M Rab Kinetic Jacket Review

by Chris Wallace

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Article Summary:

The Rab Kinetic is a hard shell jacket that offers full features at a minimal weight. Much like it's slightly lighter, but less featured sibling, the Pulse, the Kinetic is made of Pertex Shield Plus. Shield Plus is a 2.5 layer polyurethane coated fabric much like those offered on most other hard shells in this class. Compared to the previous Pertex Shield, the new Plus fabric has a much better feel, almost tissue paper-like. I much prefer the feel of the new Plus on my bare skin over the more trash bag-like feel of the previous Shield.

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