New gear for the wife!

Everyone knows that women love clothing. I am slightly guilty of exploiting this known fact in an effort to get my wife to be more enthusiastic about motorcycles. I planned it out carefully. First I monitored the funds in the bank account. Seeing that there was a bit of extra cash that could be spent I selected items that I thought my wife would find to be cool and fit with her style. My goal was to accomplish several things... get her into some protective motorcycle gear, make her more comfortable when going on rides, and satisfy her desire to look fashionable.

The helmet she has been using is of unknown age and condition. It smells kinda funny, and has to be well past the recommended 5 year replacement interval for motorcycle helmets. We both agreed that she was going to get a new helmet some time ago... This was easy to get approval to purchase. She has also been wearing her casual leather jacket, and a pair of my snowboarding gloves. This is not ideal protection in the event of hitting the pavement. I surfed over to newenough.com, which sells brand new clearance and sale motorcycle gear. I located a very stylish baby blue helmet, a white and baby blue leather jacket and some white leather gloves. I feel I did a good job finding gear that she would like wearing, that I knew would provide her with a great level of comfort and protection.

I waited until she had just fallen asleep, and went into the bedroom, speaking softly to her, I mentioned that I found some motorcycle stuff that I wanted to buy for her. When she is sleeping, she agrees to anything, and usually doesn't remember it in the morning. She said "mmm.. okay" and promptly fell back into a deep slumber. I bounced back over to the computer with our debit card, and ordered up!

The next day she figured out what I had done, and I showed her what I ordered for her. She didn't seem that excited.. I was a little dissapointed, but still hopeful that once the items arrived, she would try them on and like them.

The order came in three different boxes on different days. The helmet came first. It is an HJC CL-SP Type O helmet in flat powder blue. Her reaction was good. She seemed to be happy, and immediately wanted to go for a ride to test it out.

The Gloves arrived yesterday. They are the Joe Rocket Trixie gloves in white. They are nice, supple, yet thick leather, and have padding, and knuckle armor. They fit pretty well, and she seemed pleased, wanting to go for a ride again to test them out.

Today is when it all paid off. The Cortech LNX Jacket in white and powder blue, matched both the helmet and the gloves rather well. It has a very sporty fit, excellent features, and all the armor that any sport riding jacket usually comes with. She tried it on, and it fit well, so she cut off the tags and grabbed her new helmet and gloves, so we could go for a ride...

This has all worked out very nicely since after I ordered her gear, I found out that her brother got her the KZ200 for her birthday!

She still needs some leather riding pants... She went to bed about 30 minutes ago. This is probably the perfect time to ask her if I can get her some pants.