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Finally, I found an answer to what to do about my riding jacket. |
The new red jacket I got for riding my Royal Enfield Bullet in 2021 has served me well, with one exception: it has a hood.
Although useful when I'm not riding, the hood has the unfortunate determination to balloon out behind my helmet at speed, like a drag chute.
My 1999 iron barrel Royal Enfield doesn't need a drag chute. It's slow enough already. My previous (yellow) jacket had a hood but that hood folded neatly into the jacket collar. My new red jacket doesn't have this feature.
I'm not a fan of wearing the hood inside my helmet. I don't mind wearing a helmet, but helmet plus earplugs plus hood would be too much. I'd hate to have to hack the hood off a new jacket with scissors.
But wait, what's this? The new red hood has a Velcro strap on the top of the hood. Never seen anything like it. It must do something.
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Velcro tab wraps into and around fabric hook in jacket. |
With a little experimenting I found that if I folded the hood just right the Velcro strap could be tucked into and around the fabric hook inside the neckline. This effectively turned the hood itself into a collar.
Tested at 1999 Royal Enfield speed, the hood stayed nicely tucked and out of the slipstream.
Did Lands End intend the jacket to work like this? If not, I still don't know what other purpose the Velcro strap could have served.
Clothing rarely comes with an instruction manual. Maybe it should, at least for guys like me.
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Velcro tab holds hood in shape of a collar. |
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