Chaps or Pants????

[Deanna777]

I use to wear chaps when I was riding 2-wheeled motorcycles,( Yamaha, Kawasaki's Hondas, Suzuki's HD) now I wear jeans. Even when I ride to work ( in early Morning @ 4:30). But I do have a pair of BRP riding Summer pants in my spyder just in case. Deanna777

[oldguyinTX]

In cold weather I wear lined leather pants. The missus wants leather pants also. Unfortunately, what is mostly available for women is chaps. She does not like them, and I won't quote the exact words, but she said, in effect, FUUGGETABOUTIT!! Up to you as to wear chaps or not.

[Silvervette05]

Blue jeans or first gear suit

[Motorcycledave]

If it is cold or cool I use the chaps if it's a warm or hot day I use
First Gear Mesh pants with the armor in them very good in the summer
Dave

[DrewNJ]

Chaps? Absolutely not....

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[jaherbst]

Riding Pants with zip in zip out liners are by far the best. I prefer Olympia brand or First Gear With mesh pants and liner for winter and no liner for summer.

[DrewNJ]

I as a Briton, read this with a smirk! Here pants are what many of you might call boxers, but generally the tighter cotton, budgie smuggler variety and chaps are only worn by Village People wannabes! The only place you might find chaps outside of a gentleman's bedroom or a certain type of gentleman's club is at a HOG meeting where they will be worn by a hard riding accountant from suburbia called Gerald whilst he manfully downs in one his Earl Grey tea...with lemon of course!

Around here we call those "hard riding accountants from suburbia" suburban weekend pirates. They get all dressed up in their weekend riding outfits to go out riding and looking all tough...

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[jon8622]

Well, anybody here ever been down while wearing chaps? I have and they protected me, no road rash, just two broke vertabre, and a broken fibia/ankle. I do not consider"Fashion"when I think about safety, and my full face helmet saved my brain and my face. Go figure.

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[ARtraveler]

Around here we call those "hard riding accountants from suburbia" suburban weekend pirates. They get all dressed up in their weekend riding outfits to go out riding and looking all tough...

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Anti chaps and anti accountant? I like chaps and I am an accountant and a accounting professor. I would consider myself a bit more than a weekend pirate and most of the time do about 100 miles of riding a day. I dress for the ryde and for safety.

[DrewNJ]

Anti chaps and anti accountant? I like chaps and I am an accountant and a accounting professor. I would consider myself a bit more than a weekend pirate and most of the time do about 100 miles of riding a day. I dress for the ryde and for safety.

There are always exceptions my friend....haha.. but you know the exact type of rider I'm talking about.
We have a LOT of weekend pirates around here that get all geared up, attitudes and all, and think they are hardcore.

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[DrewNJ]

Oh! Accountants are good peeps in my book. My accountant is flat out a wizard!!

It's the chaps and weekend pirates that roll an eye brow......

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[lwrydr]

I have both chaps and leather pants that are lined. When it is cold or rainy out I wear the leather pants. I don't wear the chaps very often. The rest of the time I wear jeans.

[Hecam17]

I wear Sliders jeans from Competition Accessories, kevlar reinforced, comfortable all day at work too. Highly reviewed by MCN and WebBike World works for me.

[StanProff]

Very sadly, chaps in the UK seem to have earned some sort of a very undeserved stigma. I have ridden over here in chaps that I bought at Daytona Bike
Week much to the amusement of other bikers. The hilarity soon ends when after a cloudburst they all get wet from road spray and yet I don't.
My chaps were made by Walter Dyer Leather of Framingham MA. I also have their Levi style vest with 'Buffalo' Nickels for buttons. It's the best and softest
oil tanned leather I have ever seen and even after 20-odd years wonderfully supple.
I was going to contact the firm to see if I can get my chaps altered to accommodate my seemingly ever expanding waistline (!) but I see from their website
that they no longer make chaps.
So the answer to the OPs question is both. My jeans are now Kevlar reinforced but they certainly ain't waterproof!!

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HAPPY!! CHAP along if you H feel A that P happiness P is Y the truth!HAPPY!!

[OJ UK]

Yes! I'm a Happy Chappy!!!

[Bob Denman]

I'm not quite sure if I want to see a picture of that; or not!

[bluestratos]

I try to distance myself as much as possible from the classic "cycle" look so no chaps. I wear pants or if its cool I where waterproof riding pants with the knee and hip pads. I wear what is comfortable much as if I were in a convertable. Really hot-shorts, 50-75 I wear jeans, below 50 I put on the riding pants.

I will live till I die and not worry a minute about it in between.

[gnirtsnod]

Ya I hear ya... My want is that I'm in Southern Maine and allot of my early morning riding is cold, so I double up pants and its a pain where I've never owned Chaps and thought it would be the way to go... I also take off on the weekends for hundreds of miles so its also for safety in case a Bear decides he wants to check out my ride and crosses my path

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[CaptainSFC]

If you have the Baker Air wings then Jeans are fine

[Bob Denman]

...So I guess that it'll have to be me!
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[Lone Spyders]

Do any or you wear them? Do you love em?

Rich

They are for cold weather riding and they make a difference.

[M109Dreamer]

If its time for the cold gear to come out I wear ski pants. They are warm and fairly cheap.

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[Tango]

Wife and I bit the bullet and ordered 2 Aerostitch R3 suits. We were measured by a factory tech at the Aerostich Tour of the Country when they stopped in Northern N.J.. The suits are custom made using "Military Grade" Goretex. Three layers of Goretex Fabric and Goretex seam sealed tape and Goretex zippers. Knee, shoulder, back pads. Expensive? VERY! Butt, they don't come any better! We received a generous discount as well as free shipping. Tom

[ARtraveler]

Wife and I bit the bullet and ordered 2 Aerostitch R3 suits. We were measured by a factory tech at the Aerostich Tour of the Country when they stopped in Northern N.J.. The suits are custom made using "Military Grade" Goretex. Three layers of Goretex Fabric and Goretex seam sealed tape and Goretex zippers. Knee, shoulder, back pads. Expensive? VERY! Butt, they don't come any better! We received a generous discount as well as free shipping. Tom

Aerosticth is the best of the best. The custom fiting and built to last manufacturing can't be beat. The cost is what kept me away from them. I have never heard anything bad about the product. I have been to the factory and met Andy Goldfine the owner. Very nice person.

[Dan_Ashley]

When it's over 70 degrees, I wear jeans
when it's over 60 degrees, I wear 1/2 chaps
when it is less than 60, I wear chaps.

i don't care if it is traditional, hard core, or prissy. I just dress the way I want--if someone wants to poke fun that's ok--I do the same in return--