03-17-2018, 05:57 AM
My riding jacket is a Joe Rocket Resistor, textile and mesh hybrid, with CE level 1 armor in the shoulders elbows and fore arms. I added a Forcefield CE level 2 back protector to replace the back pad the jacket came with. Here is the rub with a lot of jackets these days, they either do not come with a liner, the liner is a vest style, or it is a thin rain liner. I suppose this is a manufacturer cost cutter, or the intent may be to get riders to buy different jackets for different temperature ranges...who knows. My jacket came with a zip in/out quilted liner. I contacted Joe Rocket to see if I could buy a rain liner, and a long sleeve quilted liner for my jacket, and guess what...they do not sell liners separately. Finding a rain liner on EBay was easy, as there always a bunch of them for sale, but the long sleeve quilted liner was a long hunt. I finally found one, and now I can use my jacket without liner, with the rain liner, with the zip in quilted vest liner, or the long sleeve quilted zip in liner. The result is one jacket for all temps except when it is really cold, and in that case I probably wouldn't be in a riding mood anyway. I imagine the same could be done with most brands, and with a little luck, a brand A liner may still zip into a brand B jacket because I would bet a large percentage are all made in the same factories. I just found a size Large long sleeve quilted zip in Joe Rocket liner on EBay for real reasonable. If anyone needs or wants this kind of liner, the EBay auction number is 202251657208 . As hard as they are to find, I dont think it will be available for very long. No, that liner is not mine or anyone I know, just putting it out there for some other member that might need or want one.