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[dsn_klr650] year 'round clothing (nklr)
Posted: Wed May 10, 2000 9:06 am
by 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
[dsn_klr650] nklr year 'round clothing
Posted: Thu May 11, 2000 8:03 am
by 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