The concept was to provide the owner with the ability to add or remove sections of the jacket and pants to compensate for various temperature and weather conditions.Īlthough the Alter Ego outfit looks like yet another Joe Rocket take on a short jacket/pants riding outfit, the difference is that the “Rock Tex 660” fabric sections of the Alter Ego’s jacket and pants can be un-zipped and removed, revealing a Phoenix-like mesh underneath that offers plenty of air flow. The Joe Rocket Alter Ego jacket and pants combination come about as close to that goal as current technology will allow. The result is a fragmented market for motorcycle clothing, with products that work best only in a very narrow range of temperatures and conditions.įor example, Joe Rocket has been a leader in hot weather riding gear with their very popular Phoenix jacket(and pants), and other companies like REV’IT! offer some of the best cold and wet weather motorcycle clothingavailable.īut we figured that sooner or later, technology would give us the Holy Grail: a single motorcycle riding outfit that’s flexible enough to provide comfort in all conditions while also offering decent protection in case of a fall. Jackets that keep a rider warm in the winter are, for the most part, too confining in the summer. The temperature and weather extremes that motorcycle riders experience have made it hard to find that single jacket and pants combination that will work throughout the year. That’s the analogy that kept coming to mind as I peeled away the layers of Joe Rocket’s interesting new Alter Ego outfit.įrequent webBikeWorld visitors will know that we’ve been skeptical about motorcycle clothing that claims to offer multi-season protection from the elements.

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