decent jeans for motorcycling

Has anyone got any recommendations for some hard wearing jeans suitable
for motorcycle riding?

I'm used to buying fashion jeans from topman / burton but I can't see
these standing up to much!

Debenhams do some wrangler jeans which look a bit better.

Anyone got any suggestions?

 

Leather ones. With armour.[1]

If you mean denim or similar, Mr Varnsferry will be along shortly with
some figures that might make you think twice. Or maybe not, in which
case, Levi is as good as Asda as M&S as Wrangler etc.


[1] awaits safety nazi comments

 

No denim jeans are going to offer anything significant[1] in the way
of protection, so you might as well go with your normal choice.

Better than 'Fashion Jeans" I suppose.

Levis always did it for me, but they do wear out quite quickly in a
tarmac interface scenarion.


[1] I.e. no real protection at all.
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He's only riding a 125 that won't do more than 60, remember. Stop
getting all safety nazi - if he wants to wear jeans that's his choice.

Leather trousers were things only worn by racers or wannabe racers
when I wer' lad.

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Hi - I know its not very good protection compared with armoured leather
but just wondered which are the best ones I can get as I want to wear
jeans and only ride a slow 125cc!

 

Black ones - double black, not those half-hearted attempts at black which
are white on the inside. And preferably with a 501 patch on the back.

 

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How does the above ^^^ differ from this:

 

http://www.dragginjeans.co.uk/

Kevlar lined debim jeans. About 90 quid a pair.

Nowhere near as good as leather in the protection stakes but better
than levi/wrangler/burton et al


Dave

 

And gays. They wore leather trousers with white polo-neck jumpers tucked in.

 

One of them is me saying summat, t'other is someone else. World of
difference, you see?

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I bought a pair of Hood Jeans. They're like normal jeans with Kevlar[1]
weave inside the legs. There seems to be quite a lot of it and they
were a decent price, appear to be hard wearing and don't look any
different to 'normal' denim on the outside.

HTH.

[1] Or something quite like that

 

ben says...

Tesco Value Jeans, they perform better than some very expensive flashy
looking leathers in laboratory testing too.

 

Big Dave says...

All depends on the make of leathers, see my earlier post to this thread.

 

Book a bed in your local hospital for when you fall off.

 

O'Neill board shorts. They'll protect you so well that people will
assume you were wearing leather trousers when you came off. Shame about
the tshirt, mind...

 

Take a look at the thread: "FA: Giali reinforced denim jackets & jeans"

HTH

 

Hood Jeans
http://www.hoodjeans.co.uk/

Or Draggin Jeans (google for them)