Getting some patches done on leather jacket

roadking · **Posted:** Fri Nov 13, 2015 9:25 am

badinfluence63 wrote:

RK...patch's and their use or non use is as individually a decision as the wise choice to ride or not ride a Harley. To some a patch commemorates a memory. A destination, a moment in time.

As far as feeling that it looks fake and that's why you don't....? Do you know how many motorcycle riders out there who'd love to have a Harley but chose not to so as not to be associated with the new breed of ass tools that they feel ride Harleys today? Never a good reason not to own a Harley or patch's for that matter...just thinking out loud. There's always gonna be a large contingency of posers in all things, lol.

Not so much today but back in the day it was the sidewalk commando...he had all the gear like a he thought a biker had but no bike. I don't see a lot of that much anymore today do you? Of course I don't mingle much in the motorcycle community these days either.

Sorry guys if I came across as negative about getting the patches done. I couldn't agree more with you about the choice.

I was trying to make the point about - for me - how the importance of actually owning and riding a motorcycle especially an HD, made the patches a mute subject.

I guess for me when I got my little gold winged pin to mark/celebrate my first 10K miles on my bike it would have been an equivalent to a patch.

I just see these guys all over with all these patches on a vest with everywhere they went and I kind of think to myself - I get it - you go places - why do you need to advertise it?

I've been almost as many places as Jonny Cash - "I've Been Every Where". I just never had the need to publicize it.

Then there are the ones that have the jackets full of MOCO...

So, when one of our own - BasicC, started the thread - my weigh in wasn't to be negative - but more to the point was to make him realize that NO patches were just as cool as a jacket covered by them as long as you had the bike and rode it to back it up.
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badinfluence63 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:51 am **Posts:** 1966

roadking wrote:

badinfluence63 wrote:

RK...patch's and their use or non use is as individually a decision as the wise choice to ride or not ride a Harley. To some a patch commemorates a memory. A destination, a moment in time.

As far as feeling that it looks fake and that's why you don't....? Do you know how many motorcycle riders out there who'd love to have a Harley but chose not to so as not to be associated with the new breed of ass tools that they feel ride Harleys today? Never a good reason not to own a Harley or patch's for that matter...just thinking out loud. There's always gonna be a large contingency of posers in all things, lol.

Not so much today but back in the day it was the sidewalk commando...he had all the gear like a he thought a biker had but no bike. I don't see a lot of that much anymore today do you? Of course I don't mingle much in the motorcycle community these days either.

Sorry guys if I came across as negative about getting the patches done. I couldn't agree more with you about the choice.

I was trying to make the point about - for me - how the importance of actually owning and riding a motorcycle especially an HD, made the patches a mute subject.

I guess for me when I got my little gold winged pin to mark/celebrate my first 10K miles on my bike it would have been an equivalent to a patch.

I just see these guys all over with all these patches on a vest with everywhere they went and I kind of think to myself - I get it - you go places - why do you need to advertise it?

I've been almost as many places as Jonny Cash - "I've Been Every Where". I just never had the need to publicize it.

Then there are the ones that have the jackets full of MOCO...

So, when one of our own - BasicC, started the thread - my weigh in wasn't to be negative - but more to the point was to make him realize that NO patches were just as cool as a jacket covered by them as long as you had the bike and rode it to back it up.
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Some guys patch's tell their story. Some guys patchs are BS and just for show.

BasicCAFE883 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 13, 2015 4:06 pm

Let's go riding! :icon_whee:

roadking · **Posted:** Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:38 am

badinfluence63 wrote:

Some guys patch's tell their story. Some guys patchs are BS and just for show.

Yeah, and one of the main reasons I stay away from the whole patch thing. I'm just out having my time riding. Don't need to let every body know my biz-niz.

I now have motorcycle specific gear, meaning I don't wear it out while I'm not riding. My old gear doubled as my regular jacket so I'd go out drinking and partying in it. Seemed out of place covered in patches*. As for the new gear, it's just so spiffy that I can't deface it with patches or pins. At some point I just - grew out of the patch stream. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't get a bunch of patches all over my old jacket - I still wear it out partying and it just looks cool - my black leather biker jacket - well worn. It tells its story in a more subtle way. The miles and places it's seen are in me - not on me.

*I stayed away from biker bars, the reason I still have all my teeth and can whistle. :icon_smoking:

badinfluence63 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:51 am **Posts:** 1966

roadking wrote:

badinfluence63 wrote:

Some guys patch's tell their story. Some guys patchs are BS and just for show.

Yeah, and one of the main reasons I stay away from the whole patch thing. I'm just out having my time riding. Don't need to let every body know my biz-niz.

I now have motorcycle specific gear, meaning I don't wear it out while I'm not riding. My old gear doubled as my regular jacket so I'd go out drinking and partying in it. Seemed out of place covered in patches*. As for the new gear, it's just so spiffy that I can't deface it with patches or pins. At some point I just - grew out of the patch stream. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't get a bunch of patches all over my old jacket - I still wear it out partying and it just looks cool - my black leather biker jacket - well worn. It tells its story in a more subtle way. The miles and places it's seen are in me - not on me.

*I stayed away from biker bars, the reason I still have all my teeth and can whistle. :icon_smoking:

Like you i have a similar style now. gearing toward touring. In early years i had a vest I wore and on that vest i placed patchs that meant somthing to me. Mostly memorial patchs of friends who have passed on. I don't wear it an more and have purchased a plain leather vest with no patchs i wear to work every day.

roadking · **Posted:** Thu Nov 19, 2015 11:30 am

Here's a couple pics from badinfluence63 :

badinfluence63 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:51 am **Posts:** 1966

Yep that was my old vest for 25+ years, lol. It don't fit now and I don't wear one other than to work anymore. Thanks RK!

Eddieblz · **Joined:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:06 pm **Posts:** 617

Damn!!!! Not another one of these threads! :icon_sos:

roadking · **Posted:** Fri Nov 20, 2015 3:08 pm

badinfluence63 wrote:

Yep that was my old vest for 25+ years, lol. It don't fit now and I don't wear one other than to work anymore. Thanks RK!

Well done - not too many and looks really nice. Glad to assist.

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