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Aerostich Darien Jacket and AD-1 Pants

I had just received the Aerostich Darien jacket and AD-1 jean-cut pants and was excited to try them out while on a two-day motorcycle trip. I was expecting to ride through rain, sand and hot weather, so the ride would make for the perfect test of this riding gear.

The Darien jacket is made of tough, abrasion-resistant 500 denier Cordura with a GORE-TEX lining, while the AD-1 is fully seam-taped HT500 denier nylon with a three-layer GORE-TEX lining.

I started off in temperatures of about 10 C. With the jacket’s vents zipped closed, I was incredibly comfortable and found the gear breathed but didn’t allow the wind to affect my core temperature. The temperature slowly rose past 23 C and I began to feel the heat. Opening the pit-zips

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