#gear stuff

Shitty zoomed in screenshot but in my heart Celestino is trying to figure out how the FUCK Pecco is staying pristine in white on this track day, down to his boots, when even in the earlier daytime photos Celestino looks like this

That's a great one! I'm a big fan of the z lineup.

I have been in the past - but wouldn't consider myself one anymore. I don't make money off of it anymore 🤑. I worked for about 4 years as a portrait photographer in a studio. After that I freelanced for a few years doing portraits, weddings, stock photos, etc. So the gear paid for itself and also my other bills.

I thought this was a crochet shirt, like these things:

It’s not it’s… I don’t know what to call the fabric. Rough tweed?? More of his recent grandmother/auntie theme.

Also, it has snaps. I will say I do own a button-down with snaps, but anyway. Can’t see the details on his buttons, but god knows. It also appears that the brown edges and stripes are added on top of the base fabric, not part of the weave, which adds kind of clumsy extra bulk on top of bulky fabric— which, unlined, seems to hang okay at least. Maybe the stiffness is helpful?

and my italian's not great but in a track day vlog last year he also has some kind of problem with his boots. and when bez and mig ask about his spares, he's only got 2 even more broken right boots in his trunk. (next to an inflateable dinosaur costume?) I think mig offers to lend him his

If you understand italian it's about 1min into this video: https://youtu.be/zCmLhuO7Y5s

leathers are way more expensive. falling is more common when riding dirt and you're inevitably going to get scuffed up. if you've only got one set of leathers it doesn't make sense to mess them up if you can get away with just a long sleeve shirt/jeans for mx.

obviously not a concern for the academy now, but they have all worn mx gear if it's an actual muddy/off road/jumps mx track and not just the ranch dirt flat track. vale in an mx jersey weirdly unsettling.

leathers are hot. as you said, necessary protection on asphalt but mx gear is designed to be breathable. they mostly do mx in winter with vests so maybe heat is less of a concern, but it must still be stiffer and harder to move around in

boots and helmets are different and not interchangeable. they always use mx boots/helmet on dirt.

I agree it must come down to habits, i.e. they're used to wearing leathers for everything else. notably, other than pecco, franky and luca are in mx gear the most. and I think they've said luca is the best at the ranch and franky had the lap record at one point, right?

this has devolved so far from the initial pecco analysis, but I also have some thoughts/info on bez and cele if you're still interested?