I think my leather jacket in the 80's was an "Excelled" or something like that. I still have it, but it doesn't fit and it is looking its age.


The attached pic is the Excelled classic Motorcycle jacket:

 

Great photo, those were some good times weren't they?

Nowadays safety nannies would be all over you about the lack of helmet, gloves, long pants and that Corvair in the background (unsafe at any speed) LOL!

 

Levi's, T-shirts and Levi jackets were what we mostly wore when I started riding. My first motorcycle jacket was from a store called Monte Mart (much like Walmart today). It didn't last very long and I was able to afford vented armored jackets like I ride in today. Leather is too hot during our summers to ride in.

 

The same thing that I'm wearing today. I don't like to buy new stuff. So 80% of my outerwear is old. One leather jacket from the late 60's.

 

My first leather jacket was in 1979, it was a Lewis Leathers jacket (London). It would be worth a good amount if I still had it but alas it wouldn't fit any more lol.

I used to also wear an all in one rainsuit. Well it always rained in London.

 

Always had a fondness for greaser leathers, & still have it!

 

I wore a plastic/vinyl Michael Jackson styled jacket with all the zippers in the 80's. Bright red one. I was a kid then cruising around on my bmx bike.

 

I was born in the 80's, so my riding gear was an MX jersey and chest protector for my little Y-Zinger dirt bike.

 

big belled levis and platform boots

 

I ear a Schott Perfecto. Been around since 1913 - still made in USA. Most famously, the jacket worn by Marlon Brando in The Wild One (not to mention James Dean, the Ramones, etc.



The Schott Perfecto- The Original Wild One.