Mar. 9, 2007 - Who's ready to go racing?

I am in such a good mood today, it's in the 50's, I'm on spring break, and all thats missing is an autocross. The first warm day of the season usually makes me feel like this, so much so that I even got up at 8:00 am despite no school or work this morning (those who know me know that is quite unheard of for me to do) and got my bike running. I then immediately proceeded to take it for a ride. Therefore, I figure this is a good time to review all my new gear since I now have some actual experience with it. I finally picked up my new Moto GP Corkscrew jacket exactly one week ago in the middle of a snow storm (I live in the midwest). The fit is great, nice and snug with all the armor in the correct positions, venting is superb with the majority of the air entering via the perforated leather panels on the chest and arms (nearly chilly with the liner in on a 55 degree day), and the armor is good. I had previously purchased a set of hard plastic armor to replace the dual density armor in this jacket, but upon inspection this jacket does not accept it because it attaches and stays put in a different way than how Joe Rocket does it. But not to worry, upon inspection I also found that the dual density armor is far superior to the foam stuff that Joe Rocket uses. Moto GP's armor is a hard rubber on top of soft rubber, which is why they also call it dual density, but it is just as good in my opinion as the hard plastic stuff. So the plastic stuff went into my old Joe Rocket textile jacket since my friend will probably be using it this year.