How to choose a motorcycle jacket 

Your comment showed as this video came up and read it first.. then decided to watch. Like you, I've ridden over 40 years. Moved from the heavy, traditional leather jackets to mesh, with a removable waterproof liner and armor about a decade ago. 50-60,000 miles later and that jacket is faded and has needed darning a few times in spots. Shopping for a new motorcycle jacket. I somehow got down the rabbit hole of traditional leather motorcycle jackets and might have been headed to spending a large sum on one... but truly, this guy is right... I have an old 80's leather motorcycle jacket hanging in the closet if I really feel like I want to wear it (probably off the bike) and for most days... as I've proven over the past years... the layering system of a mesh jacket with armor, a waterproof liner, maybe a sweater or hoody, and a base layer is gonna take me from sub freezing to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and it's really all I need and certainly is far more useful than a leather jacket for me. Last Saturday, I left the house in 4 layers and a fleece neck gaiter before dawn and by afternoon I was down to just the base layer and the mesh jacket and it was 95 degrees. I'd have been miserable and then been lacking as where and how to strap a giant, thick leather jacket to my bike. Long winded, but again...thanks.

Fantastic review. Thanks

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Dan, yes give me a bit of time, and we’ll get there. CC

Daytona Road Star GTX are the only boots you need.

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Scott waterproof over the top is great and a balaclava under your skidlid with a long Dr Who scarf of 6 ft. Handlebar muffs covering your gloves are great and half milk container of around 2 litres cable tied to handlebars will keep your gloves dry and shielded from wind and rain so you won't be suffering chill factor in winter or autumn when in Wales for example it can be bitter. Camping in black mountains in snow or Rhonda valley in flooding isn't funny. It always happens to me when I go to Wales. I now have a high altitude mountain tent, 5 season down sleeping bag. German army surplus para boots. They stay dry and yes sometimes my feet are cold in below 0 in winter but long John's, Kevlar lined padded trousers with it is good for camping as I've spent winter dressed in it at the mud site. In Scotland the midgefest was so wet the river burst its banks in Galloway and the farmer was pulling cars, vans etc out of the mud!

Thank you!!

And, I am one of those who only wears leather.

Toy bikers maybe, gave up on leather when I started couriering.

@@chriscarbaugh3936 I suppose back in the early 70s leather is all I knew. NZ

In the sweltering heat im sure no gear feels great but id prefer to keep my skin over getting sweaty

When you get down to it, the statistics say that's a self-correcting problem. Keep riding safe!

I'd say Chris def knows his stuff, but bear in mind the info is shared with a view to what they want to sell. No doubt it's ALL good kit if they sell it TBF

Ray, we sell nice gear, and some of it is expensive, but our thing is to find the right gear for your kind of riding, and it is certainly not uncommon for us to tell a customer that he would be better served with a Halvarssons Wien rather than a Rukka Nivala at twice the price. As Steve has commented we are a sales operation, but to me over-selling is a no-no. We do that, and it will come back to bite us. Our reputation is worth more to us than a few extra quid on a dodgy sale. Yet, it has to be admitted that if you’re looking for ‘cheap’ gear, you simply won’t find it here. CP.

@@Motolegends I'll be the first to say that if ML says something is good, then it's good! There may* be other options (cheaper/better/alt), but ML is primo in my book. If I still lived nearer Guildford, no doubt I'd bug them in person on a regular basis :D

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Yes, I kind of know this suit, as it’s made by Stadler. I just found the suit to be very heavy and cumbersome when I saw it. It will be competent, I’m sure but it didn’t seem easy to live with. A suit that I really like the look of is the Held Carese Evo. Unfortunately, Held as a company is in a bit of a post-Covid mess, so right now we can’t get hold of it, but it’s a potential winner. CP.

The despatch riders swore by Rucka. It was expensive but lasted years. This was the 1980s.

You know it. Prepared for the extreme heat and rain. You know you've got to be prepared according to weather, time of year etc, and it can be difficult and full of surprises so it's often a compromise between bulk, weight , how much space you have and with tent, doss roll, toolkit, small stove, a pan etc iaint easy and bungees and panniers , top box, tank bags can be well over £1000 all in without clothing etc. Not cheap. However we travel, it can become addictive and sometimes we can be in different situations, some unexpected and even good or bad surprises. I wouldn't have it any other way and have travelled 3 months a few times with flights return to Delhi, overland to Pakistan tribal area and back into India with £180 fo3 months. That wasn't easy even with an old ridge tent and multifuel stove but were some of the best times I've ever had. Those little Indian TVS 160 cc single cylinder bikes are very cheap, reliable and economical. You can hire them cheap and they do 100mpg but 55 mph is the limit but on some of those roads with Indian crazy drivers going faster could mean you end up in hospital. They're mad especially lorry and bus drivers overtaking but also there's so many cars. A Maruti Suzuki 800cc small van shared between a few of you travelling 6 months on a long visa can work out a lot of fun and you can get 4 people plus luggage inside. Careful camping with snakes, leopards for example and also security especially in some places like Bihar or Punjab where there's very poor areas, bent coppers after back handers in with local villains.

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Difficult to say without knowing all the details, but protection-wise it sounds okay. But less convinced that it will be a comfortable solution in any kind of extreme weather; be that the heat, the cold or the wet. CP.

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Yeah, I jumped for the volume control when that intermission came on!!!

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