The quality of the jacket is good but it fails the everyday claim in its description. I wore it on a 170km dry ride, without the liner,where the temperatures ranged from 15C, mostly 17C, (early in the Highlands) but the last 50km (after lunch) where temperatures were in the high 20C's. I can see including the liner will benefit much lower temperatures and be good for anything but the worst of Winter (South Coast NSW). It's the warmer months where it will fail. Only one set of zipped vents on the fire sleeve, they fail as they are not long enough, next to no benefit felt. The area that cost the star is the inner zip. I am guessing the waterproof aspect of the jacket became the priority. In my personal view, it should have had a mesh strip top to bottom to allow the outer zip to be opened, when needed. A horizontal zip on the back should be standard on all bike jackets. The test was done on a R1250GS, but the jacket was bought for my Goldwing DCT Bagger which has a touring fairing. For my GS, I am 4 star happy with my Sand 4 jacket, where zip quailty lets that one down. I anticipate it will be better at lower temperatures on the Goldwing bike, but not much better at the high temperatures, heat is heat, it hits you from everywhere. I suggest the description be amended, this not an everyday jacket for the warmer countries, but say for most of the UK it would be.
