Review: Furygan Orona Jacket

Hello everyone.

Firstly I must thank y’all for visiting, yesterday (11th March) was my highest viewed day, with….actually I just went to check how many visits I had, and today is even better than yesterday!!! 123 people visited today! with 112 yesterday! So thanks again, it makes life worth living.

Anyway, as mentioned in the Scottish Motorcycle Show post I purchased a new jacket, one which I had wanted for ages. It is called the Furygan Orona.

Now before I get in to the review, I must add that for the first time since getting a motorcycle, I have a motorcycle jacket that isn’t RST, and for that I am over the moon. My first jacket, the RST Elektric was ok, but now all the armour is 4 inches from where it’s meant to be, the leather has stretched, I had to get the zip fixed because it ripped off and it’s heavy, probably down to the 50-50 textile/leather mix.

I saw the Furygan Orona in an old MCN, and they said that it was widely available…my arse. I hunted high and low for the white with black bits Orona and was completely bummed when the only place that had them were shops in France. So as said before, you can imagine my utter joy when I spotted the white with black bits Orona hanging in clear view at the show. Blair was busy trying on the Icon stuff, which was nice, but I was b-lining it for the Fury stuff.

Then, imagine if you will a human heart. Then imagine a 12″ meat cleaver slicing through it. The white with black bits was a medium, and I am a large. PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE OTHER SIZES? This bloke came across as a guy who couldn’t really care what I was saying, and he said, no, but he does have a large in black…. I tried on the white with black bits just incase, but it was like a corset…well I imagine what a corset would feel like…I wouldn’t know….ANYWAY, it was pretty tight.

So then I tried on the black one and it was snug, but comfortable. I could move about enough and was amazing to look at. Then I asked how much, £125. Fecking let’s do it!!! My RST Pro Series “All Weather” jacket cost me £140, so you’re damn right I am buying this!

Chuffed to bits, I think I tried it on at least 4 times that same day, just to feel the quality. And now let me share this quality with you!

It’s a shorty style jacket and I will wear it with some jeans, i.e. Draggin or Hardas. Not the ones out of Next.

The jacket comes with a pretty decent back foam pad, but I will be upgrading to a solid state one shortly. Inside the jacket, with the warmth layer in, there are cut outs in the warmth layer for a back protector to feed through. On the jacket itself there are elastic bits to hold the back protector in! Brilliant attention to detail, but there is also a pocket for a stand alone protector if you dont have on of the strap to yourself ones.

The details on the Orona are what make it. The shoulder detail is nice, with the big round Furygan logo, and the overlapping shoulder joint. Lovely.

Batman. Some pads on the front of the jacket. On the white with black bits jacket, this middle section was black, but the rest of the jacket was white. I’ll post a pic up after these.

It’s all in the details, with the Furygan puma stitched on to a panel on the inside of the zip.

Again, details, with the Furygan zipper and the neck velcro with a small soft pad in the middle so it doesn’t rub your chin! Great

Like the shoulder joint, the elbow has an overlapping join as well, makes it look beefcake. When this jacket it on, it feels so snug everywhere, it’s great! Also the cuffs are tapered, so they go from thick to quite thin, this allows any sports gloves to go over the jacket with ease, instead of the usual RST stuff which is the same thickness all the way down, making the jacket bunch under the gloves leaving it uncomfortable. Great thinking Furygan!

Some sleeve adjustment to stop the jacket flapping around in the wind.

Waist adjustment, as standard on most jackets.

Inside there is a zip out waistcoat/layer, which has an aluminium layer in it!! I.e. mountain survival bag type. Looks smart, and it has the same pocket array as on the actual jacket. So I have double what you see here. Phone pocket, a zippy pocket and another 2 “pen” pockets. Nice.

The cool label, with skulls…interesting!

So there you go!

Unfortunately the weather has not been kind since the bike show, so I have not had a chance to try this out on the bike, but from wearing various bike jackets every day for a year, I think I can safely say this jacket is going to be the business!!

Anyway, it’s late, so I’m off!

Thanks again for looking folks! I appreciate it.

Gordon