D-pocket jackets with left handwarmer

[Guppy]

Could the pocket side be a variation from the English. It didn't occur to me until reading this thread that Barbour internationals have their chest pocket on the left requiring right hand entry. Works if the left hand is the throttle hand. In this vicinity not so much.

It's also dictated by the need for a double breasted cross zip jacket to go left over right so that a right handed zipper will work.

 

[Guppy]

Yes, but Napoleon pockets on motorcycle jackets should be on the right hand breast, so you can operate them with your left (non-throttle) hand. The Sears/Hercules on here works fine too, since you can just dip your left hand into the pocket, but (only) a right hand-specific pocket on a motorcycle jacket is dumb. Unless you ride a Goldwing and have cruise control, of course.

I would never reach into a pocket while at speed. When riding, everything I'm doing is focused on minimizing risks and safe operating.

 

[handymike]

Here's the back, Terry:

 

[Bjorn240]

Could the pocket side be a variation from the English. It didn't occur to me until reading this thread that Barbour internationals have their chest pocket on the left requiring right hand entry. Works if the left hand is the throttle hand. In this vicinity not so much.

No, those bikes still had the throttle on the right. Many were right-shift, left-foot brake, but the throttle has been on the right since well, ever. The reason that the slanted pocket on Internationals is where it is, is that in ISDT/ISDE/Enduro, when they used time cards, you had to stop at the control and hand the timecard over to the control marshal. The control marshal would typically be standing on the right side of the road/track and you'd stop, unsnap the pocket, and hand over your card.

This video of 1950s trials in Yorkshire is great:

My favorite quote is "Momentum, and hope, are lost at the same time."

 

[Bjorn240]

I would never reach into a pocket while at speed. When riding, everything I'm doing is focused on minimizing risks and safe operating.

Commuting to work each day, simultaneous clutch-up wheelieing while hitting shuffle on my iPhone barely alleviates the boredom. Can't live forever.

 

[Bfd70]

Great lesson Bkorn, thanks

 

[01flhr]

If your stopped you shouldnt be putting your bike in neutral. Stopped is the most vulnerable position for a rider. Thats why the d pocket makes sense. What do you need a left hand pocket for while riding? Nothing.