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Chaps or Pants????
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ARtraveler
R.I.P. Dwayne
I am kind of a ATGATT person. Therefore, when I wear jeans I wear the Kevlar variety. If it is not to cool outside the extra liner of Kevlar does a nice job of keeping out the cool breezes.
Chaps over the jeans are my next line of defense. I look at them as more insulation than protection.
When all else fails, I have firstgear textile riding pants and revit leather riding jeans.
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!!
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!!
oldguyinTX
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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
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Blue jeans or first gear suit :thumbup:
Motorcycledave
Active member
I have both
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
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
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
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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
R.I.P. Dwayne
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. :dontknow:
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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StanProff
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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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