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If you have to get mesh, ( I have the original JR Pheonix ) make sure it's nylon and not poly. The original JR and quite a few of the mesh jackets on the market today are made of poly, stay away from that, it's not tough stuff. Once you look at nylon, make sure it's high quality, preferably Cordora made by Dupont. That stuff really will be able to handle a slide. Now I never crashed in any of my textile jackets, but I do have two big crashes in leather, one at 135. I walked away from both without a scratch or even a bruise which I attribute to the fact the leather keeps the crash pads in place during a slide. My textiles are much looser and I've always wondered if they would hold the pads properly.

So let me say this, if you are looking at say $150 textile, why not just throw in the extra $100 and get the TZ-1 or some other equivalent jacket, from say JR, MotoGP, Shift, Icon, they all are offering sub $300 dollar leather jackets of what the marketing people would call the high end of mid-line interms of quality. They all have venting and removable vests that extend the usefulness. Fieldsheet sucks. I was tricked into buying both a jacket a pants, and they both failed without even crashing.