Wolfman
Beach Bum  
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Registered: 25-8-2003 Location: In reality Hull, In my dreams Aber Member Is Offline Mood: Wishing I was in Aber
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Neon Coloured Wetsuits
Ok while I'm ranting about wetsuits and maybe showing my age what happened to the good old days of neon coloured wetsuits?
How come you can now have whatever colour you want as long as its Black.!!Now I have nothing against black it's a cool colour but
personally I kind of like to stand out from the crowd and make a bit of a statement, you can get coloured boards and sails so why not
suits?? Plus never mind fashion, from a safety point of view if your floating out to sea and you want rescuing (hey you never know!)
who's going to see you at dusk in a black suit and hood??
Going off at a tangent but I'm also looking for some Spiderman climbing tights has anyone seen any??
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justal
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I used to have a lovely Sola Predator suit, bright yellow and orange!!!
one of the problems with the really bright suits though was that they had to use whit neoprene under the brightly coloured fabric so
that the colours weren't dulled by the usual black neoprene. White neoprene had a really low carbon content and therefore broke down
really easily under exposure to UV rays... Not a good feature for a wetsuit realy, even in the UK. Also quite a few suits a single
lined these days as its warmer than a double lined suit, so they have to be black.. Although, Spartan (and a few others) did use to
make polyproplene (I think) suits rather than neoprene suits which were brightly coloured, but I don't think they were as felxible as
neoprene so it never really caught on.
Besides, I don't think climbing out of a ferrari in a neon wesuit would be cool!! 
Spiderman climbing tights sound cool though!!!
Al.
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SeanBo
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Registered: 9-2-2003 Location: Poole Member Is Offline Mood: Optimistic!
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If you want some added colour, then the trend seems to be to wera your rashie over your wetsuit. They come in all shapes and sizes and
are a lot more colourfull than the wetsuits.
My Fatface one would look great over my suit, but I can't sail well enough to draw attention to myself!
Is there wind on the way??
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SinistaPenguin
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Registered: 9-9-2003 Location: Leamington, Midlands Member Is Offline Mood: Getting less surf than my avat
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| posted on 6-10-2003 at 10:40 |
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I have an old (and I mean OLD) Sola 3mm suit which is Blue and Peach!
Going cheap if anyone wants it!!
"...that's just the lemon next to the pie..."
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