Riding pants advice?

[woodboats]

My wife and I will be doing an overseas ride in April and need a bit of advice on what sort of riding pants may work. We already have leathers etc but the climate will be a bit hot to wear gear over our normal clothes. We have always used leathers and are not really up to date on new gear.
What we need are stand alone type pants that can be worn on their own, look normal to wear around and are comfy to walk in.
Any ideas would be appreciated, expecially where to purchase the gear.As we are in Northland I guess we would need to look at Auckland and north.
Many thanks.

[PirateJafa]

Kevlar reinforced jeans? Stay away from any of the Quasimoto range, I've heard both good things and bad about Draggin jeans, but I've heard nothing but praise about the jeans from Lifestyle Imports (http://www.lifestyle-imports.co.nz/shop/index.php?cPath=40_62) so far.

[prettybillie]

I've heard nothing but praise about the jeans from Lifestyle Imports (http://www.lifestyle-imports.co.nz/shop/index.php?cPath=40_62) so far.

I've heard the same!

[Coyote]

My Draggin Chinos had a good run. Survived several falls until they became too worn out. Very comfy and surprisingly warm.

However a mate of mine was wearing his Draggin Jeans when he came off his bike. A trouser leg ended up rotating around his leg so the kevlar patch was behind his knee, leaving his leg protected by just denim. That tore up, and so did his leg. He was in hospital getting skin grafts for a while.

My advice with any kevlar reinforced riding pants is to get them reasonably tight fitting so hopefully they won't move around in an accident.

Otherwise the best option is to get Cordura pants. All the material can save you from tearing up your skin so if they spin around like in my story above, you'll be better off. They're priced the same as riding jeans, and they don't look too out of place when walking in town. And the good brands are very waterproof, unlike the jeans. They're what I would recommend you try out.

[woodboats]

Thanks very much folks!
I will have a look at all those options.

[NZsarge]

My Draggin Chinos had a good run. Survived several falls until they became too worn out. Very comfy and surprisingly warm.

However a mate of mine was wearing his Draggin Jeans when he came off his bike. A trouser leg ended up rotating around his leg so the kevlar patch was behind his knee, leaving his leg protected by just denim. That tore up, and so did his leg. He was in hospital getting skin grafts for a while.

My advice with any kevlar reinforced riding pants is to get them reasonably tight fitting so hopefully they won't move around in an accident.


Either that or you get Draggin or Hornee kevlar jeans roomy enough to wear some kind of amour underneath them perhaps.

[vifferman]

I notice Gubb hasn't posted in here... :whistle:

[Gubb]

Pants are overrated.

[ratusratus]

Yall cant beat it:2thumbsup

[MaxCannon]

Depending on where you are going you might need mesh style pants.

I have a pair of Rev'it cordura pants that are very breathable but in hot sticky weather I don't want to walk too far in them.
While moving on the bike they are fine but walking on a hot day will have your legs sweating like mad.

Cordura mesh pants have mesh fabric panels that allow a lot more air to get in.

[BiK3RChiK]

I find the Cordura very hot even without the liners. They tend to get all wet, then start smelling without regular washing. Then, because of the nature of Cordura, if you over-wash it, it falls apart:no: I'd go the jeans way...

[turtleman]

Kevlar reinforced jeans? .....I've heard nothing but praise about the jeans from Lifestyle Imports (http://www.lifestyle-imports.co.nz/shop/index.php?cPath=40_62) so far.


I've heard the same!

Haven't had Jeans from lifestyle imports, but they have a lot of other gear too. Check out trademe user madmax5 - This is Rick (I think his name is) from lifestyle imports, and some of his auctions are of gear that is not listed on the Lifestyle imports website.

I have a pair of tecknic kevlar jeans and find them pretty comfortable and reasonably stylish. About $100 (or more) cheaper than Draggins....

[Quasievil]

Kevlar reinforced jeans? Stay away from any of the Quasimoto range, I've heard both good things and bad about Draggin jeans, but I've heard nothing but praise about the jeans from Lifestyle Imports (http://www.lifestyle-imports.co.nz/shop/index.php?cPath=40_62) so far.

YOUR FUCKING KIDDING ,Stay away from the quasimoto range because you ripped your Denium (the kevlar still intact) refused to send them back for inspection and resolution, but at every opportunity bag the brand which has one of the best reputations in the country

mate youre a right royal cock!

Anyway back on subject, My Advice is to get Perforated leather, Denium Jeans is NOT going to provide a safe crash option. They are jeans only.

[crusa]

My wife and I will be doing an overseas ride in April and need a bit of advice on what sort of riding pants may work. We already have leathers etc but the climate will be a bit hot to wear gear over our normal clothes. We have always used leathers and are not really up to date on new gear.
What we need are stand alone type pants that can be worn on their own, look normal to wear around and are comfy to walk in.
Any ideas would be appreciated, expecially where to purchase the gear.As we are in Northland I guess we would need to look at Auckland and north.
Many thanks.

Spidi have leather and cordura pants with zipped vents down the side wife has both but wears the leather set keep,s her cool in summer liner for winter

[PirateJafa]

YOUR FUCKING KIDDING ... ations in the country

Cry cry. I offered to send them back, you never got back to me with important things like addresses etc.

On the bright side, they are great at cleaning off old chain lube. Somewhat expensive for just that job though, so of course I gave the OP some sound advice to buy quality instead.

Woodboats, the chap who runs Lifestyle Imports in at the Auckland end of SH22 - so it's about 20mins south of Auckland, and it's also a great excuse to go a bit further and do the rest of the highway. ;)

[Quasievil]

Cry cry. I offered to send them back, you never got back to me with important things like addresses etc.

On the bright side, they are great at cleaning off old chain lube. Somewhat expensive for just that job though, so of course I gave the OP some sound advice to buy quality instead.

Woodboats, the chap who runs Lifestyle Imports in at the Auckland end of SH22 - so it's about 20mins south of Auckland, and it's also a great excuse to go a bit further and do the rest of the highway. ;)

Sorry but we did give you the address, your immaturity is remarkable

[cs363]

Anyway back on subject, My Advice is to get Perforated leather, Denium Jeans is NOT going to provide a safe crash option. They are jeans only.


Exactly what I would suggest, though it would probably help if the OP let us know where in the world they are heading as no doubt someone on KB will have 'been there, done that'

[woodboats]

We will be biking through North Vietnam, not with a group but just my wife and I. Speeds wont be very high but road conditions will vary from good to quite rough and muddy in parts. The chances for low speed drops are probaby reasonably high at times. Weather from hot to cool in the higher altitudes.
Cheers

[cs363]

In that case for the ultimate in protection ( I know it's generally low speeds over there, but you also have to consider the actions of some of the local drivers...) I'd still recommend some perforated leather pants or leather/textile mix and get some coolmax type underwear (several brands available) which will stop the leather pants sticking to you and wick away perspiration.
If you do get textile pants get good quality ones as some of the cheap Chinese/Paki stuff is not very good at resisting abrasion as it's not the same material as Cordura or other high abrasion nylon materials.
I agree with Quasi that kevlar jeans not only won't offer the protection you are looking for and also won't be that cool (temperature wise)