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and this forum is populated by all year round bikers. What protective kit are you wearing to ride your bike in this heat?

I've given up for the moment - thank god for cars and aircon.

leathers.................as always

Summer leather jacket, sports gloves, sports boots, kevlar jeans. Still get warm but not as bad as wearing wet gear.

Well yesterday i saw two bikers hammering down the m1 wearing tshirts, shorts, one was wearing sandals and the other trainers. Neither had gloves and both were weaving in between lanes as if they were standing still.

It only takes one person to not check the mirrors and in that situation you are a dead man.

slickliner6 wrote:leathers.................as always

hardcore, beyond question!

Yesterday's trip to the Festival of 1000 bikes:

• Helmet
  Boots
  Lightweight Gloves
  Leather Jacket
  Kevlar Jeans

I would have worn my leather trousers but couldn't fit them plus my jacket in my small pillion-mount topbox - and shorts were mandatory for wandering around Mallory in yesterday's heat.

To and from church this morning - same kit as yesterday.

lazarus wrote:and this forum is populated by all year round bikers. What protective kit are you wearing to ride your bike in this heat?

I've given up for the moment - thank god for cars and aircon.

Not riding atm but if I was it'd be full leathers, I wouldn't wear kevlar jeans, I'm sure they can get welded to your legs in a big off

Aprilia Jacket and Jeans. Boots, Gloves, Helmet, Eardefs

Normally if i intended riding anything like spirited or with others, i'd wear leathers.

Risk assessment made in my head. I ride inside my limits, defensively for the most.

My choice and acceptance of consequences

Gio wrote:

lazarus wrote:and this forum is populated by all year round bikers. What protective kit are you wearing to ride your bike in this heat?

I've given up for the moment - thank god for cars and aircon.

Not riding atm but if I was it'd be full leathers, I wouldn't wear kevlar jeans, I'm sure they can get welded to your legs in a big off

You want to watch out for BSE if you're wearing the leather ones too much.


BTW I rather doubt that given its properties, Kevlar will weld itself to your legs

I was out on track yesterday at Mallory. Whilst waiting we lined up like sheep in pens leathers on
It was hot hot hot

D-Rider wrote:

Gio wrote:

lazarus wrote:and this forum is populated by all year round bikers. What protective kit are you wearing to ride your bike in this heat?

I've given up for the moment - thank god for cars and aircon.

Not riding atm but if I was it'd be full leathers, I wouldn't wear kevlar jeans, I'm sure they can get welded to your legs in a big off

You want to watch out for BSE if you're wearing the leather ones too much.


BTW I rather doubt that given its properties, Kevlar will weld itself to your legs

and what about this further in?
Kevlar® reacts well under a tensile force (stretching force) but badly under a compressive force.

To be honest do we worry about the fire element, when we might be t-boned/clipped/rearended, I don't its the effect you might get from slidding down the road.

I was on a return journey on the airfeild yesterday, just hutting the triples and the sun scorch on the back of my kevlar (black) jeans was unbelievably hot, no cooling effect at all

Gio wrote:

D-Rider wrote:

Gio wrote:

lazarus wrote:and this forum is populated by all year round bikers. What protective kit are you wearing to ride your bike in this heat?

I've given up for the moment - thank god for cars and aircon.

Not riding atm but if I was it'd be full leathers, I wouldn't wear kevlar jeans, I'm sure they can get welded to your legs in a big off

You want to watch out for BSE if you're wearing the leather ones too much.


BTW I rather doubt that given its properties, Kevlar will weld itself to your legs

and what about this further in?
Kevlar® reacts well under a tensile force (stretching force) but badly under a compressive force.

To be honest do we worry about the fire element, when we might be t-boned/clipped/rearended, I don't its the effect you might get from slidding down the road.

Pic - Above
90mph slide until
stationery (no impact),
couple of rolls near the
end. The outer fabric
makes it look bad but the
worst you can say about
the para-aramid fibres is
it looks slightly fluffy and
a bit grubby - it would
be good to do exactly
the same again. Highly
recommended.

http://www.hoodjeans.co.uk/acatalog/hoo ... dback.html

Gio wrote:

D-Rider wrote:

Gio wrote:

lazarus wrote:and this forum is populated by all year round bikers. What protective kit are you wearing to ride your bike in this heat?

I've given up for the moment - thank god for cars and aircon.

Not riding atm but if I was it'd be full leathers, I wouldn't wear kevlar jeans, I'm sure they can get welded to your legs in a big off

You want to watch out for BSE if you're wearing the leather ones too much.


BTW I rather doubt that given its properties, Kevlar will weld itself to your legs

and what about this further in?
Kevlar® reacts well under a tensile force (stretching force) but badly under a compressive force.

To be honest do we worry about the fire element, when we might be t-boned/clipped/rearended, I don't its the effect you might get from slidding down the road.

errr - I was responding to the idea that you might get welded to it - ie it melting!

The main reason for using it is because of its anti-abrasion properties.

As for the properties in coompression. I think the human body inside is going to have some rather significant problems before the kevlar starts to fail.

Leathers, even for my daily commute. Not pleasant when the traffic comes to a stand-still...

so just have to keep going