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I have a very expensive and nice leather jacket from Florence, it is a rider's jacket but pads can be removed because it has a very nice mesh holdings from them so it can double as a casual jacket.

But I don't think I want to ruin it from something as I'm still a new rider. Anyone have any feelings like this? Should I buy another jacket ? Or are these jackets repairable! I do feel weird wearing it when it's cold and I'm not on my bike though. What would you guys do?

edit: first posts, but have lurked a lot for information!

Eh, I'd wear it casually.

I'd also wear it to ride with. That way when you're wearing it casually you can pick up chicks with how sexy and durable you are once you point out the road rash on the jacket (as opposed to it on your skin once the cheaper jacket breaks).


But that's just me.


Edit: How the hell am I a veteran with 51 posts? I don't even own a damn bike yet lol.
Stupid postcount system.


On a side note I'm not sure how "very expensive" your jacket is so the cheaper jacket arguement might not hold up. a $500 jacket is cheaper than a $1000 one but is still likely to hold through. A $80 jacket though...not so much.

How nice is nice first off?

I know what ya mean, my first jacket was a 300 dollar alpinestars jacket. I thought, awesome, but i didnt want to tear it up to much when i was practicing and learning in parking lots. May seem economically dumb but i just went out and baught a $75 used old mangy jacket to learn with and as to not destroy the nice jacket. Good thing i did, in the month or so ive been riding and practicing with my friends bike as i save money to buy my own i have worn 3 hole into this thing, cracked one of the so called armor plates and throughly ruined it, im just glad i didnt do that to my nice jacket. So id say, if possible and if you dont feel comfortable wearing your jacket, go find a junky one and use it for a while

Welcome to the forums, glad to have ya

JWF

JWF I doubt your expensive jacket would have done that though.

I think the arguement between an $80 jacket and one that's probably engineered a lot better (hence the higher price) is kind of skewed.

It was 500 Euros, which in around 750 USD. However if you were to get that jacket in America it would be a lot more since it was made from the leather school or something like that.

I think maybe I will pick up a crappy jacket for a few months. Or only wear my nice one when I wear it to go out (to pick up the wimminz )

I do wear it since it's cold now and it goes great with jeans and I just take out the extra pads, but I feel odd since I go in and get in my car instead of on a bike, if people ask me about it since it clearly looks like a riders jacket but also like a designers I just say I'm planning on riding or something, but for still learning in a parking lot and in empty streets, I'll get a cheap one.

Shiv wrote:JWF I doubt your expensive jacket would have done that though.

I think the arguement between an $80 jacket and one that's probably engineered a lot better (hence the higher price) is kind of skewed.

Maybe, but i wasent about to find out


JWF

Considering that you probably weren't doing even 40 (hell, 30 even) in the parking lot you'd better hope that your other jacket can hold up to speeds of 40+.


Just my thoughts while I"m procrastinating studying (again....why can't subjects be interesting?)

Shiv wrote:Considering that you probably weren't doing even 40 (hell, 30 even) in the parking lot you'd better hope that your other jacket can hold up to speeds of 40+.


Just my thoughts while I"m procrastinating studying (again....why can't subjects be interesting?)

I hope it can, i do i do, i also hope i can hold up better againt sliding on assfault (how do you spell that?) for 3 yards better than the junk one did. And subject are uniteresting for me because im being forced to learn them. Take motorcyles for instance, im not being forced to learn about them, but i am, a whole lot. But you like that you might say, sure, but i like history to, my current major, but i dont like being forced to learn about things. I may find the magna carta intresting in the right mood, but when its being beaten into my brain it stinks, if that makes any sense



JWF

A good jacket should be able to hold up to a lot.

My MSF instructor said that in his only crash he was going 80 miles per hour. He had gone over a hill and didn't see the cracked asphault (the correct spelling btw....I think) ahead and his front tired got caught into that and jerked to the left and well, he went over. Said he slid for at least 300 feet on his jacket and boots (he was wearing jeans so he arched his back to give the full blow to his jacket and boots).

His bike went 1/8 of a mile or so (650 feet).

And I agree with the interesting subjects thing. Why do you think I'm here on a motorcycle forum instead of reading about something that happend over 300 years ago?

Shiv wrote:Why do you think I'm here on a motorcycle forum instead of reading about something that happend over 300 years ago?

Because nothing that happened 300 years ago is more important than motorycle knowledge, i know a lot of history, and seriously, its all, well not as important.


JWF