I’m flying to St Andrews in Scotland over the new year to play some golf and then driving down to Surrey to shoot some flying plates clay pigeons with an old shotgun, with this trip in mind I’ve been scouring the web for suitable cold weather attire that will keep me warm but not leave me looking like an excitable Korean tourist in Switzerland.
I picked up one of these 100% merino wool scarves last week from Everlane, it comes from a 200 year old weaving house in Hawick, Scotland and measures 20″ wide by 80″ long. It only costs $65 and it has the look and feel of something that’ll last a very long while.
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The Arai XD-4 Africa Twin Helmet is a new addition to the Arai helmet range targeted squarely at Honda riders. The design of the XD-4 Africa Twin is both a little modern and a little retro/classic, so it’ll appeal to a wide range of motorcyclists, and the fact that Arai make helmets for both MotoGP and…
The John Doe Ironhead jeans are specifically designed for motorcyclists, with a proprietary XTM® fiber liner, made from abrasion resistant DuPont Kevlar® fibers and inner Coolmax® fibers for temperature regulation. The key design goal of the Ironhead motorcycle jeans was to ensure that they looked like regular streetwear, while still offering protection for motorcyclists. The…
The Pendulux Altimeter Table Clock looks like it was pulled from the cockpit of a military surplus B-17 bomber in the years after WW2, but in reality it’s a brand new clock made from cast aluminium alloy, brass, and glass. With a hefty weight of 1.6 lbs, the Pendulux clock isn’t a lightweight. The team…
Pando Moto design and manufacturer all of their gear in Europe to ensure top notch quality control at each stage of the production process. This is rather unusual in the modern age of global supply chains but it’ll be reassuring to those of you who, like me, have had gear that was mass-produced in China…
The original Heuer Monza was created in 1976 to celebrate the World Championship win for the Ferrari Formula 1 team a year earlier in 1975 – with legendary drivers Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni. Heuer, or Uhrenmanufaktur Heuer AG, wouldn’t become TAG Heuer until 1985 when a majority of the company was purchased by TAG…
The new Omologato Zandvoort automatic wristwatch is dedicated to the famous Zandvoort circuit on the west coast of the Netherlands, near the town of the same name. The track was originally built after WW2, partially using communications roads built by the occupying German military. Over the course of its life the Circuit Park Zandvoort has…
