this is probably the most exciting unboxing that I have done in quite a
while I have been eagerly awaiting this shipment from new enough so that is a
motorcycle gear supply store and as some
of you know I did recently purchase a motorcycle I just completed my training
course and this is my set of textile
gear that I have ordered in order to make sure that I am well protected okay
so this is a Joe Rocket ballistic 7 .0 jacket it features C approved armor in
the shoulders and the elbows so uh
hopefully I'll be able to show that to you all right it is in theory a
waterproof jacket although the outer layer is just a simple uh textile
material there is actually a
waterproof uh believe it's a midliner
yeah it's a waterproof no it's a waterproof inliner or something like
that no hold on I I looked at so many different
jackets no no this has a waterproof outer layer it ALS it also features air
vents for if you get warm okay you can see the zippers are waterproofed so you
can open up the air vents here in the arms you can open up I believe there are
other air vents here in the chest open those up get some air flow see there's
an internal uh waterproof zipper underneath that as well I'm going to try
and get you guys a better angle on that just like that and then I believe there
are also uh air vents in the back so
that is the exhaust vent back here so you undo these clips there we go my
helmet was supposed to arrive today but Canada Post screwed up so uh I will not
actually be able to ride my bike this weekend which is very very unfortunate
okay so here I'm just going to start trying these on the idea is that I
should be able to put my riding gear on over top of my work clothes and then uh
I will be able to ride to work and then home from work on my
motorcycle okay and then I also o got matching ballistic 7.0 pants so new
enough is pretty good because uh it's cheap the jacket was on close out so
even though I wouldn't normally buy a brand name like Joe Rocket cuz it's
really expensive uh the price was right and then the matching pants were also a
fairly good deal you know what there's probably some marketing bullet points on
all of this uh convenient stuff right here on the jacket itself so Air Guard
super tenacious fabric that's good okay
excellent lightness durability freshness oh you know what something I should talk
about in terms of the fabric is the reason I went with a textile jacket is
because it does offer some abrasion resistance you do have the armor
included with it as well although it does not offer the same abrasion
resistance as leather at Street speeds though a textile jacket is going to
protect you well enough but it will probably be ruined whereas a leather
jacket will protect you and you can probably still wear it it'll just have
scuff marks on it a textile jacket's probably going to tear in that kind of a
situation so protector oh yeah this is the C armor so it does use a soft armor
inside this jacket there are hard armors as well all right here's a cross-section
of the air guard Hollow yarn cool high
technology uh fabric there I suppose
here's some other Joe Rocket stuff they do Leathers as well but uh I mean I'm
going to be riding in the rain in theory so the last thing I wanted was to uh was
to get Leathers okay the pants I believe the
pants actually zip up to the jacket you see there's a zipper right here it
includes the other half in case you have a different jacket but since these ones are matching they zip together right off
the bat these ones I bought a little bit
large because I do want them to go on over top of my
jeans and they actually have uh if they're anything like the ones that I
tried on in a local store yep they have zippers down here so you can actually
put your riding boots on here we go goes
way up the leg so you can put your riding boots on then put the pants on
here's the waterproof internal liner and there is the uh the mesh as well as you
can see the soft CE knee pad armor right there including a little Shin Shin pad
piece so let's go ahead make sure these fit because I actually didn't try the
ballistic 7.0 pants before I ordered them I tried a different series of
ballistic pants so let's see how this goes then I'll be all geared up for
riding except for my helmet which isn't here yet so I will not be riding this
weekend but I'll be thinking about it yep that's the best I can do so
actually give me give me a minute to get into the clo here and then uh cameraman
can either keep filming or he can not keep filming it's up to him I suppose I
know this is a little bit off topic as far as Tech tips go
but I don't know people seem to not really mind when I upload sort of my
personal stuff so cameraman's around behind me for some
reason getting footage of
uh me trying on these pants Oh God these
are hard to put on them there we
go okay so I did have to get the ones with
a short inseam so I got a medium siiz wayist
short inseam pan uh Joe Rocket was one of the few brands that I was able to
find that did offer short inseams without buying uh ladies pants which
there's nothing really wrong with either because they're all cut the same uh
there's only a few ladies garments for motorcycle gear that are actually cut
differently and they're mostly Jack one thing that's cool though is that
most of the ladies pants have uh adjustable adjustable pants so you can
actually fold them up and then they're like self hemming kind of thing so let's
go ahead and put these
on wow these full length zippers are a pain I think I'll go ahead and put my
boots on after I get into the pants uh
as a general rule and wow this is hot so I can tell
already on a day like today I would probably need to have the vents open in
order to uh be appreciating the armor
and gear and such so when you're fitting
yourself for motorcycle gear one of the things that's really important is making
sure that it doesn't fit loose it shouldn't fit like street clothes so you
can see my movement is actually quite restricted in this garment because the
idea is I'm supposed to be down like this and that's the only position I'm
ever in it's not about how comfortable it is is it's about making sure that the
armor doesn't shift if you move around the fabric like this so you can see that
elbow pad is going to stay right where I need it even if I'm tumbling around in a
crash that's the whole idea so there we have it that is my new motorcycle gear
and I wish I had a helmet I will update you guys if the helmet does arrive in
time for Friday thanks for checking out my video don't forget to subscribe to
Linus Tech tips cameraman was commenting the pants
don't appear to appear to fit me quite right and what I was just explaining to
him is that when you're up on the pegs all of and you're wearing your
motorcycle boots all of a sudden that little bit of extra length is going to
go away pretty fast so these were bought Just a Touch long just to make sure that
when I'm actually riding I'll still be covered from the wind so there you
go