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“I loved that the thing could be worn off the bike without me looking like a Dakar reject”

MACNA EIGHTY ONE JACKET

From MACNA, one of Europe’s leading apparel brands, comes the Eighty One jacket. Kinda cool in its look and stylish enough to wear off the bike as well as on-board.

The idea here is that when it gets warmer, just remove the thermo liner. There’s a soft shell nylon blend with Night-Eye reflective finish, Safe-Tech CE shoulder and elbow armour and CE Back Protector prepared. Keeping out the H2O is the Raintex waterproof and breathable membrane, and there’s a zip-out thermo liner as well.

I gave this jacket a pretty hard time. It got the very worst of the Melbourne

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