My New Riding Pants
For quite some time now I have been looking covetously at my friends who have weatherproof, armored riding pants. These are the people who have no reason to stop when the weather turns wet. While the rest of us are making quick stops to suit up, they sit and wait for us.
My REV’IT Vapor 2 pants
There are several attractions. First there is the armor. If I go down I like the idea of having armor in the knees and hips. I’ll still need to put on a rain jacket but putting on the rain pants is always the biggest pain.
But another really big thing is the benefit for packing. These are pants you can wear without having to wear other pants beneath. When you’re traveling, you get up, put on the Vapor 2s with just your underwear beneath, and when you get to the day’s destination you change out of them into shorts, light-weight pants, jeans–whatever you want. The point being that you can pack pants that are more compact than jeans and/or you can just pack fewer pants.
What I’m still looking to explore is their winter usefulness. In the summer I can ride with just underwear beneath, or I can wear jeans beneath. All of this with the flannel liner removed. In winter I can ride with jeans beneath and no liner or add in the liner for additional warmth.
So far I’ve only worn them once on a cold day and that was without the liner. I found that in front, primarily due to the armor, they were plenty warm. However, the back sides of my legs felt the relative coolness. I have yet to ride with the liner in.
All that said, wearing them takes some getting used to. They feel a little big and clunky on me and them impede the act of swinging my leg over the saddle. I just have to do it in a more planned, deliberate manner.
Will I really take to them, and make them an everyday part of my riding gear? I’ll let you know.
Biker Quote for Today
Son, someday you will make a girl very happy, for a short period of time. Then she’ll leave you and be with new men who are ten times better than you could ever hope to be. These men are call motocross racers.
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