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Let’s Talk Motorcycle Jackets

[Brad Pitt, Tom Yacht, and Orlando Bloom in their leather jacket nimbus...]

Okay so here’s the truth about leather motorcycle jackets… And this is directed by at the men - women already have a good handle on this… Hey buddy, I have knowledge of you THINK you look really forbidding in your motorcycle jacket - or you think you WOULD look cool walking around in that jacket - but you’d in point of fact look like a dork (or an a**flaw or scumbag, or like you’re present through a midlife crisis). There I said it. Even scarp stars and movie stars look like that way - it’s by the skin of one's teeth that they (sometimes) have enough cool to overcome it. Leather jackets don’t t really make you look cool - I grasp you think it does, which is why your friends have asked me to swear you. It’s kind of sad. So thanks for perception.

Now with that out of the way we can talk about motorcycle jackets. They’re for protection, not glamour. So you might want to spend the filthy lucre on the parts of the jacket that are really worth it…

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Usually, the lighter and more comfortable something is, the less abrasion guerrillas it has… So mesh jackets (mainly) have the least abrasion resistance, thicker textiles a midget more, and leather even more depending on the thickness. But the pre-eminent protection won’t be any good if it’s too hot and uncomfortable to clothes… And safety gear isn’t very securely if it gives you heat exhaustion sitting in shipping.

Venting is important. Some sport jackets have webbing or textile on the inner part of the arms and sides (where you don’t genuinely need abrasion resistance) and leather on the elbows...

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