What is your opinion on Rev'it SeeSmart padding?

smackhappy

smackhappy

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What's up team.
I hope you're having a good quarantine.

Question for the masses:

What is your opinion of Rev'it's SeeSmart Protection?
https://www.revitsport.com/en/learni...tective-armor/

I tried on their GT-R Air2 Jacket with this in the elbow and shoulder and I have to say it felt SUUUUPER flimsy.
https://www.revitsport.com/en/jacket...44699.html#101

Though it's rated CE 1 it feels flat and floppy as a pancake.
I cant imagine it offering any real protection...

Does it work? is it a sham? Were they able to squeak by a CE1 rating by testing under just the right conditions?
Or is the stuff legit and Im being old school to think that padding needs to feel like armor?

(I've never played with the D3O stuff but they must share the same properties.)

First-hand experience with going down while wearing the stuff is especially welcomed.

Thanks!
Chris from NYC
 
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matty

matty

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I'm curious about this too, seems like it would be quite comfy and if it offers the same protection as my Forceield armor I might be sold.
 
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usedtobefast

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This website does a pretty good job of explaining the levels: https://www.motorcyclegear.com/info_pages/faq_armor_ratings_explained.html

I have a ~12 year old Spidi Jacket ... it has hard plastic and some sort of padding armor in the elbows and shoulders ... it seems awesome. Like someone could hit you with a hammer and you'd only feel a dull thud.

I recently bought a new ~$600 jacket with this newer style "armor" and it seems like a bad joke. It would certainly fail the hammer hit test!

Just using common sense, I'd rather be in the Spidi if I hit the pavement. The tiny fancy padding stuff in the new jacket just doesn't seem like it could really do much when hitting and sliding on the pavement/ground.

Seems like they have made standards and testing, and then companies figure out how to meet the testing ... but, does that really translate to a better product? Not sure.
 
berth

berth

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usedtobefast said:
Seems like they have made standards and testing, and then companies figure out how to meet the testing ... but, does that really translate to a better product? Not sure.
Click to expand...

Depends on what "better" you're looking for.

If the tests/certifications are valid and fair, and all the materials past the tests/certs, then they're all "at least" as good as the certification.

After that, you start losing tangible judgement without side by side testing.

So, then the question becomes whether the tests/certifications are adequate to the task at hand. If they are, then how much "better" and above/beyond the standard as manifest via the certification, do the materials need to be?

Then there's the intangibles. "I don't find XXX as comfortable as YYY" or "In my QQQ jacket the XXX moves around while the YYY does not".
 
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