Leathers on the road
Poll: Leathers on the road
Total Members Polled: 172
Discussion
twizellb said:
y2blade said:
Usually Leather jacket and a pair of denim jeans. With bike boots, gloves and helmet.
This but usually with trainers,Not saying that is a preachy way, it just pissed me off that my ONLY break in 30+ years happened in such a stupid accident.
Go Big or Go Home
Depends on mood. T-shirt and flip-flops through to £1k of Dainese power ranger, body armour etc.
Always wearing the full monty when I fall off so that either means I'm just lucky (if you were bottle fed as a child) or means something else slightly more in depth (if you lunched on the real thing).
Always wearing the full monty when I fall off so that either means I'm just lucky (if you were bottle fed as a child) or means something else slightly more in depth (if you lunched on the real thing).
I always thought the safety advantage of leathers was just protection from abrasion when sliding along the tarmac rather than from impact. So for a road rider like me whose accidents are likely to be low speed they weren't really relevant. Do they really protect from impact better than textiles?
Dr Jekyll said:
I always thought the safety advantage of leathers was just protection from abrasion when sliding along the tarmac rather than from impact. So for a road rider like me whose accidents are likely to be low speed they weren't really relevant. Do they really protect from impact better than textiles?
Generally a survivble road accident is a slow speed body armour thing rather than a high speed abrasion thing. Howevers leathers are better - they hold the armour in the right place, They don't grip so hard at first impact which induces torn stuff. They keep you in roughly the same shape and all together in one bit.
If you were pay me lots of money and jump out of a car as often mentioned on racing commentary I'd definately pick tight fitting race leathers with body armour rather than an anorak with some hard foam in it.
Road crashes don't generally happen on a straight piece of road and all your kinetic energy gets used up fast so anything better is than nothing in a crash.
Or don't crash or take excessive risk of course which is what I was trying to say before.
Dr Jekyll said:
I always thought the safety advantage of leathers was just protection from abrasion when sliding along the tarmac rather than from impact. So for a road rider like me whose accidents are likely to be low speed they weren't really relevant. Do they really protect from impact better than textiles?
I'd suggest that textiles with body armour fitted will protect as well as leathers for impact. But as you say leathers will protect better for abrasion. You don't have to be going very fast to need good abrasion qualities. Especially if you end up under the bike sliding. Herman Toothrot said:
Leather jacket, kevlar jeans - so I suppose I wear leather every time I ride..
+1but zip in leather trousers if i'm hooning it.
Leather trousers do make the kevlar jeans feel like knit-wear though - anyone had an off with kevlar jeans and can report how they fared?
Textile jacket (HG Master one with woven kevlar bits in it) and textile trousers most of the time.
If it's summer then I'll wear a leather jacket and kevlar jeans, or my textile jacket and kevlar jeans. I have some Triumph leather trousers with kneesliders, but I tend to ride like a tt and spill tea over strangers with them on.
If it's summer then I'll wear a leather jacket and kevlar jeans, or my textile jacket and kevlar jeans. I have some Triumph leather trousers with kneesliders, but I tend to ride like a tt and spill tea over strangers with them on.
That ride mag report is a little bit miss leading though as it doesn't give the spec of the "textiles". I can't find the report but I've seen a comparison of cordura where the thinnest spec wasn't a lot better than denim but the heaviest gave a better abrasion resistance than leather.
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