been wanting one of these for a long time and glad i got it. i’ve been searching for the perfect vest for a while and getting frustrated with everything else i’ve tried. for all my efforts, i don’t think the perfect vest exists, buy this is pretty near.
zippered chest pocket is great. orientation of the zipper is smart—you pull it down to close it. anything that you throw in there while on the bike kinda comes to a rest in the bottom of the pocket, near your armpit. secure.
the two way main zipper is great. i love being able to pull the lower zipper up a bit to keep the vest from bunching up on the bike.
they run large. i usually wear a large, but i got a medium (i’m 6’8”, 200 lbs for your reference). there’s room to wear it over a hoodie (and even my leather, thanks to the side expansion panels—which, by the way, don’t look bad when they’re not expanding, the way some elastic panels do on clothes). also runs nice and long, which is great for a very tall person like me.
big front pockets that’ll swallow a pair of leather gloves.
one star deducted because it would be nice if the outside chest pocket had a flap and button on it.
top notch vest though. lining is sick, seams and edges are all nicely finished. i’m probably gonna buy another just to have it when this one dies (after, i anticipate, a long life).