That helps a lot explaining it to me, thank you. I understand a whole bunch more now haha Yeah, I don’t plan on going broke and buying all sorts of expensive gear only to find out that I didn’t really need it after all or it didn’t work out the way I needed it to, etc. That would just plain suck.
Since I will just be riding around the neighborhood for a while after getting my bike, I’ll probably just stick with mesh (armored mesh, like the Joe Rocket ShannonG mentioned earlier) until I’m ready to graduate to busier and faster roads. Until then, I’ll just get some good, sturdy boots, a pair of leather gloves (I’ve seen a pair that looked pretty good for cheap, yay for closeout items!), a full face helmet and armored mesh jacket and pants. I guess I’ll wait on the waterproof/water resistant gear until winter hits because until then, Utah gets absolutely no rain
That’s really weird about your leather jacket being less water resistant than your mesh one. You’d think that mesh, being the loose woven fabric you described it as, would get soaked pretty quickly while leather, being tanned animal skin, would be almost completely waterproof, although I’m not surprised the mesh dries quickly. Hmm…
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And our freedom is consuming itself
What we will become is contrary to what we want
Take a bow
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