Riding pants advice?

[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)