Re: Back armor and Race Jacket

[Steven Kohlscheen <steven.kohlscheen@xxxxxxxx>]

John Hickman wrote:
<<
A salesman told me that he thinks that Triumph contracts Vanson to do their
leather jackets.  Does anyone know if this is correct?
>>

I'd guess this isn't true, but there is alot of similiarity between the
Triumph Race and certain Vanson jackets.  Judging from the Vanson web
page(www.vansonleathers.com) their back pad just needs the velcro tabs added
to a jacket and it should work.  You may need to fabricate the
"...triangular elastic panel at the back of the jacket collar."  There
aren't any good pictures in the armor section to demonstrate this.

<<
Also, I was planning on buying Joe Rocket Ballistic 3.0 pants in the spring,
does anyone know if the waist zipper on this and the Race Jacket are
compatible?
>>

If there is any consistancy in Joe Rocket and Triumph branded stuff this may
help.  I use a Truimph TT600 Paddock Jacket and Joe Rocket Ballistic
pants(2.0).  The zippers are the same length, but zip in opposite
directions, Triumph zips left to right, Joe Rocket zips right to left. In
addition  the pulls face opposite directions, Triumph faces toward the body,
and Joe Rocket faces away from the body.   Plus the actual pulls are
attached to their respective parts, which is to say the jacket has it's
zipper pull attached to the jacket, and the pants has it's zipper pull
attached to the pants.  (Still with me, good cause now it gets complicated
:>)  Both jacket and pants came with the other side of the zipper strip
zipped in.  I sewed the jacket zipper strip match to the pants zipper tab
and that allows me to zip the Triumph jacket to the Joe Rocket pants.  As an
added benifit I can still zip my Joe Rocket Rihno jacket to the pants
because I attached the Triumph matching strip where the teeth are just above
the Joe Rocket teeth.

I didn't mean to take the this far, honest, it just got away from me.  I
hope some of it helps.

Steven "Dirty Dawg" Kohlscheen
1999 Sprint ST


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