Jeans or proper bike trou?

[Padmei]

About to spend some hard earned money on some trou & wondering your thoughts on Draggin jeans vs dri rider type trou for adv riding? Or both - what's usually the appropriate attire for a sortee?

[Jantar]

For adventure riding you must expect to come off at some stage, so leathers are the only way to go.

Either Draggins or cordura will protect you - once.

[mowgli]

What Jantar said.

I chose cordura then wished I'd bought Draggins. The cordura is great in the rain but this summer jeans would have been heaps more comfortable. With winter coming I won't be shelling out for jeans until spring.

[yungatart]

About to spend some hard earned money on some trou & wondering your thoughts on Draggin jeans vs dri rider type trou for adv riding? Or both - what's usually the appropriate attire for a sortee?

Its your body and your skin. What you cover it with is entirely up to you based only on how much you value yourself.....

[Motu]

You are not going to be sliding down the road at 140kph,but you might be falling onto rocks at low speeds,you also might spend most of a hot summer afternoon trying to push your bike and helping others up a muddy hill.You need impact protection rather than abrasion protection,and you also need something that breaths.

[NordieBoy]

Draggins are great in the summer and in the winter I wear a baggy pair of jeans over top of them for day to day use.

Can't stand leather pants.
Just sold my pants as they wouldn't let me move around on the seat as much as I'd like.

Adventuring, I go for cordura. Breathable, baggy enough to wear armour underneath if wanted, pockets galore, dries quickly when wet.

I think the faster you go the more toward the leather side you should look.

But then I've got a bin liner with holes in it for my head and arms as a wet weather top so be careful with my advice.

[marks]

But then I've got a bin liner with holes in it for my head

we have to see pictures of this ... please

presumably if you don't get the holes lined up you crash a lot?

[toebug]

But then I've got a bin liner with holes in it for my head and arms as a wet weather top so be careful with my advice.

Do they come with holes aready in them? What about different colours? I'm looking for some new wet weather kit!

[JATZ]

we have to see pictures of this ... please

presumably if you don't get the holes lined up you crash a lot?

Personly I wear leather 'cause thats all I have.Takes a while to dry though but leaves lovely marks where the dye gets onto my skin when wet, looks like horrendous bruising.

I've seen Nordies "wet weather gear" even has a draw cord 'round the waist, quite a fashion statement

[Quasievil]

I wear perforated leather pants, Racer 9 ones from quasimoto.co.nz and a Cordura vented jacket.
Jeans are not the ideal really, and personally I dont like cordura as they are sweaty as fuck

[CBobR]

I have Draggins and Dririder Rallycross cordura pants (lots of vents, no sweat, unlike my previous roady cordura pants, might not crash as well though).

My adventuring often involves falling over offroad and dragging bikes backwards out of mud and ditches, for this I like my Dririder stuff, it's much cooler than my jeans (which makes a big difference to how knackered I am at the end of a ride), and you get little a bit of padding for the impacts with rocks (I'd still like to add some extra knee protection though)

I like the draggins for commuting around town.

I have (non vented) leathers for my sportsbikes, but I'd probably get heatstroke low-speed bushwacking in them on a sunny day.

[bart]

Being a short tubby bastard, I had a real battle getting good pants. The knee part ended up half way down my shin with most.

Went for some fancy Fox ones in the end. They have hip protection, but no knee. I just wear knee pads underneath. Work great, breath well. Nice and stretchy through the crutch for getting my leg over a bike thats way to tall for me. Highly recommended, but not very waterproof.

[Grub]

Beware of draggins. Yes they have the sliding protection but they have no impact protection - they don't have any armour in them. Everyone forgets this little fact - until they fall down.

Armour is a multi-million industry and it's found in all cordura and leather riding gear ... there's a reason for that.

[Padmei]

Thanks for the info guys. My initial thoughts were for draggins but I think the impact protection armour is probably more important than keeping skin on. I will try to find some vented dririder trou I think.

Nordieboy your wet weather gear takes me back to a rock festival in Denmark in the early 90s where I had to resort to wearing a bag to keep my fringed leather jacket dry. - didn't think about making holes for my arms though

Needless to say eating was tricky

[Wingnut]

I dont feel all that safe in my draggins! Havent used them since getting a pair of leathers actually..