Very good quality open weave mesh jacket with hefty-feeling armor and excellent air flow. Mesh motorcycle clothing has evolved dramatically...
When thinking about San Diego, CA, people imagine a beach city with a mild climate that’s always 70 °F throughout...
You have to give a lot of credit to Icon. After all, they busted in to a market jam-packed with motorcycle clothing brands from A to Z and beyond. Yet they’ve managed to mix it up pretty nicely. Icon sort of just appeared out of nowhere a couple of years ago with...
Review Summary: The Klim Induction jacket is a lightweight, visible, and tough jacket that makes an excellent choice for hot...
We’d like to thank the RevZilla team for providing this REAX Apex Pro jacket at no-cost for the purpose of...
Being that I live in a very warm climate, I was eager to test any jacket that offered good ventilation as well as solid protection. And the added benefit of the Motonation Metralla being designed for a woman was an added bonus that doesn’t come along very often. I ride...
Introduction With the Summer of 2021 fast approaching (or already here depending on my publish date), I found myself looking...
The Dainese Air Frame jacket is also new for 2012. The Air Frame is a lighter-weight motorcycle jacket designed to...
The Scorpion EXO Transformer Jacket: Multiple Garments for One Affordable Price There is perhaps no better brand in the world of motorcycling gear than Scorpion EXO when it comes to providing value for money. Need proof? Their Transformer Jacket can be worn in no less than five (count ‘em!) configurations,...
Scorpion Cargo Air Jacket: a Ventilated Summer & Hot Weather Jacket The ride review for this jacket will admittedly be...
This is the third in our series of reviews featuring Alpinestars mesh motorcycle clothing. First up was the Alpinestars T-Stunt 2 mesh...
It must be summer in the Northern Hemisphere. How can we tell? The volume of email requesting reviews of mesh jackets and other hot-weather riding apparel has been on the rise. Just for the record, we’ve reviewed tons of hot weather motorcycle riding apparel over the years. So if you’re looking to...
I have long admired REV’IT!’s ability to combine a high degree of technical specification with modern style – clean, slim...
The Scorpion Vortex Air Jacket: Awesome Budget-Friendly Summer Gear To not put too fine a point on it, the summer...
Every riding enthusiast appreciates versatile motorcycle gear. When I reviewed the Alpinestars Andes V3 Drystar Adventure Tourer jacket through the month of April, 2021, at the time the weather was, for Calgary, Alberta, seasonal. Varying between 5 C and 20 C (41 to 68 F), it was perfect weather that...
Despite the love I have for my REV’IT! Arc Air mesh jacket, I soon learned through the month of July...
have become very popular in the few years that they’ve been on the market, and with good reason. They’re a...
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Summer weather is just around the corner in this part of the world, meaning that it’s a good time to...
The Icon Hooligan 54 is a fun — even a little flashy — women’s mesh jacket for hot days on...
Like the Pilot Visto Air high-visibility jacket I reviewedrecently, the even simpler Pilot Slate Air jacket works as advertised. It is a comfortable and well-made mesh-based high-air-flow garment and costs just $99.99. Large sections of “Pilotex” micro-mesh fabric provide the ventilation. Strong and durable sections of 600 denier textile with CE-rated...
The Tourmaster Intake Air Series 2 is one of several Tourmaster jackets that have similar design features. It is available in...
I’ll take a wild guess and say that something like 97% of motorcycling is done in fine weather. So one...
Potential for motorcycle riders not quite realized. Back in the old days, automobiles didn’t have seat belts or padded dashboards, much less “passive restraint systems” like airbags. Airbags were something you read about in a Popular Mechanics magazine “Cars of the Future” article. Why would anyone possibly need or want...
The Joe Rocket Phoenix mesh outfit is reasonably priced. The jacket fits well and it flows a lot of air....
It doesn’t get much cooler than this. The Firstgear Hypertex Mesh II jacket has excellent air flow. The pants aren’t...
The Teiz Motorsports Sahara jacket is a comfortable, functional garment. It served me well throughout the entire 15 days of the western portion of the Trans America Trail ride. The fit — bespoke in this case — was great and if you don’t notice your gear when wearing it, it’s doing something...
A hot weather jacket that is a happy medium between keeping you cool and keeping you protected. Beating the heat....
I was hoping to get this review out of the way several weeks ago, back when the weather was at...
The Joe Rocket Phoenix Ion Jacket is a variant of the long-running and ever-popular Joe Rocket Phoenix mesh jacket (review). Our feeling is that there’s not all that much difference between the standard Phoenix jacket and the Phoenix Ion version. There is one thing though: the “INNOLITE” reflective coating on the...
The new Spidi Ventamax mesh jacket is a summer version of the Spidi Multiwinter H2Out jacket. Both have what we call...
Review Summary If you’re looking for the main takeaways from this review, here’s my summary of the Cortech Rambler Wax...
The Joe Rocket Phoenix 5.0 jacket is, as its name implies, the fifth generation of what was once a ground-breaking design. But time has moved on and the Phoenix jacket hasn’t really improved as much as I’d hoped and expected. It still flows a huge amount of air. And the...
The Pilot Direct Air jacket is good-looking, nicely made and comes in a variety of color combinations. It’s a hybrid mesh/textile...
Can there ever be too many choices for warm weather clothing? I’m not sure if the “perfect” mesh combo exists...
The Direct Air Jacket V3 combines free-flowing mesh material with solid textiles in the impact zones. This makes the jacket feel a bit more sturdy than other “full shell” mesh jackets. But it does so at the expense of some air flow. Pilot has upgraded the protectors used in this...
Finer mesh than some competitors provides better fit. Nice styling and very good air flow keeps you cool on the...
The Rev’it Air jacket is new for 2008. It’s designed for hot weather riding and it offers sophisticated styling with...