Blue Dingo Motorcycle Apparel - A great Canberra export

Hey Graeme and others. My hubby has been wearing his Dingo for several years now and swears by it, best winter bike jacket he’s ever had. Worn it up to the Snowy Ride twice now, including once when it was actually snowing. He wore it on the chair lift up to eagles nest in the snow and was toasty the whole time.

We love our Joe Rockets for summer riding though.

(And no, Graeme didn’t pay me to write this either 😉 )

Hi Graeme from Blue Dingo here, just found this and am really quite pleased by the comments, particularly as this jacket is my own design. A few years ago I left Melbourne early one Sunday morning on a 1200 Bandit, -3 deg and thick fog all the way to Wodonga, usuall extremities fingers, toes soon froze but the thing that annoyed me most was that a well know brand, top of the range jacket was letting in quite a bit of chill through the front opening, being a front flap, a zip and a flap behind the zip. The trouble I thought is that the thermal liner zips into the jacket about 50mm either side of the opening, so there is 100mm of chest with no insulation. Sitting in a road house in Albury later that morning I decided that what the touring rider wants is an insulated liner that overlaps in the middle, so the Snowy II jacket has a liner that zips together in the middle, there is no gap, there is a flap over that join, then the jacket outer shell does up as is pretty common with a flap over the main zip and one behind. The other thing that I have done is put in extra waterproof layer, the outer layer of the lining is a Reissa membrame as is the middle layer of the jacket shell. I got some prototypes made, Hal from TJ’s had one for a winter and another I put kilometeres on, apart from badly sized collars they exceeded expectation, and the rest as they say is history, I had the collar and a few other minor thigs changed and got them made. They are in stock at TJ’s in Braddon.

Cheers
Graeme

Apple’s computers are made in China, Taiwan, and Malaysia.

But the brains are all in California and that’s where the money goes home.

I don’t have a problem with that.

Canberra doesn’t have the labor force to support manufacturing. But a whole bunch of smart design bureaus? That sounds like a good idea to me.

nice automatic assumption that the australian company’s production floor would be a sweatshop. the level of workmanship that I have seen them turn out both on road equipment and race leathers would suggest something more than minimum wage slave driving (cue dim lights and whips etc). the pakistani facility on the otherhand is much more likely to be the sweatshop that you described

I would have thoughts its all important, including where the materials are sourced from, through to the design and manufacture

I know what the helmet is! I just think it’s disgraceful. He could’ve just worn a motorbike helmet or something. Or a bag.

jase! said :

don’t you mean a great canberra import?

“Designed in Australia
Made in Pakistan”

there are companies that make motorcycle gear IN australia, just not this one

Personally I think design and head office are more important. Who wants to work in a sweatshop?

don’t you mean a great canberra import?

“Designed in Australia
Made in Pakistan”

there are companies that make motorcycle gear IN australia, just not this one

I’ve also heard excellent things about BD gear – almost makes me wish I was in the market for a jacket right now…

I know what that helmet is.

I want one! Sold my bike thhough, so don’t really need a jacket. :/

johnboy said :

Did you read the last par?

Actually I didn’t, I just started my rant after reading the first part.
Sorry, and in future I will save my vitriolage for more deserving targets.
(Like the toilet wall hole)