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    Crazy steer and Milwaukee steer

    I was looking at the AL hides just now and thinking that this sort of oily hide with a suede type finish seems to be getting very common. Maybe it's in fashion since Aero's oil pull's gone that way too. It's not at all like an older Aero oil pull jacket I've got and it looks a lot like the...
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    To bi-swing back or not to bi-swing back?

    Or even sit at the controls.... I never understood why they didn't have the same backs as the navy jackets. I've never got on with any A2 for that reason.
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    Horween Chromexel Steer not dyed all the way through

    No I don't think so. I've got a Montgomery shearling lined jacket from the forties and it's made of lighter HH than that. I had to take it apart and remake it once and I saw exactly how well it was made, and it was fairly utilitarian. They were not high end brands like the best makers today. But...
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    Horween Chromexel Steer not dyed all the way through

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    Interesting thread about "Chest Ease Allowance"

    Interesting that there is such disagreement about how to measure a chest correctly on a forum like that. I've always measured over the shoulder blades. Maybe because I was into body building when I was a teenager and that was the way which made the chest measure larger, so I just got used to...
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    Horween Chromexel Steer not dyed all the way through

    Not so easy if you aren't buying directly from the tannery but from a maker. Most like Aero hold a limited number of types of hides and as we know the hide supplied changes slightly from batch to batch and more so over the years. The black CX they have now must from the accounts of the above...
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    Advice on aero fit

    Looks like a pretty good general fit to me. But I like a fit like that and don't like very tight jackets. Each to his own...
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    Horween Chromexel Steer not dyed all the way through

    "Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you...you may not have the same tastes." GB Shaw
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    Horween Chromexel Steer not dyed all the way through

    I've always used Connolly's Hide Food on my leather jackets and car seats. I use it on new Aeros too and I traded a FQHH one in early this year which they sold on their site with glowing prose about how special the hide was and what condition it was in. It was beautiful too. Getting softer but...
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    Horween Chromexel Steer not dyed all the way through

    The CX steer is very thick leather suitable for bikes but not so good in a crowded pub maybe. If you search this site you'll find some threads on it including a couple of people who wished they'd bought something more wearer friendly. One poster wrote of someone bumping into him on a crowded...
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    Horween Chromexel Steer not dyed all the way through

    Hm. I did wonder if the quality of the leather was going off a bit. Samples do change quite a lot from year to year but with the huge increase in Horween HH production I imagine, and when you think that even ten years ago they didn't sell all that much HH compared to now..... The jacket from...
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    Horween Chromexel Steer not dyed all the way through

    The Aero jackets made with this leather used to have a label that said they were made with leather tanned with 1920's techniques for workwear and that colour loss was to be expected from time to time. My over ten years old black Veste de Rallye has that label and has a couple of minor scuffs on...
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    Alexander Leathers

    Yes me too. In my case there are some very nice jackets just a size too small.. They seem to have slimmed down their sizes too if the chest measurements on the page are right. Size 42 are 22" pit to pit as standard with some 21"? Very military fit there. My 44 AL four pocket roadster measures...
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    Lewis Leathers Dominator No 551

    About as long as it took them to get from the Ace cafe to Hanger Lane and back. Or a bit further with some of those bikes which needed a lot of winding up to get to the magic number. Maybe on the way to the Busy Bee or some other transport cafe or roadside lean.
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    Lewis Leathers Dominator No 551

    Yes I've got one of those AL jackets in their black goat which I like a lot. I had a LL jacket for years a long time ago too but it wasn't a Dominator. I've always liked that twin chest pocket jacket and thought at the time it was a German WW11 design. They used LL off the peg jackets in the...
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    Quality vs Price...is there a compromise?

    You sound for all the world just like another new poster MyJingo who was concerned with the same issues and asked endless questions about them. He vanished just before you arrived though..... You can find the thread a page back if you haven't read it already.
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    Fit jacket pics

    Eventually, up to a point. If it's kept warm....
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    Aero's Motorcycle jacket vs. Indian Ranger

    Maybe they just should have been called spoon racers... Edward the show was on BBC 4 and is on BBC iPlayer and available to anyone outside of the UK using Tunnel Bear or something similar. Well worth watching. Yes lots of character. Oil leaks and endless fun tickling Amal 'eccentric'...
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    Aero's Motorcycle jacket vs. Indian Ranger

    Good info there. Did you see the Timeshift programme The Glory Days of British Motorcycles last night? Didn't tell me anything I didn't already know but it was a good slice of nostalgia, and some good shots of the North Circular ton up cafe racers, and the gear they were wearing then. There...
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    My Latest Evening Aero

    Just buy a Schott.

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