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.

 

[CDNolddude]

They still sell the Dakar 3 and 4 in Canada. Fortnine etc.

 

[oude geit]

I found olympia moto gear fairly easy. My jackets are old and no longer made...joe rocket has been a great jacket....trying to find something balanced between airfow and skid protection....without being black....no luck here so far.....my pet peave is jacket color. I will never understand black summer gear...jmo
Report what you decide on.....

 

[Whisperquiet]

I’ve been looking at this jacket to replace my mesh Joe Rocket. As above, I have no idea why a summer mesh jacket would be mostly black with a few color highlights.

https://www.cyclegear.com/gear/icon-mesh-af-ce-jacket?sku_id=10157192

 

[Uncle Phil]

I bought Tourmaster Ridgecrest mesh jackets after my crash.
I was wearing a Tourmaster Sonora Air in my get off but they don't make those anymore and the Ridgecrest was the closest to it.
The jack held up fine with very few 'burn throughs' considering the speed and distance I body surfed.
Mainly at the elbows but I got no upper body road rash at all.
Since I had 'tested' their jacket I felt comfortable going with them again.
Also it is very difficult for me to find jackets that fit because I need a 4XL to fit my shoulder width.

 

[drrod]

As was mentioned earlier, the Dakar is available from some Canadian distributors. You live close enough to the border that you could have it sent to Vancouver area and just ride up and get it.
https://fortnine.ca/en/olympia-daka...lwmwujCpOWzCQZDvUaAnD8EALw_wcB#76=23519&493=9

 

[drrod]

As a bit of an addendum to the CDN sourced Olympia gear......I bought a pair of their Airglide 7 pants last year and find their quality equal to the "higher end" brands. Bonus is the adjustable leg length.