Jase, wears G Force innit?

You don’t say.

I ummed and ahhed over this one. It appeared on eBay and soon picked up plenty of followers. I dithered. I debated internally.

Meanwhile over on Vinted, a wonderful G Force full on cardigan appeared. I also dithered for a day or so. I then went to make my move yet the item had sold.

Arse.

There’s a lesson here Jase. See it, buy it. Yep. If only life was as simple as that.

And so a few back and forth messages were exchanged between the seller of the waistcoat and me. ChatGPT may have been used in order to position my bargaining options.

The deal was finally cut and a few days later job’s a good ‘um and the waistcoat arrived.

It was exactly as described, plus a little bit more. The quality of the knitwear and the condition - for what must be a 30 year-old vintage piece of clothing - are superb.

I date this from the early ’90s, from the Hockley shop back in the Fair City. I thought it might be a little short on me but it fits just right.

I do have a G Force Google Sheet where I log all the costings for this clobber. My heart does miss a beat each time I open up the spreadsheet these days.

Another Universal Works fleece, all the way from the Fair City - well not quite, but Universal Works has its roots back in NG1 innit.

This was a cheapo cheapo online purchase. The original listing was incredibly benign when it comes to the current costings for all things Universal Works online. Being the cheeky fucker that I am, I offered £10 lower.

Much to my surprise the seller went for it.

It arrived and it’s cuddly wuddly as chuff. It fits perfectly and is the kind of fleece I wanted for the winter months.

Universal Works is the new G Force - I think.

A Forty Plus customised cycling jersey. Forty Plus isn’t the waist size by the way.

Chapeau!

Having ridden just the solitary ride with the new Forty Plus club, I now have the Lycra so I can live the dream. All I need to do now is to get out a little more and roll out on the mega mega rides each Tuesday.

I really enjoyed the 120 km gentle introduction. Spoiler alert: I didn’t actually complete the full ride as I was already knackered after the lunch stop.

Oh dear.

But the aim is to keep on riding to live, living to ride, etc. And now with a rather dashing Forty Plus kit, I’ve got no excuses for not getting out there.

A box fresh new pair of Sports Banger trackies as part of the recent adidas collab drop. I don’t think you can actually buy these via House De Bang Bang. For memory there was a limited edition raffle with the winners getting the swag.

The original winner apparently didn’t want the swag. More fool them.

These appeared online at a fairly reasonable price. A little back and forth online bargaining was attempted but I didn’t get anywhere. In the end if you want something then you just go for it.

Having gone through a very tarted up period, maybe around a decade or so ago, I’m very much now a dress down type of guy. I reserve the right for this to all change and to return to my Cravat Ponce period once again.

Trackies seem to be the order of the day, but not any old trackies. I need something with a little bit of style. I do enjoy a good slob around.

The missing piece in my quest to try and buy up all the old Forest tops that I either once owned and flogged on, or some retro ones that have been reproduced.

Here we have a blackout kit. I know, I know. It’s what all the cool hipsters are wearing down at Selhurst.

Maybe I should clarify that: all the cool hipsters down at Selhurst aren’t wearing Forest blackout kits, but you get the idea.

This is actually a really great design. It’s based on the legendary Forest 92 green away kit that was never worn in any competitive match. Replacing the green is… black.

I’m being drawn towards black an awful lot of late. It’s a black and white world - or rather it’s a black and white world when you have a body mass that is covered in more black ink more than naked flesh.

Forest would look cool as fuck to be honest these days if they did have a black kit. Chris Wood would look the bollocks in it.

A Forest hat-trick: a black T, a vest and a beanie. What am I suppose to do when the club drop an end of season 50% off sale? The black T is interesting. It’s knitwear, and not a straight forward T as I was expecting. I quite like it. Northern Soul vibes. The vest is purely for tattoo PONCEING. The beanie is a skate style that surprisingly suits my egghead. We came SO close to Three Stars on the Badge, Comrades.

Another G Force cardi, another absolute BEAUT of a beast. tbh, I’m not quite sure what happened here. There I was one morning, slurping tea and refreshing a G Force Vinted feed and WOH! Shit the bed. £10.

BUY IT BLOODY NOW.

I didn’t even stop to check the size or any other details. My general rule of thumb for all things G Force is one size fits all - and yep, I do own some women’s items in my wardrobe.

Plus also just BLOODY BUY IT. These original items are getting rarer and rarer to source. The new Re-Imagined imprint coming out of the Fair City sells cardigans for £500. They’re worth every penny.

But ten quid for a 90’s original? Blimey.

There’s no G Force label on the cardigan, but I’m 99% sure it’s an original. The zip and cut of the collar is something of a dead giveaway. Plus who is going to be turning around G Force knock offs?

A weekend of G Force poncing around the Estuary Wilds awaits.

A double bubble bag of FUN from G Force. Well, not directly from G Force this time, but a charming Vinted seller who was a pleasure to deal with.

I’m increasingly of the opinion that these old 90’s garms are getting rarer and rarer to source. See online, BUY. And so here we have a trademark G Force gilet from back in the day, and a pair of baggy jeans.

To quote that great philosopher, erm, Sean Dyche:

“Baggy jeans, skinny jeans, baggy jeans, skinny jeans.”

I’m very much of the baggy variety these days. I reserve the right to change my opinion tomorrow, depending on the weather.

I couldn’t resist the purchase. Both sizes were spot on for me. The seller warned of very old items of clothing, that will certainly need some TLC and cleaning.

Huh? They arrived pretty much box fresh, smelling of roses. Maybe the seller has particularly high standards - or I have rather low ones.

I’m half expecting now to get the call up from some telly production company when a talking heads documentary about the old G Force Hockley store is made:

“We hear you have the largest collection of classic G Force clothing. Would you like to share your thoughts?”

Cool as fuck, innit,

Some more G Force goodness, all the way from the Fair City. I’ve been LUSTING over a G Force original gilet for some time now. I’ve only ever seen a couple of the BEAUTS from the old Hockley shop appear online.

I did win one on eBay last year. And then the dickhead seller pulled out, claiming that she had sold it elsewhere, minutes after she bumped up the price on Vinted.

Hey hoe.

But wait! What’s this? Mr G Force posed on Insta last week some pics of some of the new gilets as part of the Re-engineered range. Oh LOVELY. I’ll have a bit of that please.

The deal was done, and then this G Force 2026 style cashmere dropped in the post. It fits perfectly, and with good timing as well. Spring and early summer are made for gilets, right?

PONCE. And proud.

Another B.A.D cap. It’s not quite one of the incredibly rare corduroy editions from the late 80’s. On the few occasions these crop up on ebay, prices usually start at around £100. No baseball cap is worth £100. Instead here we have a 2011 version from the B.A.D reunion tour. Job’s a good ‘un.

B.A.D were a fantastic band. Mick managed to reinvent himself post-Clash, and then continually keep on reinventing the band as the line up and technology around him changed. They were very much of their time, reflecting street style and then the early days of rave. Yet at the core was always the same punk spirit.