Have you looked at Fox Creek Leather? I have a pair of their (discontinued, it was designed like the cuffed Maverick but had a velcro strap around the wrist for extra retention) gloves and they still look good after twelve years, though a seam is starting to open after a get off a few years ago.
Diamond Camo on sniper rifles, assault rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, heavy weapons, and pistols in COD: AW. Couldn't do it on the launchers and special weapons.
I stopped playing after that.
First was a Novation CAT 110/300 baud with acoustic coupler. Later I got a Practical Peripherals 1200, then a Zoom Telephonics 2400/9600. Then I bought a US Robotics Courier HST, it cost a ridiculous amount at the time. A few years later was working and I mailed it and an actual check to USR and they swapped it for a Courier vEverything (with the 20Mhz DSP). I still have that modem and a newer vEverything I salvaged.
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I don't back up anything I can rebuild. I have multiple half-assed methods in use together for the rest of it:
- Backups daily of homedirs on desktops and laptops using Borg and Vorta to external usb drives. These devices get rotated out annually. I used to run 2-disk RAID1 and when I rotated the disks out, split them and sent them to family but now I'm taking my chances on having them local and putting them in a fireproof box.
- Code repos are synced to github or srht.
- Monthly backups of homedirs are sent via borg to rsync.net.
- Desktop and laptop homedirs get periodic (roughly monthly) burns to Dual-Layer BDRs which I put in the fireproof box and sometimes hand off to family.
That bike has, what, 2.1 gallon tank? So 80-100 mile range depending on right wrist.
Hit up a camping store for an MSR bottle?
Givi makes a bottle that doesn't look like you're headed to the KOA.
Admittedly pricey but convenient Giant Loop sells Armadillo Bags.
Great, glad it helped.
So in that budget, maybe look at closeouts:
- Revzilla "RSD Johnny Jacket" Sure looks good, waxed cotton and leather so a bit warmer than mesh but has armor.
- Revzilla "Dainese Air Tourer"
- Search link on Motorcycle Closeouts
Another angle is to get an inexpensive jacket with no, unrated, or minimal armor. Consider it just better than disposable and priced that way (Joe Rocket is in this category but their stuff is sport and urban styled). Then get an armored sleeve or shirt. Basically pick parts. I used to do this, wearing a motocross pressure shirt (like this one, this or this ) under a cordura jacket.
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I'm in the adv/touring crowd but I'll try to come up with brands that might work on a classically styled v-twin...
There's Motoport which cuts to any size and customizes though they're probably missing the "break the wallet" part. I know folks with them and they like the jackets, even having crashed them. Those look like very much like motorcycle jackets though if you call they'll add or delete things, the Air Mesh jacket is more subtle but less cruiser. Belstaff waxed cotton looks great and is lighter than leather (and their mc jackets have CE armor) though heavier than mesh maybe out of budget. That's probably true for Merlin's line up, too, but a little more affordable.
Vanson's Baja is a variation on that Belstaff look in mesh, probably also close to breaking the bank, I've seen it in person and it looks good but it wouldn't be mistaken for a casual jacket.
I can recommend Rev'It personally and they have some traditionally styled textile gear (the "trucker" jacket is nicely styled and has armor though I haven't seen it in person) but the cut of their gear is definitely European/slim. I can also personally recommend Klim's gear and it doesn't all look Adv, for example the Marrakesh looks casual but has armor. I used to have some Alpinestars gear (I have a pair of their boots now, excellent) and it was uniformly good, I don't know if any of their stuff has a suitable look for a cruiser now.
I suspect (without proof, just a hunch) that it's load and timeouts. I've had to subscribe, wait a few seconds, reload, unsub, reload, subscribe, lather-rinse-repeat a few times to get subscriptions to lemmy.ml work from lemmy.sdf.org.
CTO coming in hot, an employee poaching lawsuit, pet dev team working in a "bunker" separate from corporate, and that no matter how well-documented and designed "Chesterton's fence" applies to back-ends so it's unlikely to be a smooth cut-over. These are all bad signs.
What's good is that you have some number of months, maybe a year, maybe more, to find your next role.
Not just you.
I think their Alps-style switches are fine but not special. I have an original Apple Extended II and an ADB-USB adapter and the original Alps switches are better.
I'll be honest, I like the Fox Creeks I have but you can find gloves for less. I rode with a pair of deerskin ropers from a Western store for years. Any good pair of goat, deer, or elk skin gloves will last a long time and give good abrasion protection (as long as they stay on, look for a strap, I've crash tested what was at the time a $50 pair and they and I survived).
Gloves like these: