[dsn_klr650] nklr year 'round clothing

[Verle Nelson]

> I think Fred used to use Belstaff as well...I read recently (can't

remember

> wear [pun intended]) that the Belstaff stuff has accelerated in price and > weakened in quality as a result of it becoming "trendy"...I wear waxed > cotton Filson jackets all the time... > > Kurt

I think Fred wore Barbour http://www.highlandhiker.com/clothing/barbour.htm didn't you Fred? One of my riding buddies wears a Barbour for off-pavement riding. I wore Belstaff http://www.belstaffusa.com/jackets.htm off-pavement and in fact still do -- my third one in more than thirty years -- but I don't like the new one at all. Thinner cotton, less wax, just seems "cheaper" than I remember. Some Belstaffs now are made by Driza-Bone; I don't know if they own the company now or what. I believe the earlier (recent) post was referring to Belstaff Jackets of modern materials, rather than waxed cotton. If you search the web for Belstaff, you will discover that they are sold now in exclusive clothing shops, especially in Italy. Verle Nelson Cedaredge, CO

[Skip Faulkner]

  Bogdan, Gotta pack in SA?! Wow, maybe you should look into getting her a street sweeper if it is that bad down there (12 shot drum fed 12 gauge developed, made and sold   in SA)!   ................................>snip  Zack         Zack,       The Street Sweepers are the USA version of the "Striker", which is made for and used by the Rhodesian Army as a bush gun. They were outlawed for import to the U.S. so a company in Geargia bought rights to the gun, brought the tooling over here and started buiding a legal version ( the Striker has a 10" barrel) which they named the "Street Sweeper".  I sold these at my trading post when I lived in Alaska. They were popular as "boat guns". We lived on and traveled by river, so everyone carried a gun in their boat for bears. The first lot made had a nice feature which BATF put a quick stop to, the eight inch extension to make the barrel legal had a knurled nut which would screw off and shorten the barrel to 10". They caught this pretty quick and welded the knurl. I had six of those original ones.   Skip