Segura is a stylish French brand with a particular reputation for producing lovely-looking and super-comfortable leather jackets. We’ve recently been given details about a new-for-2021 leather jacket that is due for release in April. Now Segura claims that it’s a new jacket, but in truth that would be stretching things a little, because it’s really just a revamp of a jacket they had in their range a couple of years ago. That jacket was called the Stripe, and visually it was almost identical to this one. (Actually, this one has more pockets). The jacket is made from buffalo hide. Most of the detailing is much as one might expect. You get a removable, thermal liner, CE armour in the elbows and shoulders, a pocket for an optional back protector, side adjusters, zips at the ends of the cuffs, and so on. There are perhaps two points of particular note. The first is that this jacket is rated as an AAA jacket under EN 17092. We were surprised but impressed by this. Triple A rated garments normally imply a trade off in terms of comfort, but that’s not the case here. This is as comfortable and as easy to wear as just about any bike jacket out there. Remove the thermal and the armour, and you would think you were wearing a street jacket. The other feature of note that is somewhat less impressive, in our view, is the jacket’s name. Now in an effort, perhaps, to create clear blue water between this jacket and its predecessor, Segura has called this the ‘Segura Funky jacket’; and frankly we cannot live with that. You don’t become a funky product by calling yourself a funky product. It would be like Mercedes launching a new car called the Mercedes Luxury or Porsche bring out a new model and calling it the Porsche Sexy! And so we have decided to re-name this new jacket the ‘Segura Stripe 2’. To us this seems eminently reasonable and sensible; it’s what everybody else does when they upgrade a jacket, a pant or a helmet. But the bottom line is that, whatever you want to call this jacket, it’s a really nice bit of kit: stylish, easy to live with, and about as protective as a jacket like this gets.