Thanks! We do love this!

They were Alpinestars Yagura Drystar pants. Held up to the slide really well and still have them! Only spot where the fabric wore through is where the plastic and metal buckles on the Tech 7 boots were underneath!

Thanks Gary! It's a lot of work but we love doing these productions.

Thanks @paulmorris3022 we are glad you enjoyed it! It was a memorable adventure for sure!

Thanks for the compliment @MrBerry67 glad you enjoyed it!

Cheers Trevor! An adventure worth reliving for sure! GDR2 is coming up again in November 2023 and GDR3 in August 2024. ✊

Alpinestars don't really claim their airbag vests offer any neck protection and I wouldn't say you should expect it to work like a neck brace. That said when you feel how much the airbag inflates up around your shoulders in a deployment your helmet will be supported somewhat which imagine could prevent your neck from being forced to extreme angles. Certainly the freedom of movement is much better than wearing a neck brace.

@@MaschineAdventure Thanks.

​@@MaschineAdventureI just actually have found out what is the point of Alpinestars's view for neck protection. One guy asked them for that and receive a nice letter explanation. In short words: they claim spine's serious injuries appear when there is a direct impact coming from above to your helmet which cracks cervical vertebraes. So neck's stiffen makes in that case more bad than good. And injuries coming from lack of neck's stiffen is far less threat for spine than one can think but of course it happends.

@@MaschineAdventure May I ask for jacket are you wearing on this video?

@@czaras_ thanks for the feedback!

Thanks Hein! 👍

Well, it seems like all our good ideas have come from long drives. Usually late at night! So it was in 2011 when Trudi and Nick were driving home late one night and they were brainstorming ideas for our new business name. We wanted something short, that didn't pigeon hole us into one genre of motorcycles or even just limiting the business to motorcycles full stop. We were running a graphic design studio at the time and this new business would focus on event management, primarily in the motorcycle industry. We thought 'machine' was a strong name but we wanted something memorable with a little twist. Our surname begins with 'S' so we thought we would go for the German spelling of the word. So it was that 'maschine' was incorporated in 2011 and it's been one hell of a ride since!