If you want leather , I'd highly recommend Fox Creek, great quality , lifetime guarantee , US made and great service. I have a leather HD coat that gave op the ghost after 3 years .

My new Fox Creek is much better made

 

If I were buying a new one, I would take a hard look at Vanson.

http://www.vansonleathers.com/

 

I have the FXRG and wouldn't trade it. To me a jacket is like buying a car- what do you want it to do and how many options do you want. The FXRG is great quality and has all the options. Don't need or want all the options than you can find less expensivejackets elsewhere, including less expensive HD jackets. Want the same options as FXRG but not an HD jacket and price,now it gets interesting finding something out there to compare it with option for option in other brands.

 

I agree 100%. I have a traditonal biker jacket that I bought from J.C. Whitney for 88 bucks fifteen years ago. It's a Pakistani made steer hide jacket. It's seen ten's of thousands of miles in all kinds of weather and one nice hard wreck. It's still in good shape. The cows and thread in Pakistani are just as tough as they are in America.

If you don't want a traditonal jacket, you can get other styles for 100-150 bucks as well for places like Leather Up or swapmeets that will work just fine. I "retired" the aforemention jacket about 5 years ago and bought a new foreign made on with of a different style with a different zip out liner. I paid 100 bucks for it. It has seen a lot of miles over the past 5 years and still looks good.

Here's a good place to look for leather.....

http://www.jaminleather.com/

 

well i found one at the dealer for around 200 bucks, so i think i am going to go with that one. thanks guys

 

Me too. Bought mine 30 years ago and it's still going strong. Just slick it up with neatsfoot oil now and then, buff it up and it looks almost new. Last year I needed to get a jacket for hot weather. Got a Joe Rocket mesh jacket. Mesh is the best thing to happen to bike clothes in decades.