Originally Posted by Dragin
I can tell you from very recent personal experiance about the Icon TiMax jacket. Yes it flows alot of air and is much cooler than my leather but at 70 mph on a sweeper I still ended up with quite a bit of rash on my arm and shoulder and tore the shit out of my shirt with not much visable damage on the jacket. Also keep in mind that this jacket fits me very snug. I could only imagine if it was loose fitting. Wish I would have been wearing my leather one though.
Also gloves are very important and get some that have armor on the knuckles, I would have any knuckles right now if not for them.
I think the some of the ICON gear is designed a bit more towards style than protection. I have a pair of of ICON mesh pants and for gods sakes they don't have any reinforcements for arbrasion resistance on the butt area. The CE knee armor moves around enough to be totally useless inside the pants. I ended up modding a cheapo pair of MX style knee protectors to hold the CE knee armor in place where it belongs. I thought it was funny that ICON does sell some "abrasion resistant" shorts you can wear under the mesh pants for another $100 or so.
I'm curious, has anyone ever tried out some of the evaporative cooling vests under a mesh jacket? I have some doubts on how effective this is going to be in our humidity.
TechNiche makes a vest for $30.00 and I'm thinking of trying it out for that price.
http://www.newenoughmx.com/ti_cooling_vest_page.htm