About Riding Pick Gear Notes

Who writes Riding Pick Gear Notes and what it covers.

Riding Pick Gear Notes is a plain-spoken set of guides to motorcycle riding gear: helmets, gloves, boots, visibility, and how to read the reviews and listings that try to sell them to you.

Who writes it

The guides are written by Jody Varnham, a pen name for a year-round commuter and weekend tourer who has bought plenty of the wrong gear and learned from it. No engineering, medical or testing qualification is claimed.

About this address

This domain was previously used by a riding gear website. This site is independent and is not connected with that business, its owners, its staff or its product recommendations. Nothing is sold here, and no orders, accounts or warranties from the earlier site are handled.

How the guides are checked

Definitions are linked to Wikipedia so you can read the source. The guides avoid crash statistics, prices and replacement intervals because those depend on the maker and on local rules.

Revised 2026-11-12 · Jody Varnham