Joe Rocket Ballistic 7.0 Textile Motorcylce Jacket & Pants Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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this is probably the most exciting unboxing that I have done in quite a
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while I have been eagerly awaiting this shipment from new enough so that is a
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motorcycle gear supply store and as some
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of you know I did recently purchase a motorcycle I just completed my training
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course and this is my set of textile
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gear that I have ordered in order to make sure that I am well protected okay
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so this is a Joe Rocket ballistic 7 .0 jacket it features C approved armor in
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the shoulders and the elbows so uh
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hopefully I'll be able to show that to you all right it is in theory a
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waterproof jacket although the outer layer is just a simple uh textile
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material there is actually a
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waterproof uh believe it's a midliner
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yeah it's a waterproof no it's a waterproof inliner or something like
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that no hold on I I looked at so many different
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jackets no no this has a waterproof outer layer it ALS it also features air
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vents for if you get warm okay you can see the zippers are waterproofed so you
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can open up the air vents here in the arms you can open up I believe there are
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other air vents here in the chest open those up get some air flow see there's
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an internal uh waterproof zipper underneath that as well I'm going to try
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and get you guys a better angle on that just like that and then I believe there
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are also uh air vents in the back so
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that is the exhaust vent back here so you undo these clips there we go my
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helmet was supposed to arrive today but Canada Post screwed up so uh I will not
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actually be able to ride my bike this weekend which is very very unfortunate
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okay so here I'm just going to start trying these on the idea is that I
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should be able to put my riding gear on over top of my work clothes and then uh
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I will be able to ride to work and then home from work on my
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motorcycle okay and then I also o got matching ballistic 7.0 pants so new
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enough is pretty good because uh it's cheap the jacket was on close out so
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even though I wouldn't normally buy a brand name like Joe Rocket cuz it's
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really expensive uh the price was right and then the matching pants were also a
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fairly good deal you know what there's probably some marketing bullet points on
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all of this uh convenient stuff right here on the jacket itself so Air Guard
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super tenacious fabric that's good okay
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excellent lightness durability freshness oh you know what something I should talk
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about in terms of the fabric is the reason I went with a textile jacket is
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because it does offer some abrasion resistance you do have the armor
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included with it as well although it does not offer the same abrasion
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resistance as leather at Street speeds though a textile jacket is going to
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protect you well enough but it will probably be ruined whereas a leather
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jacket will protect you and you can probably still wear it it'll just have
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scuff marks on it a textile jacket's probably going to tear in that kind of a
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situation so protector oh yeah this is the C armor so it does use a soft armor
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inside this jacket there are hard armors as well all right here's a cross-section
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of the air guard Hollow yarn cool high
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technology uh fabric there I suppose
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here's some other Joe Rocket stuff they do Leathers as well but uh I mean I'm
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going to be riding in the rain in theory so the last thing I wanted was to uh was
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to get Leathers okay the pants I believe the
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pants actually zip up to the jacket you see there's a zipper right here it
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includes the other half in case you have a different jacket but since these ones are matching they zip together right off
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the bat these ones I bought a little bit
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large because I do want them to go on over top of my
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jeans and they actually have uh if they're anything like the ones that I
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tried on in a local store yep they have zippers down here so you can actually
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put your riding boots on here we go goes
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way up the leg so you can put your riding boots on then put the pants on
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here's the waterproof internal liner and there is the uh the mesh as well as you
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can see the soft CE knee pad armor right there including a little Shin Shin pad
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piece so let's go ahead make sure these fit because I actually didn't try the
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ballistic 7.0 pants before I ordered them I tried a different series of
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ballistic pants so let's see how this goes then I'll be all geared up for
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riding except for my helmet which isn't here yet so I will not be riding this
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weekend but I'll be thinking about it yep that's the best I can do so
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actually give me give me a minute to get into the clo here and then uh cameraman
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can either keep filming or he can not keep filming it's up to him I suppose I
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know this is a little bit off topic as far as Tech tips go
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but I don't know people seem to not really mind when I upload sort of my
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personal stuff so cameraman's around behind me for some
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reason getting footage of
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uh me trying on these pants Oh God these
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are hard to put on them there we
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go okay so I did have to get the ones with
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a short inseam so I got a medium siiz wayist
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short inseam pan uh Joe Rocket was one of the few brands that I was able to
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find that did offer short inseams without buying uh ladies pants which
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there's nothing really wrong with either because they're all cut the same uh
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there's only a few ladies garments for motorcycle gear that are actually cut
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differently and they're mostly Jack one thing that's cool though is that
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most of the ladies pants have uh adjustable adjustable pants so you can
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actually fold them up and then they're like self hemming kind of thing so let's
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go ahead and put these
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on wow these full length zippers are a pain I think I'll go ahead and put my
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boots on after I get into the pants uh
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as a general rule and wow this is hot so I can tell
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already on a day like today I would probably need to have the vents open in
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order to uh be appreciating the armor
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and gear and such so when you're fitting
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yourself for motorcycle gear one of the things that's really important is making
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sure that it doesn't fit loose it shouldn't fit like street clothes so you
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can see my movement is actually quite restricted in this garment because the
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idea is I'm supposed to be down like this and that's the only position I'm
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ever in it's not about how comfortable it is is it's about making sure that the
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armor doesn't shift if you move around the fabric like this so you can see that
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elbow pad is going to stay right where I need it even if I'm tumbling around in a
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crash that's the whole idea so there we have it that is my new motorcycle gear
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and I wish I had a helmet I will update you guys if the helmet does arrive in
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time for Friday thanks for checking out my video don't forget to subscribe to
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Linus Tech tips cameraman was commenting the pants
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don't appear to appear to fit me quite right and what I was just explaining to
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him is that when you're up on the pegs all of and you're wearing your
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motorcycle boots all of a sudden that little bit of extra length is going to
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go away pretty fast so these were bought Just a Touch long just to make sure that
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when I'm actually riding I'll still be covered from the wind so there you
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go