Textile jackets. What’s good?

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I think my Wolf Titanium 3/4 length all-season jacket is nearing end of life. Some of the Velcro is giving up as well as a lower seam stitch. It’s been excellent but it’s time to look for a replacement.

I’m not taken in by Gore-Tex, Outlast or all that “breathable” rubbish and I don’t want to pay Rukka prices. It just needs to be shower-proof without absorbing its own weight in water. I use PVC-type outers in really wet weather.

What’s good?

[Nobby the Bastard]

I have a weise jacket and RST overtrousers.

A pair of weise trousers left me with no injuries depite them basically being destroyed after a 60 MPH off in the fast lane of the M5.
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Sprint ST 1050

[MarJay]

I have a cheap IXON textile jacket, and it's really good. Warm in the winter, cool-ish in the summer and it's yet to leak. People rave about the Rukka stuff, but seeing as it costs ten times as much as my jacket, I'm happy to keep it until it leaks, and then buy another (if I can find one).
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[Easy-X]

I have an IXON jacket, definitely a solid pick I prefer something a bit lighter in the summer though.
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[Freddyfruitba...]

Very happy with IXS textiles here (from J&S)
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[Rob W]

I currently wear one of these:

https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/454417

Held up well in a few downpours that I've been in and wasn't that expensive.
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'16 GSX-S1000F

[Blueberry]

The Oxford Hinterland jacket and trousers get glowing reviews. Allegedly, it’s on a par with Rukka without costing Rukka money:

https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/reviews/products/textile-jackets-trousers-suits/oxford-hinterland-review

The Hinterland is CE ‘AA’ rated for protection, whereas many similar-priced textiles only get the lower ‘A’ rating (crap protection).

[grr666]

I buy most of my gear used so whatever's a bargain.
Hein Gericke, Ixon, Furygan, SIDI, Alpinestars are all in my wardrobe.
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[ThunderGuts]

I've got an IXS jacket which is "fine"; it was about £180 I think, it's fairly waterproof, has some hi-viz flashes on it for visibility and a handful of vents. Find it comfortable enough, although the wrists are fraying a bit now (nothing structural, just cosmetic). 4 years of use. Probably will replace it next year - that Oxford Hinterland stuff looks really good actually; I like textiles but most have an "official" abrasion resistance of A rating at best, so the Oxford stuff looks good. I know there are some high-brow brands with better, but I'm not spending 4 figures on a jacket/trouser combo.
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TG.

[Blueberry]

[ThunderGuts]

This is true. What frustrates me a bit is it's feasible to make textile trousers (i.e. aramid jeans) that can be AA or even AAA rated and relatively inexpensive (RoadSkin do some that are, or were, circa £150) but that tech never seems to make it to jackets frustratingly (for the most part anyway). Surely the affordable tech is there, someone just needs to weave it to a different material than cotton and apply a waterproof backing layer and you've got a highly abrasion resistant, waterproof, affordable jacket?
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[to v or not to v]

whats wrong with leather these days?
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[ThunderGuts]

I just don't like it; it's hot in hot weather and appalling in the rain. I just find textiles so much more comfy. It suits my riding.
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[to v or not to v]

will textiles hold up against leather in a crash? ive always thought not.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Walked away from binning it it in the fast lane of the m5 with just a few scratches. My textiles were trashed though..
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Sprint ST 1050

[Freddyfruitba...]

[TbirdX]

Just come back from Malta, over 30 degrees every day and the most protection I saw on the scooterists (and most of the other bikes) was a slightly thicker flip flop sole.

Don't know what the accident rate there is but the outcomes must be far worse whatever it is!!
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I just got £40 jacket and £40 bottoms off ebay. I've got about 50k on them - the jacket's dirty as fvck now, and won't come clean. And the velcro is all tired and rubbish - but I just carefully cut the stitching and glued some new strips on. Obviously you can only really do that once, but so what at that price.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/163469798326?hash=item260f8f2bb6:g:F68AAOSwHglcMK7l

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265085688149?hash=item3db8569955:g:joYAAOSwnmxgR8eZ
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[Freddyfruitba...]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

Yes please!!
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[to v or not to v]

maybe someone could help you simulate it with a belt sander.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

so crazy it might just work!

https://c.tenor.com/uNPlmy9cBU4AAAAM/mac-gyver-smiling.gif
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Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125