The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

[Skub]

Loop Experience 2 ear plugs (snaffled on Prime Day for £25)

I've never got on with foamies, and I'm honestly too lazy to faff with fitting my expensive moulded ear plugs for short runs, plus they make my ears ache after a while

These are a revelation - an absolute piece of piss to fit, really comfortable, and seem to be great quality too, and therefore I will actually use them

I began using Loop a while back when my usual jobbies started hurting after a while. There's a definite technique to get them seated right,but once learned they are great.

[Pirahna]

Loop Experience 2 ear plugs (snaffled on Prime Day for £25)

I've never got on with foamies, and I'm honestly too lazy to faff with fitting my expensive moulded ear plugs for short runs, plus they make my ears ache after a while

These are a revelation - an absolute piece of piss to fit, really comfortable, and seem to be great quality too, and therefore I will actually use them

Are you saying you don't actually wear ear plugs on a motorcycle?

Mostly. Unless I'm actually touring.

You know how you wear stuff like a helmet and gloves in case you crash, there is no "in case" with ear plugs. If you don't use them hearing damage is a certainty.

[Sunny]

Are you saying you don't actually wear ear plugs on a motorcycle?

Mostly. Unless I'm actually touring.

You know how you wear stuff like a helmet and gloves in case you crash, there is no "in case" with ear plugs. If you don't use them hearing damage is a certainty.

That's why I bought some new earplugs

[ZRX61]

You'll never find your keys again.

Funny that you mention that...

[asmethurst99]

My new lid. Its a thousand times more comfortable than my Bell MX-9 and about 2 stone lighter too!

Damm you …I’ve been looking at itchy boots one …now I’ve got to investigate

[Taipan]

My new lid. Its a thousand times more comfortable than my Bell MX-9 and about 2 stone lighter too!

Damm you …I’ve been looking at itchy boots one …now I’ve got to investigate

Twas a bargain from these fine people! https://atmotocross.com/products/airoh- ... ure-helmet

[Rockburner]

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Spotted at an antique fair i was dragged into on Sunday.

£15 for cash, hopefully will be useful for the myriad threads on the JAPton.

[Noggin]

A spiffy keyfob with a 10mm reversible ratchet doodad...

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You'll never find your keys again.

TBF, I've always got 10mm spanners/ratchets to hand - but the sockets

Loop Experience 2 ear plugs (snaffled on Prime Day for £25)

I've never got on with foamies, and I'm honestly too lazy to faff with fitting my expensive moulded ear plugs for short runs, plus they make my ears ache after a while

These are a revelation - an absolute piece of piss to fit, really comfortable, and seem to be great quality too, and therefore I will actually use them

I began using Loop a while back when my usual jobbies started hurting after a while. There's a definite technique to get them seated right,but once learned they are great.

I've only not tried Loop cos I've seen that there's a 'knack'. I had loads of issues with foam jobbies before I had a not working arm, the thought of arguing with anything while using my dodgy arm long enough to learn the 'knack' totally put me off !!

My moulded ones generally go in fine even with the spazzy arm - they do need replacing but as I didn't use them this year, I've put off getting replacements !!!

[MingtheMerciless]

New Camera , Fujifilm X100VI, I had to wait a few months for stock to arrive but it turned up last week. My first proper camera for a few decades so lots of reading up on how digital has moved on and what the myriad of buttons and software functions do. Thankfully a few pro’s have setup guides which has helped.

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[Dodgy69]

Yum yum.

[KungFooBob]

Yum yum.

Too good for Septics!

[Dodgy69]

Healthy eaters in they.

[Yorick]

The missus just brought me these back from UK

Don't ever wear any bike related gear. But like these
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[Tricky]

An Insta360 camera- one of these, an X4 (one model back from the latest, but still current) , £349 from Amazon inc lens guards and a soft case.


https://www.insta360.com/product/insta360-x4

Anyone who's read the latest update to my racing thread will have already have heard me bang on about it, but the functionality and relative ease of use has blown me away- for anyone who's never seen one before, it's a camera with two x near 180 degree vision lenses, and some clever firmware/software that stitches the images together and removes selfie sticks etc if you're using one, meaning that you really do film all around you, which to my mind, if you are using it on a bike, largely negates having both a front and rearward facing camera, you just need one of these , pointing in pretty much any direction you like.
It captures everything and you then choose which direction you want shown in your film from the editing app, by simply either turning your phone/tablet around to the angle you want, or if you don't want to walk around the room/ move your arm to do it, just by moving your finger on the screen in the direction you want to show, it really couldn't be a lot simpler .

I used for the first time on my Bandit at the weekend, just screwing it on to this cheapo ( £10 ) eBay handlebar mount, I've also got a combined selfie stick/tripod that I'll use it on when it's not on a bike.




This is my very first attempt with it ,I recorded it in the default setting of 5.7k/60fps, and when I watch it back on the ipad or laptop from the edited file ( which is ~2G in size for a 20 min vid) , the quality is , to me, stunning. and it's still pretty good IMO from this massively compressed (to 60Mb) and reduced quality for YouTube





Anyway, is early days for me with it yet, time will tell how robust it is, but so far, I am very impressed - highly recommended

Well, I'm amending this rec- my first one failed with the spring in the battery compartment that allows it to be removed breaking within a month or so, and throwing up a " battery anomaly" error.
Credit to Insta360, support (bought through Amazon but the support is direct with Insta360 China) were excellent, no quibble replacement shipped by DHL from China arrived within 5 days, along with a courier and bag/ docs to return the broken one, but the replacement has done exactly the same thing after only another month or so ( 2 or 3 uses) .
It has made me question the mounts I've been using, as I haven't tried to remove the battery ever until they've failed, so hmmm- functionality is great, support (to date, will report back on what they say this time ) A1 so far, but robustness, I'm currently not convinced....

[Dodgy69]

Could it be a vibration issue thing like those phone thingy bobs.

[ZRX61]

A 12pk of water pistols...

[ZRX61]

[Tricky]

Could it be a vibration issue thing like those phone thingy bobs.

That was my immediate thoughts, yep, albeit it is strange though as the mount is rubber mounted, doesn't seem to vibrate much through the bars and certainly the video quality isn't affected, and I'm struggling to understand why it might break , the spring has just fractured one coil up from the bottom - this is the offending item, or more accurately, it's 3/4 of it

[ZRX61]

Spotted at an antique fair i was dragged into on Sunday.

£15 for cash, hopefully will be useful for the myriad threads on the JAPton.

I have a set that I bought when I lived in London that looks identical apart from the brand name & the box is orange.. I moved out of London over 40 years ago...

There's a company in Devon that specializes in Whit/BS tools.

[Rockburner]

Spotted at an antique fair i was dragged into on Sunday.

£15 for cash, hopefully will be useful for the myriad threads on the JAPton.

I have a set that I bought when I lived in London that looks identical apart from the brand name & the box is orange.. I moved out of London over 40 years ago...

There's a company in Devon that specializes in Whit/BS tools.

If I spot a BSF set, I'm grabbing it - I don't seem to have much - just odds and ends. The one or two complete old sets I do have, in lovingly made factory spec wooden cases no less, are weird threads I can't figure out.