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I've been looking at jackets just to see different features, and my questoin is, is leather better than synthetic stuff, and will armor make any differences in crashes? My friends dad has a really nice leather jacket with several armor plates, and that thing feels like it could be put through a tree shredder and still come out alive (not literrally, but you know).

Either way, which jacket is the most effective at preventing road rash, leather or synthetic, and is the armor worth the money?

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as a newb having take three spills already, I'd say, get something with armor. Work for me.

Also I have both a leather and the Textile jacket and I just feel 10 times safer in my leather jacket. However, I also feel 10 times more comfortable in the Text.

Go fig.

Thomas

I somewhat touch on this in my video here

For the most part, the thickest leather has more abrasion resistance than textile. But Textile has other advantages that leather dosn't.
I think if you want the best of both worlds, get a jacket thats textile, but has leather affixed to it in strategic, well thought out places.

There are many different types of armor, and not all armor is as good as the other. There are good ones, and then there are better ones.

I talk about all of this alot more indepth here at
http://totalmotorcycle.com/BBS/viewtopi ... ht=#166110

eaglecatcher wrote:and is the armor worth the money?

Only if you fall off.

Which means - yes.

textile is more H2O resistant, scuff resistant, and can come in either wind resistant or allow it through

I have a textile winter Jacket (Dri rider)

I have a textile summer jacket (Alpinstars)

both have amour and both do the job

get leather/armor. i warn you though, some people say leather doesn't get hot in the summer and thats sometimes true, but if you commute (you are in traffic), (unless you commute without going into traffic) then you will feel the leather literally burn on to your skin if your not riding and letting the air through your jacket but it can be solved by unzipping the top half of your jacket and your wrist zipper and opening the little pockets and stuff so its actually alright, but it does get pretty hot in a leather jacket if you are under the sun but of courses its better than being in a t shirt because then you would be pretty cold, but I wear a t shirt under my jacket so that might be why, if you wore a long sleeve shirt, it might not be so hot but you'll be sweating like a damn elephant.

Thats why you wear a sport fabric underneath that wicks away moisture and allows whatever venting in the jacket to operate. It should be formed to the body yet smooth, and breathable.

Koss wrote:Thats why you wear a sport fabric underneath that wicks away moisture and allows whatever venting in the jacket to operate. It should be formed to the body yet smooth, and breathable.

Like Dri-Fit or something else?

I'm sure dri-fit is along the same lines. There are so many different names for similar fabrics it can make one dizzy. As long as you feel like its not trapping in heat and not making you sweaty. Cotton absorbs sweat or water, which is good, but it dosn't evaporate it very efficiently.