A salutary warning for the hot weather...

[Lawrence]

When Ride magazine did a product test on bike jeans Draggin came out top with a full 5 seconds of abrasion resistance.

Nicked from another forum:

From RiDE mag, November 2011. Purely abrasion resistance tests performed by SATRA, with no armour inserts fitted. They don't specify a simulated road speed, just the relative times to wear through the trousers. Average times are shown, the article has details for knee / thigh / arse times:

Hein Gericke Reno leather jeans: 4.74 seconds
Draggin' Biker kevlar jeans: 3.07 seconds
Hornee kevlar jeans: 1.39 seconds
Rev'it Sand textile trousers: 0.71 seconds
Levi stonewash 501s: 0.56 seconds
Tesco Cherokee jeans: 0.16 seconds

So even a budget pair of fairly fashiony leather trousers (£100) offers better protection than premium kevlar jeans (£150), or the fancy Rev'it pants (£190). Those Rev'it BMW-bait "Adventure" trousers are shockingly poor for the price, although the adverts for them don't make much mention of what they're made of - I'd have preferred to see some more testing of budget cordura trousers.

And no surprises, denim-only jeans are the chocolate teapot of protection. Yes, a £40 pair of Levis does offer better protection than Tesco budget tat, but either way you'll be surfing on your skin within a few yards when you come off. Enjoy having the gravel scraped out of your arse with a wire brush and Dettol at A&E. [img alt=Thumbs Up]http://cdn.bikechatforums.com/images/smiles/thumb_up.gif[/img][img alt=Hurt]http://cdn.bikechatforums.com/images/smiles/dead.gif[/img][img alt=Thumbs Up]http://cdn.bikechatforums.com/images/smiles/thumb_up.gif[/img]

Surprised at how bad the textiles came out  :eek