Dainese Jacket Alterations? - Ducati.ms

mainframe · May 25th, 2011, 8:41 am

I'm curious if anyone else has had this problem and how they addressed it.

I have the Ducati Corse 10 jacket by Dainese and the cuffs are huge. The rest of the jacket fits me fine (6'1" ~195#) and until a few days ago only wore shorty street gloves with it. I picked up some Alpinestars gauntlets (hoping to finally get on the track soon) and the only way I can get the jacket cuffs to go inside is to fold them up. Only a few minutes of riding they've managed to work their way out. After having a JR jacket for years that was snug around the wrists I thought it a bit odd when I got my new jacket with these huge cuffs. I mean I don't even have to unzip the lower sleeve to put it on and I wear L/XL gloves depending on brand.

So for every problem there is at least one good solution. Add another snap? Have a sliver of leather next to zipper removed? F*** it, duck it?

I'm leaning towards having a little wedge of leather removed from next to the zipper. It seems like the easiest route. I actually have a sewing machine that will sew clothing/upholstery grades of leather and it's only a couple of straight stitches per zipper. Seems like a pretty easy DIY job. If one were to to take off sewing on something designed to save your bacon, what kind of thread would one use? Kevlar?

wyoduc916 · May 25th, 2011, 8:54 am

gloves go over the sleeve when wearing gauntlet gloves. it will keep bees and rocks from going up your arm.

mainframe · May 25th, 2011, 9:16 am

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Originally Posted by wyoduc916

gloves go over the sleeve when wearing gauntlet gloves. it will keep bees and rocks from going up your arm.

Precisely my dilemma. I grabbed a quick pic to detail my idea. Basically remove the area in red (imagine it's straight, sorry) then reattach the zipper and relocate the snap.

mysticbluex3 · May 25th, 2011, 10:03 am

I'm 5'10" 150lbs and the the sleeves are a bit short for me.

Planespotting · Jun 2nd, 2011, 8:02 pm

I know what you mean. I just purchased a Dainese Alien and the cuffs are huge. I believe they ate designed to work over/under gloves depending on what you want , thus the extra material. Annoying though since the folded portion when I zip them seems to sneak out of the gauntlet on my A* gloves. I'm watching for other gloves with longer gauntlets.