How Motorcycle Protective Gear Is Made?

 

 

 

What You Know About Motorcycle Protective Gear May Keep You Alive?

 

Leather Motorcycle Jacket:

 

Start with the best cowhides from America, tanned to company specifications. It takes 11 hides that are tanned to match each other by both color and grain to create each jacket.
The hides go to the cutting room where professional cutters cut 40 individual pieces for each jacket. The cut pieces then go to the sewing room where the smaller pieces are sewn together, pockets, belts, and collars.
To make for natural movement, football-shaped pieces of leather are sewn into the armpits. The jacket has an extra piece of leather sewn into the back attached with strips of elastic to easily stretch forward. All the smaller parts, including the zippers, are sewn together, leaving a jacket body without sleeves.
Then the sleeves are sewn in place, with the jacket turned inside-out. A quilted lining is sewn into the jacket while it is still inside-out. The jacket is turned right-side-out and made ready to ship. When it comes to your choice get Armor Leather Motorcycle Jacket or 4 Season Motorcycle Jacket and become a trendsetter.

The Helmet:

 

Helmets made to protect the rider from severe brain injury in a motorcycle accident.

Outershell

 

This thin hard outer shell of the helmet is made from Kevlar, polycarbonate plastic, or fiberglass.
The outer shell forms a protective barrier around the softer, foam of the inner lining and must perform two functions:

·         Protect the skull from puncture by preventing penetration of sharp objects into the helmet.

·         Prevent the disintegration of the inner liner upon striking hard, rough pavement.

Fiberglass, along with Kevlar and carbon fiber, makes for a lighter helmet. Not only does the outer shell have to be impact resistant, but it also has to compress on impact with hard objects to disperse energy.

Inner Lining

 

The inner liner made from expanded EPS foam is thick enough to prevent the head from hitting the outer shell upon impact. The inner foam lining needs to be 1-2 inches thick to allow for head movement and not be too uncomfortable.
Comfort padding of soft foam goes between the head and inner liner wrapped in a soft cloth. The strap, to keep the helmet on a rider's head. You do not want your helmet coming off during an accident, fasten the chin strap snugly every time you ride.

The Motorcycle Boot: Protect Your Toes.

 

Motorcycle boots designed to keep a rider's feet safe. The boot starts with a designer drawing the boot on paper, a new design in motorcycle foot safety. The drawing loaded into a computer to create a pattern of the boot.

Making Process

 

Once the features are set according to what the designer wants, the specs are sent to a special cutter that cuts the boot pattern into a hard fiber substance. The rigid pattern is then laid out on a sheet of leather, and the design is then cut into the leather.
The pieces of leather that will make one boot are sent to the sewing room and sewn together. Before the stitching begins the edges of the leather pieces are compressed or flattened to form smooth seams.
Then the leather pieces are sewn together to make the top portion of the boot without the sole. Before the sole is attached to the boot, a solid plastic form is placed inside the bottom of the boot.

Features

 

The boot instep is heated to fit over the foot form and stretched to fit the inner sole. The upper boot is glued to the sole, excess leather is stretched over the sole and stuck to it. Then the glue is put on the bottom of the inner sole and sent to another station where the outer sole is glued to the bottom of the boot.
Heat is applied to make the sole stick very tight to the bottom of the boot. The boot is run through a cooler to harden the glue and cool things down. Once the boot is out of the cooler, a worker removes the form from inside the boot.

Then another sole is attached by nails and sent on to have the toe slider added to the boot by using screws. The motorcycle boot is now ready to box up and sent to the market.

Now that you know how they're made, it will be easy to hop onto Wicked Stock and get the motorcycle protective gear that best suits your needs.

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History of Motorcycle Helmets

 

 

History of Motorcycle Helmets

The motorcycle is the most dangerous vehicle ever invented. It is not enclosed as cars and trucks are, you sit on top of the machine protected only by what you are wearing. The first motorcycles were bicycles with gasoline washing machine engines attached to them. 

There was even a steam-powered Velocipede, invented by one Sylvester H. Roper in 1867. Loosely considered the first motorcycle if the definition can be adjusted to include a coal-fired steam engine. Sadly, Roper was killed in 1896 due to an accident while riding his velocipede.

In the next decade or so, dozens of self-propelled bicycles came and went.

            

"Look, Ma, no helmet."  Early 1900s MC riders

In the early days, there were no Leather Motorcycle Jackets or Leather Motorcycle Pants for Men. In 1885 two Germans, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, developed the Petroleum Reitwagon, using a four-stroke Internal-Combustion Engine. This moment in history, the marriage of the gasoline engine and the bicycle was complete; the motorcycle was born.

Harley Davidson Motorcycle Company launched in 1903 by William Harley and Arthur and Walter Davidson, is still in business today manufacturing only motorcycles. In the early days of the self-propelled bicycle, speed was not an issue, the steam-powered bikes ran at speeds around 12 miles per hour.
They didn’t go all that fast, no one gave any thought to wearing a helmet for protection.

If it has a motor, someone will make it go faster and challenge someone else to a race. One of the first motorcycle races, the Tourist Trophy (TT) was sponsored by Great Britain on the Isle of Man In 1906.
Many early motorcycle riders wore skull caps made of leather and lined with fur, concussions, and severe head injuries were common. Not only that but, the discerning motorcyclist did not have access to Textile Men Motorcycle Jackets or Textile Men Motorcycle Pants.

Only After a Tragedy

In 1935, Britain's beloved T. E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia) was killed in a motorcycle accident. He ran his motorcycle off the road to avoid an obstacle, tipped his bike over and struck his head on a hard object.
Lawrence was in a coma for six days, finally died, his death was a turning point in motorcycle helmet safety. The attending physician, Hugh Cairns, realized something had to be done, and he eventually published a report documenting the need for crash helmets.
The report, “Head Injuries In Motorcyclists, the importance of the crash helmet.” convinced the British government to make helmets mandatory for military motorcycle riders.

T. E. Lawrence, Before the Fatal Accident. No Helmet

Later, wearing a motorcycle helmet became the law in Britain, and the rest of the world soon followed.

Laws Come and Go

 

In the United States the Highway Safety Act of 1966, required all the US states to enact mandatory helmet laws.

Due to the mandatory helmet laws motorcycle death rates in the US dropped by 40% but, nothing lasts forever. As a result of many court battles over the mandatory helmet law, in the mid-1970s, the law was repealed.
Now, less than half of the states in the US have mandatory helmet laws for all riders and many states apply helmet laws to underage riders. Out of all this bickering between the states and the US government, all motorcycle helmets have six essential characteristics:

• The outer shell is impact resistant.
• To absorb impact, the inner liner must be thick and soft.
• Protective padding.
• Face shield or visor.
• A ventilation system for cooling.
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Double D ring snap, chin strap, a retention system to keep the helmet on during an accident.

Modern Day Motorcycle Safety Helmet

While deciding on the safest helmet for your ride consider wearing Motorcycle Leather Gloves for Men complimented by Motorcycle Leather Vests.

That’s all

 

Over time, many countries have mandated motorcycle riders to wear protective gear besides the helmet to reduce injuries from motorcycle accidents. Protective gear like jackets, gloves, pants, and boots all designed for the safety of the rider.

This protective gear is made from materials like Kevlar, carbon fiber, Cordura, textiles, and mesh, to name a few. For that best-dressed rider, look show up wearing one of many stylish Leather Motorcycle Riding Suits.
Motorcycling has come a long way since the steam-driven cycles of yesteryear. The path has been rough and rocky at best but, today, motorcycle riding could not be safer for those who take to the open road. To get the safest motorcycle gear available go to Wicked Stock and order the protective equipment, you will need to stay safe in the saddle.

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