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Rukka Shield-R Riding Suit

Jacket $1940, trousers $1340

Finnish humour is kind of dry. “Did you know that 40 percent of car crashes in Finland involve reindeer?” – “Well, they shouldn’t let them drive.”

It’s no wonder then that Rukka motorcycle clothing, which is designed in Finland, is dry as well. And not just dry the way most other riding suits are dry, courtesy of a zip-in waterproof liner. Rukka’s Shield-R suit is dry from the outside in. Let’s see how they do that.

Remarkably, it is quite simple. Rukka just makes the suit out of one hundred percent breathable, wind and waterproof Gore-Tex Pro 3-layer with Armacor, a seriously abrasion-resistant material constructed from 700-denier Cordura and Kevlar; every fourth