Leathers or Jackets with kelvar ?

**Motu** · 22nd September 2005, 14:32

You gotta pay for quality - but...if I got my Spidi jacket half price on sale,is it only half as good as the full price model?

**jrandom** · 22nd September 2005, 14:39

Originally Posted by parsley

Leather smells nicer.

not after a long ride in hot weather with a large fat smelly man sweating into it, it doesnt.

**vifferman** · 22nd September 2005, 14:55

Originally Posted by TwoSeven

The only trend I dont like in both leathers and synthetics is the use of these plastic inserts that are so called protection. I prefer the impact resistant foam instead - seem to get less bruises from it).

My jacket (Teknic) has padded kevlar pads on the outside of the elbows/shoulders, and underneath those are pockets, which house CE armour. Yes, this is plastic, but it has foam on the inside, so it gives the best of both worlds.

Originally Posted by Lou

That's where quality matters. All textile isn't the same. My Spidi jacket wasn't even marked from a similar slide and I've seen another Spidi jacket after a 110 km/h 'off', there were two small holes over the elbow armour and scuffing on the back, that was it.
Yet I've seen a Spool jacket that nearly had a sleeve ripped off from a low speed slide.
You get what you pay for.

Agreed.
I really like my Teknic jacket, and I'm wondering what to replace it with, especially now that it's a hybrid of leather, kevlar and Cordura. The Cordura, despite being high thread count (1000 denier, IIRC), wore through very rapidly in the first slide I had, which was only a couple of metres at less than 40km/h. Not impressive, especially given my leather boots and trousers have withstood multiple 'abrasive episodes' with little more than an application of shoe polish being required.

Originally Posted by dawnrazor

During my trawling of the web for jackets recently, i'll noticed a couple of brands are bringing out leather and cordura combo jackets, so leather in the high impact zones and cordura in the parts that need to breath which are usually different areas, all they have to do is make it close to 100% water proof with removable liners and vents and you have a jacket for all seasons, rather then the i'm too cold i'm to hot, i'm too wet nonsense i'm currently going through.

Yup. That's what my jacket currently is like, but it's getting a little tired: the fabric's very faded (and presumably somewhat degraded by UV); the velcro doesn't work as well as it used to, and it takes frequent applications of Scotchgard to keep the rain out.

**dawnrazor** · 22nd September 2005, 15:02

Originally Posted by Motu

You gotta pay for quality - but...if I got my Spidi jacket half price on sale,is it only half as good as the full price model?

No thats what is known in the trade as a bargin. Thats like saying if i steal a spidi jacket does that mean i'll never crash.

and other moronic progressions

**Lou Girardin** · 22nd September 2005, 15:10

Originally Posted by Motu

You gotta pay for quality - but...if I got my Spidi jacket half price on sale,is it only half as good as the full price model?

Yes. It's got the cheap bastard curse on it.

**Ixion** · 22nd September 2005, 15:13

Originally Posted by Motu

You gotta pay for quality - but...if I got my Spidi jacket half price on sale,is it only half as good as the full price model?

Well sorta. y'see the reason it was half price was cos it's only the *front* of a jacket. Cos they knew you'd spend so much time admiring y'self in the mirror that you wouldn't notice there was no back. So, as long as when you come off you keep face down, it'll be fine.

**SlowHand** · 22nd September 2005, 15:19

Originally Posted by Sniper

Nothing is as cool as a man dressed up in leather on a bike

That sounds so sexy

Damn! why did I get fabric! should've got leathers!! Dont say no yet, here's a preview

are leathers much of a all rounder tho? I dont see it being too comfortable when wet - hey that should be a road sign!

**Ixion** · 22nd September 2005, 15:21

Originally Posted by Albin

Damn! why did I get fabric! should've got leathers!! Dont say no yet, here's a preview

are leathers much of a all rounder tho? I dont see it being too comfortable when wet - hey that should be a road sign!

They're usually OK , in so far as it takes a heck of a lot of rain to soak leather through enough to wet you under it. But the problem is (a) wet leather weighs a ton cos it absorbs the water ; and (b) it takes days and days to dry out.