Just wondering if anyone had ever purchased leathers of ebay ? i was looking at these ones :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260824575708

think they would be any good ?

for £170 there a bit of a bargain . . .

most of the other leathers i have looked at were about £170 just for the jacket plust another £110 for trousers

i recently bought there boots :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120648299017&category=122214&_trksid=p5197.c0.m619

and i must say, i am rather impressed with them and again, for the price WOW

Hi Matthew

Looks like somebody has had a whinge about the quality and left him bad feedback which seems a little unfair as his advert does clearly state that if you're not happy with the quality simply return them.

Just make sure that you pay with a credit card through paypal and you've got every base covered if they do turn out to be stinkers

Scott

Its a J&S retailer, part of a franchise-their stuff is 'fair' for the cost

EDIT-the boots are from a J&S retailer

the suit is not-its a bit loud ? -still looks a good price-wonder if Yamaha have endorsed the use of the name on it?

dunno

yer, buy it and give us your 'critique' on it

There is no mention of triple stitching or CE armour nor thickness of the leather. I would give them a miss.

The ad says 2 piece suites ha ha ha

Its a tarmac surf suit (suite) for £170-of course it aint got the re-assuringly expensive 'invincibility' add ons that you get on gear costing 3 times that much, you could make your own armour out of triple-ply milk cartons, would probably be as effective (IMHO)

  On 8/3/2011 at 6:30 PM, barkwindjammer said:

.........................you could make your own armour out of triple-ply milk cartons, would probably be as effective (IMHO)

I have. A bit smelly today though, to be honest.

Did you use staples to fix the 3 plys together or did you stitch them with stwing ?

Nail gunned to my bones. It will be fine when the wounds stop weeping.

A teaspoon of these in your bath

  On 8/3/2011 at 6:58 PM, barkwindjammer said:

A teaspoon of these in your bath

Bath! Is it January already?

Not for several moons yet

  On 8/3/2011 at 6:10 PM, barkwindjammer said:

Its a J&S retailer, part of a franchise-their stuff is 'fair' for the cost

EDIT-the boots are from a J&S retailer

the suit is not-its a bit loud ? -still looks a good price-wonder if Yamaha have endorsed the use of the name on it?

dunno

yer, buy it and give us your 'critique' on it

i didnt think it was that loud, compared to versions they do in blue, yellow and especially the red one . . . WOW . . . . . and probs not but, when i'm wearing it who's gonna know ?

have just bought it so fingers crossed, and will have an update as soon as i get it

  On 8/3/2011 at 6:10 PM, DirtyDT said:

There is no mention of triple stitching or CE armour nor thickness of the leather. I would give them a miss.

The ad says 2 piece suites ha ha ha

as for armour, i have an armour jacket which i will be wearing underneath

big box arrived for me today ! i am actaully rather impressed with them the leather doesnt look too bad, and it had a 5 piece CE approved armour protection set. Stitching also looks. only draw back is the jacket i got is to small.

Another set back i had is that they took a while to deliver to my address, as its highlands and island. But because of this, they have offered to pay the cost to return them think i might change design to this redbull one

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/gbr.store/m.html?_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A1%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A5251&rt=nc&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14.l1581&_pgn=2

....purely just so i dont look stupid when wearing them on another bike thats not a yamaha.