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I threatened to do a thread on this jacket, so here it is. I've struggled over the last few months to find myself a decent blue leather m/c jacket - I've snared some crusty old ruins off ebay, and a gorgeous 70s Interstate Leathers jacket that's sadly too tight for me to wear.
As I'm learning to ride, ideally I wanted a jacket with provision for armour, but equally one that didn't overdo the look and kept it reasonably subtle and wearable. Once I stumbled on a special price for this jacket, my mind was made up.
It's a difficult colour to photograph accurately, at least it is using my knackered phone camera. So you'll see that most of the pictures look slightly different from each other. But nonetheless : it's a terrific dark, rich blue. The jacket itself is a simple cafe style, without much adornment beyond a neat little flash of white striping on the shoulder. There's quilt stitching on the shoulders too, and the elbows - but there's no padding there, because you've got the removabla armour of course. There's also a zip out thermal liner.
The jacket shipped with a full complement of armour included; shoulder, elbow and back protector.
I've been wearing it constantly since it arrived, albeit with the armour removed for daily wear. It's starting to show some creasing in the sleeves already, which to my eyes looks pretty cool. But I don't know how this will break in or show wear really, as the hide is buffalo, which I've no experience of.
Pictures :
As I'm learning to ride, ideally I wanted a jacket with provision for armour, but equally one that didn't overdo the look and kept it reasonably subtle and wearable. Once I stumbled on a special price for this jacket, my mind was made up.
It's a difficult colour to photograph accurately, at least it is using my knackered phone camera. So you'll see that most of the pictures look slightly different from each other. But nonetheless : it's a terrific dark, rich blue. The jacket itself is a simple cafe style, without much adornment beyond a neat little flash of white striping on the shoulder. There's quilt stitching on the shoulders too, and the elbows - but there's no padding there, because you've got the removabla armour of course. There's also a zip out thermal liner.
The jacket shipped with a full complement of armour included; shoulder, elbow and back protector.
I've been wearing it constantly since it arrived, albeit with the armour removed for daily wear. It's starting to show some creasing in the sleeves already, which to my eyes looks pretty cool. But I don't know how this will break in or show wear really, as the hide is buffalo, which I've no experience of.
Pictures :
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