An attack of roadiness

[hirez]

The nice people at Foska sent me one of these this morning (Only ordered yesterday AM. Remarkable), and a very nice thing it is too.

So if anyone else is planning on swanning about Whitby similarly attired, please let me know so we may co-ordinate and thus avoid Fashion Disaster. (Although avoiding Fashion Disaster properly would involve avoiding Whitby entirely, but I'm talking context and relative values here.)

Comments

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Allow me to be the first to say

Arrr!

in a piratical tone.

Unless it's already too late, of course, which I expect it is.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

When do you get the fully-fledged Pirate jacket?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I believe I already have it. If you mean the insanely technical garment currently hanging off the back of my chair.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ta. Given the reflective nature of the printing, it's going to be impossible to photograph. Result!

[amanda-pink.livejournal.com]

Careful when you stick yer cutlass into your belt ;)

[amanda-pink.livejournal.com]

Of course, the other reply could've been:

I didn't know you were a Raiders fan :D

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

It's the black strip, innit. Goffick as yer like.

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Maybe you should detach the sleeves and reattach them with giant safety pins.

Oh, wait. That only works, really, if you wear a cowboy shirt, black glasses, and a buzz cut.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

IIRC, that was a Cyberdog item.

I've got some Dane clothing, but that's so last decade.

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

I never knew there was 'pirate training' beyond greasing the peg boy…

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I could mount a very small cannon on the handlebars.

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

Tricky thing Johnny muzzle-loader, especially as you would be needing grapeshot for pedestrians and ball for vehicles.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... And a harpoon for buses.

(They set upon buses in Southmead. Presumably the natives believe them's good eatin')

[silentq.livejournal.com]

Sweet!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It really is very nice.

It'll be Audax malarkey next. I can't think where that idea came from...

[jendama.livejournal.com]

I think it suits you wonderfully. I like that it is not the typical pirate garb that hangs down to the knees like everyone else and their third cousin owns these days.

I found part of the supplier's description most hilarious:

Enough to make you visible to even the dimmest motorist.

So it will make you visible to half-witted people with cars? ;P

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Werl, guv. It's a cycling garment first and a 'pose around a bit and wallop the people who stab it with a lit tab' garment second. In that the pockets are all in the back and it's cut a bit longer in the rear and the arms.

I suspect I'll look like a member of Kraftwerk gone horribly wrong.

Some people just won't see cyclists, even if they're beating lumps out of the car with the heavy end of a U-lock. Especially if. I'm strongly considering an air-horn in order to give a dose of brown trousers to the dozy bastards. It's wilful pig-ignorance.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

There's a bike I'd see at the Manchester Garundia with a proper bona fide airhorn[1] strapped to its handlebars. I'm continually tempted, too. That and the Yale bar-ends.

Foska rock my little cotton socks. I have the 'Spinal Tap' jacket, which is great. I'm shocked at how warm it is.

And as ne fule kno, Pride tastes better from a branded bike bottle.





[1]Rather than one of those inflatable bottle things.

[jendama.livejournal.com]

The rechargeable one looks a bit interesting: http://www.bonthronebikes.co.uk/391-0

Though, to get a big sound weight of the unit could be an issue. I guess it depends upon how concerned you are with added weight to your bike frame.

Good luck!