Slatin MotoGear SMG-1 Four-Season Jacket | Gear Review
Slatin MotoGear SMG-1 Four-Season Jacket.
My home territory?New England?is famous for its four-season climate. New Englanders are also renowned for thrift, so I wanted to test Slatin MotoGear?s SMG-1 Four Season Riding Jacket, which sells for $199.
If you?re thinking, ?I haven?t seen Slatin MotoGear in stores,? you?re right. Co-founder Richard Slatin says he has sold direct to customers since entering the market in 2015. Bypassing distributors, retailers and their markups enables him to include materials and features you?d expect to find in jackets that cost more.
The SMG-1 jacket has a 600-denier Cordura polyester shell with CE-approved armor in the back, shoulders, elbows and forearms. High impact areas on the shoulders and elbows/forearms are reinforced with SuperFabric, which features rows of tiny epoxy polygons printed onto Cordura. It provides abrasion resistance while retaining the flexibility of the underlying fabric. SuperFabric is highly heat-resistant and reportedly 15 times more abrasion-resistant than Kevlar. I didn?t test SuperFabric?s abrasion-resistant properties personally, but Richard Slatin did. He had himself dragged over pavement and gravel road surfaces, both with and without SuperFabric on the test jacket. He said it made such a difference he decided to include it in his products. SuperFabric can be found on some other apparel brands, too, but typically on jackets that cost hundreds more.
The SGM-1 is cut long in back so it doesn?t creep up, and self-...
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