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Has anyone heard anything good or bad about Frank Thomas jackets? There's one in my size on clearance at a local shop but I don't know if it's any good, so any opinions on the jackets as a whole?

anybody? So nobody has heard anything about Frank Thomas gear at all?

Nope, never heard of it.

They had a lot of it at my local CycleGear. The leather and textile jackets that I looked at seemed high quality, but much more expensive than I've seen for other similar brands. Never worn the stuff, though.

Well I looked it up on the web and it seems to be a European brand, which would explain why the jacket in question fits me (I'm European shaped!).

There were two things that made me a little uneasy though, one was that the site said that they don't use ballistic nylon in all of their jackets(they use some sort of proprietary fiber). The other was that when I went to a local shop (not cycle gear where they sold the Frank jackets) and asked about Frank Thomas gear both clerks told me how terrible it was.

Seems that a friend of theirs had bought a Frank Thomas suit that ripped down the seams in a crash. Now I'm inclined to believe them, but on the other hand they mentioned Cycle Gear and they could have just been thrashing a competitor's product.

Either way I doubt I'll get the jacket because I lack faith in it. But I would like to know if the guys in the shop were telling the truth.

Kitty wrote: when I went to a local shop (not cycle gear where they sold the Frank jackets) and asked about Frank Thomas gear both clerks told me how terrible it was.

Hah!