I wear my leathers trousers minus tights ;-) And I take all the inners in my leather jacket out and wear a cotton top with little straps I would try to leave my suit at work so I could change when I got there.
I've got kevlar jeans and they're okay, but to be honest I think upwards of £100 for some denim and kevlar sewn together in a sweat shop is taking the piss big time.
picked them up Friday night from Infinity motorcycles Southampton and riding back to Christchurch was bliss after the leathers. They are fairly thick for "jeans" http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p48DFZiD1yg Covec™ +7 – CE tested to EN 13595-1 Level 2 for 7.97 seconds, making them the ONLY jeans to be approved to level 2 safety. This is a knitted product and compares to aramids (4.4 seconds) in that it is knitted.
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That is what I did when I commuted more often then I do now. I wore the blouse required under my jacket and made sure the skirt / trousers / shoes whatever were in the office. Fortunately we are blessed with excellent facilities for changing, storage, showering etc. Nowadays I'm dragging aroung laptop and a forest full of paper so it's not always practical and I don't want to carry all that on my back.
from their web site............. maybe be not now...... hey they both want to be number one I see he did a arse dragging test too the Bull-it jeans last 7 seconds as opposed to the Draggin jeans 4.4sec in the abrasion test I noticed they don't mention that Kevlar absorbs water which reduces its strength considerably. Told by Trevor the manager at Infinity Motorcycles that the fire brigade have to change all their kevlar trousers once a month because of that problem
I am lucky enough to have a locker at work so I have a number of suits and shoes in that. My ride is 50 miles each way so I wear leathers generaly the one piece cos its vented. As an aside I went to Duxford yesterday and there was a couple of Belgians in front of me and a German couple parked next to me and all of them just stood there and stripped to there underwear and put T shirt and shorts on. The German lady must have been used to hotter weather it was 25 degrees and she still appeared cold Me I had a pair of cycling shorts under my leathers
The tensile properties of Kevlar are virtually unaffected by moisture content in the context of everyday road riding. All aramid / natural fibres absorb moisture to some extent and they pick it up or give it off till they reach relative humidity (TECHNICAL for stuff gets damp and stuff dries out!) Like all materials when the stuff is heated any moisture within it will also heat up, in the case of the kevlar heat shielding in fire suits it bakes the fibre less stable, but in perspective if we're talking about kevlar decomposition (it doesn't melt) we are talking of sustained exposure to temperatures of 427 - 482+ degrees in air and 538+ in nitrogen cells. Even when exposed to 16hrs worth of 150 degree steam to see a 10 percent drop off. Go ask Trevor if he's referring to Kevlar 25 or 49 while we're at it. In terms of abrasion resistance the moisture absorbtion of kevlar isn't a factor, unless you spend your time sliding in gravel pits or asphalt that happen to be in blast furnaces with steam vents in them. The problem with facts and figures like that is that most people only get to hear snippets rather than the full story, so its easy to be incorrectly informed. In a word, even in the pissing wet they should be fine!
