It's the most expensive article of clothing that I ever bought. And I would never have considered buying it at the original price. Not because it's too expensive, but because it's too much money. (Not the same thing at all!)
But
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stoneshop had been singing the praises of this particular type of motorcycle jacket, in the most powerful way possible: by demonstrating how comfortable they are, how he never gets too hot, too cold or wet wearing them, and how they last him 200.000 kilometres.
(The durability of motorcycle gear is best measured in distance.)
Furthermore, there was some money coming in.
And to top it off I found one on the internets that was 50% off. So I decided we'd at least go and look at it in the shop, and try it on. I could always decide it didn't fit or that I didn't like it all that much after all. Or that I'd try and find a used one, now that I knew the right size.
So we went to the BMW store, as yes, this is BMW gear. We parked our scruffy looking Honda dirt bikes out in front.
The store looks very shiny, lots of glass, everything looks immaculately clean. You could eat your lunch off any of the bikes in the shop. There was nothing in there that I found desirable at all.
Except for the jacket.
Savanna 2 suits being presented on a fair
It's red. That was one of the reasons I wanted it: none of that drab all-black gear for me.
It's nifty all over. It's full of zippers that allow you to cool off when it's warm. This is the kind of jacket that you can actually wear all year round because it's got all those nifty features. And it's really well made.
To say that it felt comfortable would have been an understatement.
It felt like a second skin. No, heavier. It felt like home. It felt like 200.000 kilometres of lovely roads. It felt like it had my name on it.
And the price was, at 50% off... acceptable.
But there was another issue. Jackets in this series are not waterproof by themselves, they need a Gore tex liner. And the liner is not included in the price of the jacket.
In fact it turned out to cost almost as much as the jacket itself.
So, the deal was off.
Of course, I went back two days later and bought it anyway. Plus the liner.
And now there's a pair of gently used Savanna 2 trousers up on E-bay. Grey (the same kind of grey that the jacket has) with small patches of blue! Wouldn't that look wonderful with the red jacket, on my red-white-and-blue bike?
Keep your fingers crossed for me!
