About this tool

Riding Gear Budget Planner

Allocate a riding gear budget in protection priority order, see body-coverage achieved, the shortfall and months to a full kit.

A riding gear budget planner allocates the money you have in protection priority order — helmet, gloves, jacket, boots, trousers, back protector — and reports how much of that priority weight your budget actually buys, rather than how many items you ticked off. Each item is labelled with the standard it should carry: IS 4151 for helmets sold in India, EN 17092 for garments, EN 1621-1 and EN 1621-2 for armour and back protectors, EN 13594 for gloves and EN 13634 for boots. Touring extras are costed separately and score zero for protection, so they can never flatter the number.

How to use Riding Gear Budget Planner

1. 1

   Open Riding Gear Budget Planner on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.

2. 2

   Enter the values you already know.

3. 3

   Fine-tune the options to match your scenario.

4. 4

   Read the result and use it in your planning or reporting.

Why use Riding Gear Budget Planner

• Priority-order allocation

  Funds the helmet and gloves before the nice-to-haves, the way gear should actually be bought.

• Honest coverage score

  Comfort items carry zero protection weight, so the percentage means something.

• Timeline to a full kit

  Turns the shortfall into the number of months at your saving rate.

Common use cases

• Splitting a ₹25,000 first-gear budget between a helmet, gloves, jacket and boots without ending up unprotected somewhere
• Deciding whether to buy one premium item now or four mid-range items across the whole body
• Costing a touring kit — rain suit, liners, earplugs, luggage, intercom — on top of an existing core kit

Frequently asked questions