looking for pants

[Phat Ham]

I'm still riding in jeans and want to buy a proper pair of riding pants. I'll mainly be using these for commuting and the weekend ride out to nowhere and back. Here are the criteria I'm looking to fill:

1. can be worn year 'round
2. waterproof capability
3. won't make me look like the michelin man

If it helps, I am 5'11" and 130 lbs. So yeah, really skinny.

Any suggestions?

[Phat Ham]

Anybody have experience with fieldsheer booster pants? Looks like they might be what I'm looking for. I wonder how well the vents actually work for keeping cool in the heat.

[aaldape]

The Shift Havoc pants I have are awesome, except they can get hot in the summer. If they had zippers they would be perfect!

[littlefred811]

Where are you riding? In Colorado, I use two sets. Joe Rocket summer weight (yes, we see 100+, and jeans/trousers plus full mesh works well while under way, stopped = still sweat like a rented mule), and a mid weight non mesh. Sorry to give you the bad news, but one pair doesn't work year round for me. Best of luck!

Fred
99 SV650 track
99ZRX1000 Street
KTM 520EXC Dirt
03 "CRF" 100 play

[Currently]

If money is an issue, the best tested solution I did was with the First Gear HT Air pants.

Tested means temperature from the teens to over a hundred degrees and also crash tested.

The mesh portion for hot weather and the weather proof liner for rain and cold weather.

I crashed in them, I had added the CE approved auxiliary armor and I can say they protected my hips and knees perfectly.

I was afraid the armor would of shifted but it did its job perfectly.

[Phat Ham]

I'm in DC. It gets cold enough to snow a couple times in the winter and in the summer will get up to the 90s and maybe break 100 on occasion.

What I'm really looking for is a pant that will be cool enough to ride in the warmer months but still be waterproof for those times I get caught in the rain. I realize this is next to impossible considering a waterproof material will also be windproof, but something that has closable vents like the booster pant in theory would work.

[Currently]

It is not impossible read my post above yours ...

[Phat Ham]

Originally Posted by Currently

It is not impossible read my post above yours ...

yes.



The only issue I have with something like the HT air is it is not waterproof without the liner in. So if I'm riding during the summer and it starts raining I will have to take the pants off, put the liner in, then put the pants back on. With something like the booster pant I could just zip up the vents and go. Of course I have no idea how effective the vents in the booster pant actually are. Or how waterproof they actually are.

[Currently]

I always carry a First Gear Rainman outfit with me along with waterproof gloves anytime it looks like rain.

[Galvatron]

Originally Posted by aaldape

The Shift Havoc pants I have are awesome, except they can get hot in the summer. If they had zippers they would be perfect!

I have these too, great pants.