Found out about some cool canvas riding gear from Italy. As you can see it’s a short armored jacket and reinforced pants that can be unzipped to make shorts. Nice for the casual rider look if you’re the type that doesn’t like to look like a Power Ranger… or a Village Person…
Of course the translations aren’t so great, but I’ve posted a bit anyway. I think you get the picture.
It travels fresh with City Tucano: “Coupled new, jacket and pantanoli from City Tucano to the standard of the emergency and the freschezza: Jacket Rocky and Panta Canvas.
The Rocky is one short jacket from the sport cut, equipped of estraibili rigid protections CE on the elbows and estraibili protecting paddings on the back and the shoulders, inner hinge with flap inner antiwind, pockets portadocumenti and regulations on the flanks.”
8. June 2006 at 5:00 pm
Out of curiosity – where can you purchase Turcano Urbano products in the U.S.? Google came up with a bunch of sites that were mostly Italian (for good reason). Would love to check this jacket out…..
8. June 2006 at 5:10 pm
Ahhh! And there-in lies the issue my friend. To the best of my knowledge, you can’t.
Who wants to be the first to open an Italian Rider Boutique in NYC? You could sell only the finest riding gear at a premium. The market is there!
Eventually… a rich person will get tired of it and it will end on ebay, when I can then afford to buy it.
8. June 2006 at 7:49 pm
Thanks Steve. That’s what I figured – although one of the search results was for a company called “wheelup” in Italy and it looks like they carry several of the Tucano Urbano products (not this specific one though) and ship to the U.S. Might be worth e-mailing to see if they can get the “rocky” jacket in stock or not…..