Dainese Jacket

                After I bought my 848 I realized that I also have to buy some riding gear to go with my bike. With my previous bikes I didn’t see s necessity in a leather jacket, boots or gloves. Now that I have such a powerful bike with 130hp attached to my right wrist I felt the need to start gearing up for my own good. The biggest worry I had was my torso, so I decided to invest in a leather jacket first. Luckily, one of my dad’s friends let me borrow his old leather jacket to use until I bought one. Picking out a leather jacket was a lot more work than I expected because there are so many different brands and types. First I had to pick which brand I wanted to buy from. There are many different brands but the two that seemed ideal to me were Alpinestars and Dainese. After reading many reviews about each brand I decided to go with Dainese. Now I had to pick the type of jacket I wanted, there are touring jackets, summer jackets, rain jackets, racing jackets, multipurpose jackets and textile jackets. After a good bit of research, I decided that I wanted a racing leather jacket because they offered the most protection and look the best style wise to me. Now there were even more subdivisions, there were racing jackets with titanium inserts, some with carbon inserts, some fully perforated, some partly perforated, some non-perforated, some with aerodynamic speed humps and the list literally goes on and on depending on how much money you have. I decided for me I wanted a racing jacket with composite protectors at the elbows, titanium inserts at the shoulders and a slot for a back protector.   The jacket from Dainese that had all of the features and was appealing to me just so happened to be called the “Racing” jacket, who would’ve guessed that? After buying the leather jacket, I was $600 poorer. Once I got the jacket in the mail I immediately took it out of the box and tried it on, fit like a glove. The leather was so smooth and flexible, the composite elbow protectors were confidently sturdy and comfortable and the titanium inserts on the shoulders were top notch and added to the appeal of the jacket. The inside of the jacket had a very nice sanitary liner that is designed to keep cool air in when it’s hot and warm air in when it’s cold. The jacket itself was a deep black with red accents across the arms and read Dainese across the front in white, making it very appealing to me. A nice feature of the jacket is that it has a zipper the goes the circumference of the waist that allows you to attach a pair of Dainese leather pants to the jacket, making it a two piece leather racing suit. Everything on the jacket from the stitching to the coloring to the tags was top notch and worth every penny I paid for it.