Motorcycle Racing Gloves are essential for motorcycle riding; and required equipment for motorcycle racing. Quality Motorcycle Gloves are incredibly important in that they offer the rider feedback from the road, including information from the tires, motor, brakes and suspension. You can make decisions based upon feel and feedback. Because of the need to “feel”, you have to design; literally engineer a product that enables the rider to have “sensory” feedback and at the same time, offer protection that is robust. But, how do you have both? Typically, adding protection means you have to sacrifice feedback and feel. These are two very important aspects of riding. It also poses a great challenge in glove design. A single crash on your bicycle can ruin your hand for weeks. Imagine crashing at over 150mph on asphalt and never feeling the heat while sliding and maintaining the full function of your hands; now were talking about something quite extraordinary. The K-FX racing glove is a true proprietary race glove design that uses over a dozen different materials including advanced lightweight composites interwoven together to produce a unique, one of a kind glove. It’s not just the combination of advanced materials; it’s how they are combined as an application that allows full anatomical movement to create a glove that truly functions while under stress without the rider ever knowing it. The elegant design patterns allows generous amounts of Kevlar in critical safety areas and includes the right combination of materials/composites to offer an extremely comfortable, lightweight and protective glove. What is even more unique about the K-FX glove
is that they are “off the rack” and truly deliver on an exceptional fit and feel. They are well finished and come in standard sizing while offering more protection than any mass produced glove currently on the market. And at a Factory Direct price of $174.95 makes them the best value your dollar will buy when it comes to race gloves. Nothing in this price range including gloves that cost $100 plus don’t even compare. The K-FX glove has been used in local regional races, Red Bull Rookies Cup all the way to Moto GP. If one word can be used to describe the K-FX race glove, it is “exceptional”. Komodo also offers gloves for street use in mesh and shorty designs; both have received strong praise from third party sources across the world.
What Goes Into Making A Quality Motorcycle Glove – K-FX Racing Glove
Michelin Motorcycle Race Tire Power One
Michelin has announced the new Power One race tire for motorcycles.
Let’s get acquainted with the new Power One as it utilizes a host of new technologies, we’ll start with here with “2CT” tech, the Power One employs what Michelin calls MRSE (Michelin Racing Synthetic Elastomers) compounds combined with HTSC (High Tech Synthetic Compound) resins. The idea is that Michelin’s particular mixture of compounds is aimed at providing fast warm-up times while offering great grip characteristics.
Another technology is the new NST (Near Slick Technology). The minimal tread patters covers only 5% of the tire’s surface, which really means that the tire is 95% slick, which maximizes the rubber patch ensuring outstanding contact with the road. Michelin claims the resulting traction helps facilitate lean angles approaching 60 degrees, which is incredible since these lean angles were not obtainable for the general riding public a few years ago.
However, these tires were designed as track day tires and for road racing. They are not optimal for everyday street use because they need to generate sufficient heat to accomplish maximum grip. In addition, they are not going to be ideal for wet riding conditions as the 95% slick pattern will only make wet weather riding a true white knuckle experience. Also, the will not last in terms of mileage; these tires are meant for winning races or making fast laps around a closed racing circuit (track day).
So, to sum it all up, the new Power One incorporates a new dual-compound technology in one tire. The hardest compound of rubber hardness/grip is found in the center. The softer compound is on each side of the tire where you need it the most for traction at extreme lean angles. These new Power One tires change the game when it comes to performance. Check the out at www.komodogear.com for a wide selection and great prices – with free shipping!
Danny Kelsey tells Komodo Gear about his 130mph crash
Danny Kelsey tells Komodo Gear about his 130mph crash at Eagle’s Canyon Raceway.
