Racer gloves - French or Austrian?

[SVS]

Hiya,

Does anyone know if there are two motorcycle clothing companies called Racer? Any good?

Looking at some Racer gloves, which I thought were Austrian www.racer.at and always seem to get great write-ups.

... then I saw that www.racergloves.com is French It looks like a completely different company, but offers some of the same gloves (e.g. Dynamic 2) and some different gloves (e.g. using d30 armour).

[MrChips]

The Austrian ones can be found in many uk shops I think. I bought some 'high racer' ones from infinity and they've been superb.
Good quality leather and very supple. The palms are very thin but that's what I wanted from a summer glove.

[robstvr]

Racer high top - excellent.

[Rubin215]

I'll pretty much guarantee they are made in Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, China, The Phillipenes or any one of a dozen other countries with poor human rights records and sweatshop labour as opposed to either France or Austria though...

[RizzoTheRat]

I bought a pair of Eska winter gloves some years back, they now seem to be called Racer Pluvio in the shops, they're fantastic, only truly waterproof gloves I've ever owned.

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Tuesday 29th March 19:12

[SVS]

Thanks Rob'n'Rizzo. I see this month's Superbike gives (Austrian) Racer a mega-positive write up after 'testing' the same pair via a number of crashes on track

As good as Held, I wonder?

Yeah, I guess all kit is made in China nowadays, unless you can afford something like BKS (Made to Measure) ...