Excerpt from: Motorcycle Addict
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| May 29, 2007 | | If you won't wear the gear, it can't improve your safety | It almost never fails. If I grab riding gear, I grab what will be most comfortable. The only exceptions are those rare occasions when I know that I will be more likely to want heavier gear. Track days, long trips, stuff like that.
So when I went recently to look at gear, I avoided gear that, while theoretically extremely protective, was too heavy, too close fitting, too hot, or otherwise too uncomfortable to have a high probability of being the gear I want to use. Of course, leather's greatest asset is the way that it molds to your needs, so this quality needs to be considered.
That said, the new CE approved armor is a HUGE improvement over the old stuff. Thinner, more flexible, just easier to live with. Soon we will be at the crossroads between more comfortable leather jackets with maybe some padding, but no armor, and jackets that you would be willing to trust under any circumstances.
As a Cordura/Kevlar fan, there still isn't anything as endearing as well broken in leather. Soon there will be no downside at all.
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