Skip to main content
Dainese Smart Jacket (black/hi-vis yellow) and Alpinestars Tech-Air 5 (grey) airbag vests hanging on wall hooks. Post og:image

Motorcycle Gear Journal

Judged after a year, not after the unboxing.

Two airbag vests, the Dainese Smart Jacket and the Alpinestars Tech-Air 5, worn against each other through a year of weather and one low-speed mishap.

What the gear did when it mattered.

One post so far. More as the gear earns it.

The other three sections.

Travel, riding, food, and gear. The same rider, the same roads, written up afterwards.

  • Travel

    Long rides, and the places they ended.

  • Riding

    The riding itself.

  • Food

    Restaurants and hotels reached by motorcycle.

Join the interest list.

Argentina, Thailand, or Italy. Say which.