Everyone who ever stepped on a motorcycle knows this feeling: discovering within half a kilometre that the scarf you just wrapped around your neck eight times isn’t tight enough and the cold wind is still creeping into your motorcycle jacket. If only you had chosen the REV’IT! Velox 3 GTX WINDSTOPPER …
The Velox 3 GTX feels like a warm embrace. Soft too, textured and shaped like softshell. The nose section is made of mesh – oxygen is important – and it is sufficiently stretchy to slide over your head with ease. This is a purebred windstopper. We mention this explicitly because, despite its water-repellent features, it’s not 100% waterproof as the ‘GTX’ in the name might suggest.
So, a windstopper. By GORE-TEX LABS, no less, though in this form it is primarily innovative shoftshell technology, developed by experienced and skilled professionals with one particular goal in mind. This explains how breathability, light weight and moisture wicking properties are perfectly on par, and why it should be used to stop wind, not per se to guarantee 100% waterproofness.
Then again, the choice is obvious: you don’t wear the Velox 3 GTX as a first line of defence. You wear your motorcycle jacket over it and a motorcycle helmet is always nearby as well. The Velox 3 GTX Windstopper serves as the rear guard, combatting wind that was able to force its way through the first barriers.
The wind stopping properties of the Velox 3 are almost boundless – just to be sure. At the top, this windstopper reaches all the way up to your nose, at the bottom, it reaches up to your perfectly developed and muscular chest and back muscles.
Do you feel the large chest and shoulder panels are too much of a good thing? The Karma 3 GTX Windstopper is more compact yet has the same qualities.
