Joe Rocket Ballistic Jacket

In winter, I wear a leather jacket with armor. I feel very protected. In warmer weather, I wear a Joe Rocket textile jacket is made of ballistic material with breathable mesh, and it is also shielded.

How are they going to protect me? Does anyone have stories of Joe Rocket jackets save your skin or wear it around and not do you much good? I know that the answer is simple: they are certainly better than nothing - but I want to know how these jackets really take down.

I also wear leather gloves Joe Rocket armored Draggin Jeans (Kevlar), and a helmet. I hope these things will help me.

The armored vests are great. When my ex and I were dividing the property and others, Gene took his jacket, and luckily the door was about 1 week later, when a car pulled in front of him at 45 mph. Gene to date do not remember the accident. Never saw the car, witnesses report that genes bike hit the car, Gene catapulted into the air where he landed, breaking his pelvis, arm, wrist, and several other bones. 2 surgeries later, and Gene still can not drive because of neck and wrist injury. The bike has been reached. Gene could have been killed, but because of the jacket and helmet and other safety equipment, he lived and spent most of his life and work without pain. It is also to physical therapy to try to be able to run again. Had he not been wearing the vest mesh fabric armor, his back and shoulder would have probably been destroyed.

I also know a man who grew up across from his bike wearing a mesh jacket JR armored side of a hill and into a thorn bush. The jacket has saved lots of skin is torn or simply destroyed by the hill and the final resting place in the thicket.

Gear can save your life in all situations, but it will greatly reduce the catastrophic damage.

The idea is to protect against abrasion. If you fall off a bike at speed, you drag on the ground a long way. Leather has always been famous as the best protection to abrasion (does it flap in the wind), but these days there are fabrics that are just as good, plus they are better ventilated.

I have a mesh jacket for summer, and the wind passes through it, which is wonderful on a hot day. It is "classified" for resistance to abrasion as good as leather, but I always wondered. Someone on one of my M / C mailing lists was a spill and reported his jacket mesh did an excellent job. Draggin Jeans are also supposed to be good enough.

They still will not help you if you climb a cliff and roll over and over down a hill with the bike on top of you. Or if you ride in a bridge abutment, or head on a tractor-trailer - something like that. You want to keep driving as safe as you can, of course. But they can help in relatively minor accidents, which is the most accidents.

The helmet I also strongly recommend to people. Every so often they have an article on helmets in an M / C magazine that shows the percentage of helmet impacts come from which direction, and nearly half come forward. I always tell people, I might get killed, but my face will be fine for a funeral open casket. 8 ^)

Look at it this way. Asphalt is like 400-grit sandpaper, skid to 65 mph with a t-shirt and shorts and your skin is literally going to be removed from you. Put a little leather jacket and burn long before you do.

to think this way, a leather / motorcycle armored jacket is like a second skin to replace sacrificial skin. it wont really do much to blunt, but will really help you if you slip on the road from Road Rash should not be taken lightly. She holds your body and somewhat mitigate some internal damage when tumbling lik.