Reciprocal Link Exchanges can increase your website’s visibility in search engines… If they are true reciprocal links. When making Reciprocal Link Exchanges, Make it count!
Search for link partners by key words. Exchange links with other websites within your Niche Market.
-For example, if your site is about web design, you will want to exchange links with other web designers, web templates and resources related to the web
-Likewise, if your website is related to Toys, you’ll want to exchange links with sites that target your market. Keywords such as: toys, dolls, games, children, kids, parents.
-Keywords that you would use to promote your site will provide you with a good indication of sites you should exchange links with.
Select a key Link Text
-Your link text is generally your title. You want to select a few key words and focus on that as your title. As above, if your website is about web design, you will want to pick a few keywords and always use that in your link exchanges. A good suggestion if we are following our first example above would be: Web Design - yourdomain.com
–Do not use all caps in your title –Do not use excessive punctuation in your title –Do not use excessive keywords in your title
Be consistent. When you are adding your domain name, utilize the complete domain: http://www.example.com ( always include the www )
-http://example.com and http://www.example.com are different. If you want to make each exchange count, promote ONE format only.
Select a solid description
-Do not fill descriptions with keywords. This most likely will get your site rejected from being posted on most reciprocal link exchanges
-The majority of link exchange scripts have a limit of 255 characters. It’s a good idea to keep it short and sweet, but also include a few key words. If we’re continuing with the example above, a sample description we’d use is:
–A professional, affordable, website design firm specializing in SEO design, e-commerce and scripting solutions.
Keep a Spreadsheet
-Depending on the link exchange software you are using, you may have to keep tabs on the exchanges you initiate with a spreadsheet. Make a note of the URL you have visited and the date that you requested the exchange. When you receive the conformation email of approval, add in the URL where your link was posted. If you are using an online script to maintain your reciprocal links, you can enter in the reciprocal link in that database as well. If your link was denied, feel free to remove their link from your website. After all, it’s a reciprocal link exchange only if both parties exchange links 
When visiting sites for link exchange, ensure there is a link from the main page to their directory. If you cannot easily find their reciprocal link directory, you can bet the search engine can’t find it either. Look for links that read:
-Links -Link Exchange -Link Exchange Partners -Link Partners -Link to Us -Add your Link -Resources -Other Sites
Ensure their link exchange software of your reciprocal link partner is Search Engine Friendly. This is the ONLY way that your exchange will count!
-You can validate outgoing links as a spider sees it by using a Search Engine Simulator. Visit one of your partner’s directory pages, and cut and paste the URL into the search engine simulator, submit it and it will show you how many outbound links there are on that page. Looking into it you’ll be amazed at how many scripts available do not provide you with proper back link credit.
Validating True Reciprocal Link Exchange Partners, is the key to make each back link count!
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Filigree is a classic design element that has recently been revived in the fashion jewelry scene, taking a prominent seat in many designers’ winter and spring collections including Argento Vivo and Kendra Scott.
Gold, which was the foundation of many fall jewelry lines, has remained popular within this trend. Virtually all of the filigree designs I have seen have been made from vermeil or gold-plated brass filigree.
There are two reasons why I think we’re seeing filigree return right now:
1. Filigree lends itself to the bohemian-chic look that is commonly popular in spring fashion. Designers are getting ready and making the shift from the reserved, sultry looks of fall and winter and back into the lighter designs of spring and summer.
2. One of the major trends for 2006 fashion will be a “return to innocence” of sorts, as our country experiences a sense of nostalgia for less complicated times. Filigree has a very romantic, timeless look that appeals to this collective longing.
Whatever the reason, I’m glad to see it return in popularity. I love to design romantic, timeless jewelry, and filigree absolutely fits the bill. I expect to see it combined with wood, shell and other natural materials in the spring collections of many designers.
Georgia Hadley is a jewelry designer, writer, and small business owner who lives in rural Vermont. In addition to her own business, Adorneya Jewelry (http://www.adorneya.com), she is also a founding editor of Craft Revolution (http://www.craftrevolution.com), a website dedicated to promoting mainstream awareness of independent designers and their products as desirable alternatives to big-box stores.
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Purchasing a gas cooker or an electric powered cooker can to some people be a difficult thing, especially as the prices in general run from a minimum of approximately three-hundred pounds up to the top price range cookers that may cost notably more than three-thousand pounds. The various features found within the wide price bracket are numerous and quite often extremely tough to sort out.
Nonetheless, immediately after you’ve removed gas-based cookers as a potential selection there are numerous key options to research that should assist you in reducing your selections from 100s of products of electric powered cookers down to just four or possibly five cookers.
Key Points to Consider: Instantly, your foremost thing to decide should ideally be if you find it necessary to acquire a slot-in or an integrated cooker. The stand alone cooker doesn’t require housing: plus a model with just a single oven often fits into a 60 cm cubic area (60cm x 60cm x 60m). You can also select a double oven that can go into an area of similar width and depth as a single, but can sometimes be as much as 90 centimetres tall.
If you are installing the electric powered cooker into a brand new or restored kitchen, side-by-side ovens are a popular preference.
This means that you must select among electric cookers that come with single or dual ovens. With two ovens you can heat two items of food at different levels of heat; then again you can use one as a broiler or warmer.
Other main points to contemplate over include whether you would prefer electronic or manual controls, a self-cleaning oven (which is a typical feature) or, even better, an electric powered oven with a pyrolytic cleaning module. Such components, which clean the full interior are found in the more high-priced options. Discover a huge collection of electrical products such as; electric cookers, gas cookers and American fridge freezers from leading brands online.
In addition, you will also need to consider your new cooker’s exhaust system, whether it will be built-in or “chimney” style.
Electric Cooker Installation: An apt salesman ought to be able to assist you through the decisions stated above, & also support you in determining if your electric supply is far too much for the precise make of cooker you are considering. Scores off electric powered cookers require a 30 or forty-five amp power voltage, with a thirteen amp fuse connection. Electric powered cookers don’t usually come with cables already included; even so, it is strongly recommended that you use a properly qualified engineer for the setup. The engineer will then guarantee that you have the correct electricity supply and installation.
Gas cookers & electrical cookers each have their own advantages, and among cookers electric models are typically the most suitable choice to opt for.
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Consumer Credit Counselling is often a first step, but once you realize you can’t keep up with the payments, you should take action quickly. Ignoring the problem will only make it worse as creditors pile on late fees and take legal action to take your property and wages.
Types Of Personal Bankruptcy
There are two types of bankruptcy typically filed by individuals:
Chapter 7 is the most common, where most of your debts are wiped out. A Chapter
7 filing will discharge your debts, except for alimony and child support,
federally insured student loans, criminal and traffic fines, state and federal
taxes due within the last three years, and debts that resulted from wilful
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Chapter 13 allows you to pay back your debts on a payment plan, and may also
reduce some of your debts such as medical bills. A Chapter 13 personal bankruptcy
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You are usually given longer to pay off your debts and may have some of the
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Filing Personal Bankruptcy
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Several years ago, I met a fellow photographer - albeit, he was an amateur, a very
good one (the difference is not the quality of the work . the difference is that one
does it for love, the other does it for money). He is now a new friend and fellow
photographer named Marco, an Italian. His day job is as a top children’s heart
surgeon. His passion for photographing people takes him all over the world,
seeking out that special face, interesting enough to be captured on film/file.
During our brief encounter in my brother’s hairdressing salon, we had found
common ground and a need to explore each other’s pictures. He asked me if I would
visit his photographic society to meet the other members and discuss the possibility
of me giving a talk about my fashion photography. I said to Marco, “Whatever will I
talk about?”
Well, first off, he said, there is something very magical in the expressions of my
models and in the atmosphere of my pictures that he would love to have in his. He
asked me how do you achieve this. Shocked at his remark, I said, “No, I can’t,
because I don’t know myself.” You have to find out he said because this is what you
should talk about. We spent the next couple of hours disgussing photography and
the feelings and techniques of managing your subjects whilst shooting.
During my visit to his camera club, we arranged for my talk to be done nearly 9
months later, so I had time to think about my talk and to get myself prepared.
For days, I looked at my work and examined myself whilst shooting assignments. It
was maybe 6 months later whilst photographing a bridal-wear collection for one of
my clients that something clicked. (No pun intended!)
I had decided that I would like to start shooting with wider lenses to change the
style of my bridal-wear pictures. I shoot for so many bridal-wear designers, so I
have to make them look and feel different to the each other. It also helps to use a
short zoom, because during most of my shoots, I can take a variety of images from
full length to portrait shots from the same distance, so my client gets much more
usage out of the shots.
While moving in closer to my model, I noticed a big difference in the expressions in
her face and her body language - they changed, as I got closer. I experimented
more and began to play with this for the rest of this shoot. Not only could I see
better, it also created a much better flow of the energy and communication between
my model and myself. For years, I have been shooting fashion pictures using
medium-length telephotos, at times so far away that my models could not hear me
directing them. An amazing thing had happened. I could see and control so much
more in my pictures. Not to say that I will never use long lenses, just that I prefer
the new results that I am getting with wide lenses. In fact, most of my recent
projects I have shot with a wide zoom.
I find that by doing the poses and expressions in my face that I want, my models
seem to mirror mine. If I act daft, they act daft. If I laugh, they laugh. If I pull a sad
face, they pull a sad face - which always makes them smile 
Since this experiment, I have been adapting my directions to my models in much the
same way, obviously changing my energy levels to match the levels I want in my
pictures. If I want a nice soft and gentle feel, I express this in my voice and my
manor and my body. If I want high energy, I do high energy. If I want my model to
leap, I will leap.
Think about this as if you were a conductor. The next time you attend a concert,
watch him or her, and watch the orchestra. They mirror him - fast tempo, slow
tempo, and medium tempo. You can do the same with your models.
Fashion pictures for me have RHYTHM and TEMPO. If you want to express high
energy or tempo in a picture, the shoot has to be high energy or tempo, or visa-
versa.
I look at pictures and sometimes wonder how boring the shoot must have been. I
love to change the tempo up and down whilst I’m shooting, I would hate it if anyone
viewing my pictures did not feel this energy. This is why I strive to make my shoots
exciting for myself, my model, the other members of my team, and, most important,
for my clients.
As a photographer, you are the conductor, your models are your orchestra, and your
clients or viewers of the pictures are the audience. So you have to direct and
entertain. Your performance will reflect in your pictures.
I want you to try a little experiment. The next time you have people over to your
house or you get a moment with some people at work, pick a volunteer. Face each
other, one or two feet apart, don’t speak, and don’t look at each other. In fact, do
your best to imagine they are not there. Stay like this for 30 seconds and remember
how this feels. Stay in this position but hold each other’s hands, look into each
other’s eyes, smile at each other, don’t speak. Instead of imagining they are not
there, do the opposite. Try and send them all of your good energy. Stay like this for
30 seconds. Remember how this feels, and compare the feelings. Ask your friend or
colleague and the others to explain how it felt for them. The next time you are
shooting pictures, remember all of these feelings.
Bruce runs courses, master classes and workshops that give students an insight
into the fascinating world of fashion photography. Instructor and photographer
Bruce Smith teaches the fundamentals of preparing for a fashion shoot and
setting up and photographing a shoot. “Introduction to Fashion
Photography” is intended for anyone who wishes to shoot fashion images for fun in
order to impress family and friends or for those who have a burning desire to
become a professional fashion photographer.
Bruce’s objective is to helps young photographers, initially to produce single fashion
shots and eventually to produce fashion stories that would not look out of place in
today’s fashion magazines.
With a fashion photography career spanning 30 years, Bruce has shot projects in
many parts of the world from Alaska to Thailand. For the past 3 years he has been
giving workshops, lectures and talks in various parts of the UK as well as abroad,
teaching hands-on the skills and techniques he has learned during his professional
career.
There are several variations to the courses that photographers can take, from an
online 8 week intense practical asignments course to 5 day master classes in
beautiful settings in the South of France and Italy. Bruce teaches studio photography
on his fashion and beauty or Glamour and Fine Artistic Figure and Nude
photography workshops, held every month in fabulous studios in South West
London. Students can expect to learn a lot of the secrets behind Bruces amazing
fashion, beauty, glamour and fine artistic figure and nude photographs.
His work can be seen on his web sites:
http://www.brucesmithphoto.com
http://brucesmithphotoworkshops.bravehost.com/online.html
You can read the many letters of thanks from his former students. There is also a
students gallery where you can see the standard of photography his students are
achieving in a short period of time whilst attending his photography master
classes and workshops.
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The first thing I do every morning when I wake up is head for my computer. It holds the secrets to my day. I read my e-mails from several accounts, check my schedule on my Outlook calendar and even find out how much money I can spend that day from my bank’s Web site. I’d be lost without my computer.
However, I have one huge frustration - privacy invasion. In the last three months alone I have had the privacy of my personal computer invaded in so many ways I am starting to feel like it is public property instead of my own property.
My home page has been changed without my consent. My search engine was set for Internet Explorer and was changed to some search engine I never knew existed. Hidden programs have infiltrated my computer and set it to randomly open windows to casino ads and porn sites.
My e-mail is constantly bombarded with ads from companies that claim I have “opted” into their e-mail list. As if I would waste my time asking someone to send me e-mails that are deleted as fast as they are received. Can I have a little orange juice with that spam at 6:30 in the morning?
Since I have my own server, one of my e-mail addresses is not related to any of the big name e-mail sites like Yahoo, Hotmail or America Online. But those nasty little computer geeks have even invaded that part of my privacy by using my server to send out e-mail ads. They get tons of money from the dupes who actually buy into their money-making schemes, and I get to have my account flooded by all of the undeliverable e-mail. Isn’t that just peachy?
My biggest frustration comes from the pop-up messages I receive when connected to the Internet. A friend of mine explained the technical aspects of this phenomenon to me, but I don’t care about how it happens. All I care about is that it does happen. I get pop-ups about all kinds of stuff. I have received several pop-ups inviting me to learn how to enlarge my penis. Last time I checked, I didn’t even have a penis.
I even get pop-ups telling me how to not get pop-ups. Now that is frustration to the nth degree. If I could, I’d reach through the lines that connect me to those privacy thieves and pour my orange juice all over their geeky little heads. But alas, I have no such super powers.
Is it really necessary to feel victimized in your own home at your own computer? Luckily I know someone who helped restore my computer to its original state, but that doesn’t stop the spamming or the pop-ups and it doesn’t protect me from future invasion.
Each state has its own anti-spam laws to protect people from this type of privacy invasion. Illinois passed its first law in 1999. In California, outgoing Gov. Gray Davis recently signed a bill that made a tough stand on spamming with fines from $1,000 per e-mail and up to $1 million per mass-mailing incident. However, the truth of the matter is it is very hard to catch and prosecute these privacy thieves.
How about a do-not-call list for computers? As a matter of fact, the U.S. Senate passed legislation last week that would increase penalties for spammers on a national level and would start a do-not-spam list. Anyone have a pen handy?
Although spamming is only one of the many invasions of privacy on my computer and although this new legislation has been too long in coming, I have to admit I’m quite relieved to see help is on the way. Until then, I will try to go about my daily routine without allowing those privacy thieves to get me too frustrated.
However, I do not intend to share my OJ or my toast with them - unless they like OJ as shampoo.
About the Author: Stella Ramsaroop is a western world traveler, a life-long student, a wanna-be stargazer, and an Aquarius in all its forms (if you know what that means). Her articles emphasize the importance of the continued development and protection of gender equality in all aspects of a woman’s life.
Visit Stella’s Website at http://www.newsparade.com to read her current articles and to contribute your thoughts.
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[Episode Five]
Arizona BlueGunfighter
The Wolves Nestin the North
[Episode Five]
Northern Minnesota Area-
Winter of 1877
Chapter One of Seven: The North
The area was known as Pigs Eye [St. Paul, Minnesota]; Northfield was a little more notorious since Jessie James robbed the 1st National Bank, in September of last year, and more to the West. But that was neither here nor there for Arizona-Blue. He didn’t like this part of the country for no other reason than it was cold, unpredictable weather, and he didn’t seem to offer enough freedom, it wasn’t bad thirty years ago, but it had become too tame, Even Mark Twain thought so. His conclusion of why he was here was: ‘Sometimes you just keep on riding and riding and end up where you don’t care to be.’
As his rode through the thick of the snow, he had come to a cabin, up in an area where the deer was running as wildto and froas the mavericks were down in Arizona, Texas and Wyoming. He smelt the smoke from a nearby chimney. He was a hundred and fifty plus miles North of St. Paul, but it seemed like he was in the Artic.
As Arizona came to a cabin, a man came out of the front door onto his porch. Two wolves stood by his side, a rifle in his hands. He noticed in the back of his house about thirty-more wolves tied to the fence; ‘…strange…’ thought Blue.
“Can I help yaw stranger?” asked the man on the porch.
Blue knew most everyone in this area did not know his name, and that was one unconscious reason he chose the Midwest I suppose, a time for a rest of wondering whom was going to shoot you in the back, or who you had to tangle with next. His reputation out West was preceding him wherever he’d go, but here, up here in the Midwest who could know his name? No one he speculated. Northfield was to hot for anyone like him, after the James Gang shoot out, and St. Paul looked like St. Louis, a conservative little city on the banks of the Mississippi, not enough get up and go for him, plus they sold little books on him: “The Fast Gun of the West: Arizona-Blue.” They did on all the gunfighters such as: Billy the Kid, Jessie James, Wild Bill, and so forth.
“I need a place to lodge for a day or two. I’m half frozen.”
The man laughed and motioned for Blue to tie his horse up out side and come in.
As Blue descended his horse, a young boy came out and took his horse saying,
“I’ll bed him down a spell, feed him for you sir.”
Blue heard the Midwest was quite hospital to strangers, they had to be, because sooner or later you ‘all ended-up needing the others help. ‘This kind of gives yaw a nice feeling,’ he told himself.
As Blue entered the house, he noticed a slim middle aged woman, boiling some stew (about thirty-six years old he’d guess).
“Some hot cider Mister?” she asked.
Blue was not sure what that was, but he knew it wasn’t whiskey.
“Sounds warming, I guess that’ll be just fine Miss…,” unsure how to address her.
She smiled, and commented:
“You’re not from around here I gather, you got a Southwestern accent?”
“I’m called Arizona; I guess because that is where I am from.”
“Arizona what? She asked.
“That’s it Miss, just Arizona, that’s what my pop called me, no more no less.”
She smiled again, the man came back in from the backdoor of the house, stomping the snow off his feet.
“Hi yaw, my names Harry,” he extended his hand to shake Arizona’s, “and this is my wife Feba, she’s Spanish, and a little cute wife at that.”
“Harry! stop making me blush.”
“Well,” said Arizona, “it looks like you got enough wolves around here.”
“I raise them. They can come in handy.” That was all that was said about the nest of wolves. Arizona got the drift of things, it was private, and he wasn’t about to step in on a man’s privacy.
“Mr. Arizona, please give your jacket to my boy, Tony.” He was standing in the back of Arizona. He hadn’t heard him come in. As Arizona took off his jacket, Harry, Tony and Feba noticed the guns. Arizona had one tight against his thigh, and one tucked into his belt.
“You won’t need them here sir,” said Harry with a little concern.
Arizona smiled. He was not a wanted man in Minnesota, or for that matter anyplace, just a notorious man, and seldom heard of way up in the North Country; and this was new country for him; if this was Wyoming, or Texas, or for that matter Tombstone, or Deadwood, the guns would stay. But he started to unbuckle them; then handed them to Harry to put away for safe keeping.
“How are the Indian problems up here?” Blue asked.
“Sometimes it ok, other times you just don’t know. We had several cabins up here a year ago, and the Chippewa’s burned three of them down. Rapped the women, after getting drunk, and took off. The Indians are all over the place. You just never know. I hunt bear and fox and sell the furs down at Fort Smelling. And yaw, some of the Wolves you see, end up being furs. Yaw got to eat. I hate killing them though.”
Harry noticed Arizona watch where he hung the guns up; right on the coat rack that lead to the front door.
“If you need them mister, they’re right there for the grabbing.”
“I got the picture, Harry.”
“Now for the dinner, it’s about 11-below zero out there, not too bad for the dead of winter. You’d think it was 10:00 PM, but it gets dark quick up here, its only 6:00 PM. Not much daylight in the heart of winter. Tonight it will get down to 20 + below. It’s like the cold knocks the sun out early I swear. It’s going to be a cold, cold winter, stranger, I mean Arizona.”
As they all four sat down to eat, Harry said grace, thanking God for his wife, son, and that the stranger did not get frozen like an ice cycle before he found his cabin.
“Let’s eat,” says Harry, and plunged into the hot stew.
The stew was great, though Arizona, as he took his third helping.
“My name is Alex, Mr. Arizona. Are you a gunfighter? You know, like Jessie James, and Billy the Kid?”
“Hush,” said Feba, “Mr. Arizona is a gentleman, not a killer.”
Said Harry, a bit uncomfortable with the guns hanging where the coats and hats hung:
“Mater-of-fact, if you don’t mind, what is your line of work?”
“Well, that’s a good question. I’ve been a soldier, fought at the Battle of Chickamauga, and I was sheriff for a while, and a deputy. And I guess you could say a cowboy of sorts. Not sure what a gunslinger is, but maybe that to.”
“Jack of many trades I see,” commented Harry.
Feba looked at Blues eyes; she was almost frozen by them. But her husband was the jealous type, and said nothing, just smiled and continued to eat her stew.
Dennis Siluk is finishing up his most recent book, “Peruvian Poems” it shold been done shortly, and published in the following months [29-poems in English and Spanish] look for it. You can see his other works at http://www.bn.com or http://www.amazon.com
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As the old adage goes, nobody’s perfect. There are things in this life that people do on one instance only to change his or her mind after a few minutes or so.
On eBay, there are instances wherein online shoppers or bidders may find retracting a bid inevitable due to some unforeseen circumstances. Others find it tricky and sellers may find it maddening. But whatever the point is, buyers may still retract their bids even if they won the item.
As much as the seller would be professional about the matter, buyers should also, by all means, do the most civilized thing to do - inform the seller about the reason why he or she would not push through with the sale.
However, buyers may also do this legally, that is in accordance to the eBay policies. Buyers may declare a “clear error” especially when there were things done inadvertently. For example, the bidder mistakenly typed $100 instead of $10.
When things like these happened, the buyer has to make appropriate actions at once. All they have to do is to tick the “Services” link situated on top of the navigation bar. On services, the buyer should tap the “Retract Your Bid” link found on the “Bidding and Buying Services” section. The item number should be placed on the space provided in the Bid Retractions page.
Automated explanations are available and can be used by the bidder. Then, after the buyer had clicked on the “Retract Bid” tab, the bid amount will be deleted from the auction.
The eBay management, in reality, is reasonable on things like these. In fact, eBay may accept whatever reasons buyers have whenever they want to pull back a certain bid. But then, it may pose harm on the bidder’s reputation in the future.
This can be tolerable especially if the reasons are valid, but nevertheless, it’s still a big no-no when doing business on eBay. In the first place, it was clearly stated on the buyer’s guide that the bid serves as a contract that binds the buyer to a commitment to make the necessary purchase of the item he or she had won.
What’s more, bidders may even lose the credibility and the chance to bid at some point especially if their bidding history were made known to most sellers.
Indeed, retracting bids on eBay is not such a good practice to make, and can be a hard habit to break.
All of these things boil down on one common point. That is, the buyer should never bid on an item if he or she is not yet even sure of buying it.
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When dirt bike racing was in it’s infancy riders wore whatever was available to protect themselves. Open faced helmets, Jofa pants, leather protection… as the protective equipment was not specifically made for dirt bike racing, riders looked more like confused hockey playing bikies than dirt bike racers!
As the sport (best sport in the world mind you became more popular, the growth was then able to sustain ‘parallel’ or complimentary manufacturing industries. Companies like JT USA, Sinisalo etc. could now focus primarily on making only motocross gear.
More money was now being pushed into research and development of motocross gear, sponsorship of riders and marketing programs
More emphasis was being placed on style so colour was added to gear to match dirt bike colourings or just to be outrageous and different. Pink was big mid eighties (I did not say it was always in good taste).
Body armour moved to be worn over the top of race jerseys therefore they became more stylised to appeal to users. In itself becoming a fashion statement, but was researched and tested to also be practical and offer maximum comfort. Today’s body armour has ‘floating’ shoulder cups as well as flexible back and side panels to cater for both sitting and standing positions when riding. Can come in a range of colour options including clear as well as built in kidney belts on some models.
Race pants received there own special treatment made out of heavy duty nylon with doubled stitching, extra room in the butt to cater for the crouched/sitting riding position as well as cordura, kevlar and leather panels in high wear areas such as the seat and knees. Spandex panels are used to allow for movement where necessary. A quality race pant will offer extra room in the knee area to allow for knee braces that more and more riders are wearing.
Jersey material went from cotton to sweat/moisture wicking polyester/cotton blends to offer greater comfort for prolonged periods of riding. Vented panels were placed in ‘hot spots’ and even little touches like rubber strips in the tail to hold them into the race pants on even the roughest ride.
Boots were being designed to deal with high impact landings and ultimate ankle protection. Replaceable soles and buckles prolonging their use. They are now carefully constructed to avoid the damaging lateral and hyperextension movements around the ankle area.
Dirtbike gloves - choose them wisely and make sure they fit correctly. Some gloves are better suited to certain types of riding than others. Motocross gloves offer better feel for the rider with less padding in the palms. Enduro gloves can be the opposite with more padding to give greater comfort for longer rides.
Elbow protection can be found in a “sleeve” that also covers the forearms. Knee/shin guards are lighter as well as stronger and some hinder ‘lateral’ movement of the knee (gone are the days of using skateboarders protection). Although with the onset of lightweight, composite materials it is possible to have the ultimate in protection with knee braces.
All this protection would mean nothing if you cannot see. So it is very VERY important to properly protect one of your greatest assets (as well as one of the five senses) in your sight. Different goggle manufacturers have their own registered names for their lenses, but they basically mean the same thing - scratch resistant, shatterproof protection for your eyes.
So next time you go for a dirtbike ride, dress in the latest motocross gear and be comforted in the knowledge that you have minimized risk to your body as much as possible. That will allow you to focus on what you are there for… enjoying the ride!
The old saying is still as true as ever - “dress for the fall, not for the ride”
Mark Sturge is the webmaster at http://www.dirtbike-action.com A site where visitors can find information on motocross gear such as the motocross helmets as well as useful hints and tips for dirtbike enthusiasts.
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