Summer Jacket Recommendation?

[Daboo]

I'm asking the collective brains on the forum for a summer jacket recommendation. My Olympia Dakar jacket is finally needing to be replaced. It has definitely served me well. If Olympia still sold gear, I'd buy another.

So what do you recommend? Why do you recommend it?
If you have something now and found later that you don't like it...what do you recommend not getting. That could be more revealing than you'd think at first.


I'm not sold on the idea that more $$$ equals better value. The top brand names have catchy phrases for their proprietary material...but is it better really? Is polyester still polyester even by another name?

So help me out here please.

Chris

 

[Larry Fine]

If you have something now and found later that you don't like it...what do you recommend not getting. That could be more revealing than you'd think at first.

Sounds like someone who reads the one-star reviews, too.

 

[Daboo]

Sounds like someone who reads the one-star reviews, too.

Yeah, and the two and three-star reviews too. I rarely read the five-star reviews. You know what they'll say before you read it.

Chris

 

[SMSW]

I bought Joe's Klim Induction jacket. I love it. It is mesh and I wear it under my Turtle 2. No idea how it will perform in an @Uncle Phil get off, and I'm not planning to test it. I can feel air flowing thru the jacket at only a few mph.