To match or not to match.

[He Man]

bike is gloss black, my jacket is black, my helmet is metal sparkle blue. NY GIANTS!

[patroldawg]

I'm already enough of a poseur as it is  so, to intentionally match would just put me over the top

[Privateer]

I try to match or complement, but also try to not look like I feel out of the Ducati accessory catalog.


andy

[herm]

1-visibility
2-that you can live with

[woodyracing]

my helmets have to have red in them (my racing superstition) and my bike is red but its not intentional.  I wore the same helmet with my white/black and yellow/black track bike

[Goat_Herder]

I think having the helmet matching the bike might be a bit much.  (I have a yellow 620)  Don't want to look like a poser or a clown.  I got a solid metalic gray helmet to match the frame and my gears are black and gray.

[psycledelic]

Don't match unless your bike is black and your helmet is black (red/red is barely permissible).  And don't get one of those replica helmets.  They look like someone puked on your head.



<No idea why I have such a strong opinion on the subject or whether I even believe myself>

Not much on the replicas, but I do get a chuckle out of that Rossi hemlet.  Now if I could get my dumbass face on the top of a black exo700.  Best of both worlds!

[psycledelic]

1-visibility
2-that you can live with

The black does have a big disadvantage with visibility.  Although sometimes I think I could be in hunter orange, have lights and a siren, and fart like the General Lee horn, and the crazies will still pull out in front of me. 

[superjohn]

Red helmet, red bikes, red jacket.

I don't think they HAVE to match, I just did it. It's not like I'm going to buy all new gear if I get a new colour bike (do they make anything other than red?  )

[the_Journeyman]

I go with what feels nice and looks nice.  Currently I have a KBC Airbourne. 

JM

[geoffduc]

I think it look's cool that my Dainese tricolore helmet match's my s4rs tricolore 

The guy that bought my 2007 s4r which was red with white stripe had the whole bike repainted to match this 2008 ducati stripes helmet, and heres me thinking that you matched the helmet to the bike and not the other way round 

[Bun-bun]

Matte black Icon Mainframe on a monster dark, but I wear a Joe Rocket Corona jacket in summer that doesn't match anything atall.
My buddy rides a yellow 620, yellow helmet, jacket, gloves. I'll buy him yellow shoes for his next birthday.

[supakpow2]

Shoei Eric Bostrom replica. I liked the flames on it.     doesn't match my red s2r.
otherwise I don't care if it matches or not, just that it looks good. solids always are a good neutral look.
I like Nakid's lid matching his bike though.

[redxblack]

White is the least naturally occurring color in nature so I roll a white lid.  Like I give a rats-ass what I look like while rollin'! 

Visability first....

+1 -- I went with a red and white model of a maker that fit my head well. If I were picking for aesthetics, mine would be one of the last lids I'd pick.

[teddy037.2]

the lid? I just like it.

jacket's red because it fit, and was on sale at D store... I could live w/o the big  72 on the back of it, but whatever.

gloves and boots are black, only because rocking white sidi's on the street woud just be silly. make the beast with two backs that, maybe I should!

bike's red, but that may change.