You and Your Leather Jacket

[Stand By]

There are some good stories here. I love the passion that people feel for these things .... we all have the same, similar hankering and can relate - just different stories. It's nice. Great idea for a thread, this.

 

[mendelboaz]

There are some good stories here. I love the passion that people feel for these things .... we all have the same, similar hankering and can relate - just different stories. It's nice. Great idea for a thread, this.

I hear that, louder than I can hear the sound of my own drums-- and I've been told I drum excruciatingly loud. This is why I love the Lounge, to share and embiggen a passion. Long live leather and long live the Lounge!

 

[tropicalbob]

Other "non-stories" stories are just as encouraged. There has to be at least one person here who's gotten married in their jacket.

Close. I was married in a Hindu temple in Queens, NY. Half the audience was Indian and the other Scottish and people I grew up with in New Jersey. Well, halfway through I'm up on this altar dressed in a dhoti with flower garlands when my band from the Lower East side walks in with full leather regalia. Our singer had a complete Elvis in Vegas outfit. Then I hear "Hey, Donovan!" "Mellow Yellow!" and so forth. 1981.

 

[gtdean48]

My wife, then girlfriend, gave me a distressed A2 after my sister had seen a movie that she said reminded her of me. We saw it & they agreed but I didn't see it so much. "The Sure Thing" with John Cusack. Hated to see the real jacket worn in the pool but back then, I didn't appreciate leather jackets like now. That was almost 30 years ago. I still have the jacket & still can wear it but don't, knits are about shot. I got back into motorcycle riding in 1994, restored a 1975 Triumph Trophy 500. Bought a cafe racer cause it looked right for the bike.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

How much?

$50?

Sold.

My Multipocket is back with me now, never to leave the wardrobe ever again.

That is a story. To "reunite" with a previous "hated" item still in perfect condition.

 

[Monitor]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Joao. It was in a good condition, yes, but my dear cousin must've been using so much cologne or deodorant or whatever, that the jacket spent its first week home hanging on the balcony.

 

[nick123]

Close. I was married in a Hindu temple in Queens, NY. Half the audience was Indian and the other Scottish and people I grew up with in New Jersey. Well, halfway through I'm up on this altar dressed in a dhoti with flower garlands when my band from the Lower East side walks in with full leather regalia. Our singer had a complete Elvis in Vegas outfit. Then I hear "Hey, Donovan!" "Mellow Yellow!" and so forth. 1981.

That's a band for ya

 

[Spitfire]

Irvin owners knows what I am talking about here. Every third time we wear our jackets in public, the question pops up:
- Hey Battler Britton, where did you park your Spitfire?
I was meet with the same question, when I entered a bar in the city once.
- I parked it just right outside! I answered. (A bit tired)
- Sure thing! He said.
- You want to bet, I said. A pint?
We did and I took him outside and showed him the Triumph Spitfire, I had borrowed from a friend that same evening.

(Besides that, I can promise you all, that the Irvin is a ladies-magnet. They love to touch it and cuddle up in it. But that's quite another story.)

 

[Stand By]

Irvin owners knows what I am talking about here. Every third time we wear our jackets in public, the question pops up:
- Hey Battler Britton, where did you park your Spitfire?
I was meet with the same question, when I entered a bar in the city once.
- I parked it just right outside! I answered. (A bit tired)
- Sure thing! He said.
- You want to bet, I said. A pint?
We did and I took him outside and showed him the Triumph Spitfire, I had borrowed from a friend that same evening.

Nice!
The best that I could have managed was to have been holding a pint of Spitfire ! Not nearly as impressive (tasty as it is).

 

[bn1966]

Great story Spitfire. It's a good job Triumph Spitfire's don't have wings...mine was always conking out