet Gloves(flyracing.com)
We ask a lot of motorcycle gloves. They should be comfortable, durable and accommodate acceptable protection, yet they shouldn’t baffle with our faculty of feel on the handlebars nor our adeptness to use the clamp and anchor levers with precision. Fly’s FL-2 Gauntlet Gloves analysis all of those boxes, additional they accept special touchscreen-compatible bond on the tip of anniversary basis feel for easy Instagram posts. Fabricated with a durable goatskin approach with Kevlar bond and a cowhide shell, the FL-2 Gauntlets also have adamantine artificial approach and address sliders, leather accretion panels in the palm, deride and sides, and appulse foam in key areas. Perforated covering panels and assimilation vents on the duke and back-of-hand protector for ventilation allow hot calmly to breath, and precurved fingers and amplification gussets at the abject of the fingers and aback of the knuckles accomplish them all-day comfortable. A bifold cease arrangement with a wrist cinch band and ample gauntlet closure fasten them deeply on the rider’s hands. Accessible in assorted colors in sizes S-3XL for $99.95.
Forcefield Abject and Tornado Mid Layers(motonation.com)
Forcefield Body Armor pioneered bendable armor technology, but it additionally offers armor against the calefaction and cold. Its snug-fitting Base Band shirts and pants for men and women are fabricated from BeCool, a four channel cilia that has a deviating area up to three times greater than cotton, so Forcefield says its acts like a fan, forcing the skin’s hot and boiling air against the outer band of the bolt while allowing cool and dry air to circulate. A seamless and collapsed bond architecture insures that the bolt doesn’t rub or chafe, and its antibacterial aspect maintains freshness. Although it seems counterintuitive to add layers aback it’s hot, assurance us, this stuff absolutely does act like air conditioning.
For amore and a looser fit Forcefield’s Tornado Mid Layers are fabricated of windproof and thermal Defender bolt and antibacterial Thermolite, which blocks airflow yet charcoal breathable, warm and comfortable, alike aback wet. Flat seams and a bendable lining accumulate the Tornado shirts and trousers comfortable. Pricing ranges from $64 to $89.
GoGo Accessory Protective Leggings(gogogearla.com)Our Senior Editor’s wife Carrie accurately adheres to ATGATT, but for years she has struggled to find benumbed pants that action protection, comfort and form-fitting style. On a recent motorcycle bout addition woman raved about her GoGo Accessory Protective Leggings, so Carrie approved them out. Made of a abiding 95-percent cotton, 5-percent Spandex alien band and a highly abrasion-resistant 95-percent Kevlar, 5-percent Spandex close layer, the GoGo Gear leggings accept disposable CE Level 1 knee armor and central pockets for optional hip protectors. Aback she put them on for the aboriginal time, she beamed a advanced smile and said, “They fit like regular pants!” The 5-percent Spandex allows them to stretch, so there’s no binding at the achievement aback sitting or getting on or off the bike, and there are no buttons or snaps to dig into skin. And aback they fit Carrie like a glove, the armor is absolutely area it needs to be for optimal knee protection. They’re available in atramentous in women’s sizes 2-24 (see website for able sizing) for $149.
Olympia AirGlide Jacket(olympiamotosports.com)Our armory of cobweb accoutrement has completely changed our attitudes about warm-to-hot acclimate riding. Alike when it’s 100-plus F we no best abhorrence the heat, and our weapons of best are often Olympia’s AirGlide anorak and pants. Now in its fifth generation, the Airglide 5 anorak is complete of 500-denier Cordura and cobweb panels, with a cool mesh airflow lining. Air flows so well it’s like not cutting a anorak at all, yet the ballistic cobweb panels in the high abrasion areas and CE-approved Motion Flex armor in the elbows, amateur and back accommodate aegis from the fall. A 2-stage, wind and waterproof Thermolite insulated rain anorak seals out the weather and can be beat beneath or over the jacket, and bristles accumulator pockets and an autogenous corpuscle buzz abridged authority your essentials. The women’s AirGlide 5 has all the aforementioned appearance with a balanced cut and style, and both men’s and women’s pants are analogously complete and easily hemmed for length. Anorak colors are black, ivory, red or high-viz in men’s sizes M-4XL and women’s S-3XL for $289.99.
Pit Bull Stands(pit-bull.com)
When your motorcycle lacks a centerstand it absolutely complicates chain aliment and annoy changes. Although Pit Bull offers a advanced variety of rear stands and advanced stands to fit specific motorcycle models, around the Accession boutique we bare a universal model that will lift the rear ends of lots of altered bikes. The Pit Bull SS Rear Angle can be acclimated as a standard or spooled rear angle by flipping the top supports over, and adjusts to fit best double-sided spooled and non-spooled swingarms (with a few exceptions that are acutely listed on the website—be abiding to watch George’s video). We’ve approved it on several different bikes now and it pops ’em appropriate up, admitting we recommend having a abettor abiding the bike while you’re appropriation until you get the hang of it. Pit Bull stands are anchored by hand, congenital to aftermost always and come with a lifetime warranty. The SS Rear Stand is $159.95 and the alternative rear handle goes for $10.
Strider Antithesis Bike(striderbikes.com)
Is there a toddler or tot in your life that could be a approaching motorcyclist? Get them started aboriginal and calmly with a Strider no-pedal antithesis bike. Aback our benumbed buddy’s son, Auggie, turned 18 months, we got him a Strider 12 Sport in ablaze red (and a size-adjustable helmet with a air-conditioned stars-and-stripes paint job), and he took to it like a fish to water. Accessible to accumulate and durable as a hammer, the Strider is perfect for kids up to 4-5 years of age. The 12 Sport has a animate frame, puncture-proof tires that crave no maintenance and height-adjustable bench and handlebars that don’t require tools. Improved ergonomics include built-in footrests, a bedlam seat, minigrips tailored for baby calmly and a cushy handlebar pad. Weighing just 6.7 pounds, the Strider 12 Sport’s seat height ranges from 11 to 19 inches and fits accouchement with inseams from 12 to 20 inches. It’s accessible in a advanced range of colors for $119.99 with chargeless shipping.
Rok Straps(rokmotostraps.com)
Once aloft a time, there were bungees and there were straps. Then along came a admirable apparatus that combined the best of both: Rok Straps. Rok Straps accept two parts: a stretchy flat band with a bend at one end, and a approved nylon band that additionally has a loop at one end. Simply attach each loop end to the bike or luggage, buckle them calm and cull the nylon end tight. Because they appear in multiple lengths and won’t accident your bike’s finish, Rok Straps are acutely versatile and can be acclimated to attach just about anything. For example, we used them to arise a Nelson-Rigg duffel to the aback bench of our long-term Africa Twin on a three-night camping trip. Then, afterwards ambience up camp and bottomward our luggage, we acclimated them to band on a ample amount of firewood to booty aback to the campsite. Rok Straps appear in assorted widths/lengths; the 5/8-inch by 42-inch sizes is $18/pair and the 1-inch by 60-inch admeasurement is $25/pair.
Tour Master Sentinel 2.0 Rain Suit(tourmaster.com)In my book, rain apparel should accumulate you dry, but they should additionally be conspicuous (read: high-viz), and there are bonus credibility for abbreviation clamminess. Tour Master’s Sentinel 2.0 rain suit checks all three of those boxes. The jacket and pants are both absolutely seam sealed and are MVM 5000 rated for breathability. The anorak appearance 3M Scotchlite cogitating brim and Tour Master’s signature triangles for visibility, a patented Aqua-Barrier underhelmet hood that prevents baptize from dripping bottomward your collar and stows into the collar aback not in use, large waterproof pockets and several vents that acquiesce balmy air to exit. The pants feature a polyester cobweb lining, a jacket-to-pants attachment and under-boot loops to keep them in place. Pro tip: blooper a plastic bag over your cossack afore affairs the pants on—that way it won’t bolt on the cobweb liner. The Sentinel 2.0 anorak is available in four colors in men’s sizes XS-3XL (up to 5XL in black) for $99.99, and the Sentinel 2.0 pants are accessible in black in men’s sizes XS-5XL and women’s sizes XS-XL for $77.99.
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