How to choose motorcycle riding clothes?

Cycling clothes are like the armor of motorcycle riders, and they are also the clothing products that we are most willing to consume. It can not only keep us in line with the motorcycle style, but also ensure our driving safety.

As you can see, there are many kinds of cycling clothes on the market, and domestic and imported brands emerge one after another, with high and low prices.

So, how can we choose a really useful cycling suit? Bian Xiao will share his experience with you.

First of all, we don't look at brands, styles or prices. After all, brand and price are inextricably linked, depending on whether an individual is willing to pay for that Logo. Style is related to personal aesthetics and the collocation of models. Let's put these points aside.

Maybe you will ask, brand, style and price don't care, so what do we care? Function, the first consideration when buying cycling clothes is whether its functionality can meet our real needs.

Whether riding, brushing the street, running the mountain or getting off the track, different ways of playing and different daily needs are all related to the functional choice of cycling clothes.

Playing the track is nothing more than a one-piece leather coat, but this is a niche game after all, so let's put it aside. This paper mainly introduces the choice of motorcycle, street painting and mountain running riding clothes.

As we all know, you can't take too much luggage when you travel by motorcycle for a long time. A fully functional cycling suit can save us a lot of trouble. This kind of cycling suit is also commonly known as rally suit.

What is the most basic function of pulling clothes? Keep warm, windproof, waterproof and fall-proof. After all, we may not have time to change our equipment immediately when we encounter sudden weather on the way to the motorcycle brigade, or we may not have a place to move so much equipment.

In fact, the warm-keeping treatment of tension suit is very simple, just add a set of warm-keeping liner. If you want to be windproof, add a layer of windproof liner. However, rain and fall prevention is not that simple.

Let's talk about rain protection first. When we ride a bike in rainy days, the rain doesn't simply fall on us, but hits us. Therefore, many tensile suits with poor waterproof effect have water seepage on the front and little water seepage on the back.

Raincoats are bigger, lighter and easier to ride. Although riding in a raincoat is very effective, it is always affected by wind resistance, which is not conducive to control. It's still very troublesome to put on and take off temporarily.

The most common waterproof measure of tension suit is to add waterproof liner, but the effect is not ideal. Light rain can barely bear it, but heavy rain is helpless. As the name implies, the waterproof liner is built-in, so the rain must first invade the tension suit and then be blocked by the waterproof layer. After a rain, the clothes outside were soaked and became extremely heavy. If the waterproof liner material is not enough, rainwater can enter through the liner. This is useless.

Therefore, when shopping, we should first pay attention to the fabric of the tension suit itself. The greater the density, the better the windproof and rainproof effect will naturally be. The common fabric materials are mostly Oxford cloth and nylon, but we are not professionals after all, and it is difficult for the naked eye to distinguish these two materials.

Moreover, a good drawing suit not only uses these two single materials, but also adds other materials for combination. If it is subdivided, the composite fabric is also related to the types, specifications and ratios of various materials.

What do we do? The most direct and effective way is to touch. Just as we buy clothes every day, we will feel the feel of the fabric to judge the quality of the material. Simply put, a better tension suit has high fabric density, smooth and not rough feel, and strong sense of weight. A suit with poor tension may also feel smooth, but the fabric is thin and the texture is low. After all, you should consider the degree of wear resistance when you fall from the car. The thicker the natural wear resistance coefficient is, the higher it is.

For waterproof effect, the high density of fabric is the primary factor. At present, there are also many pull-suits that have been treated with waterproof film and glue pressing at the seams, and bionic composite materials have been added to the fabrics, so that the surface of the pull-suits presents a "lotus effect", and the rain instantly condenses into water droplets, and then falls down instead of gathering on the surface.

In addition to reading the product introduction or asking the shopping guide about the waterproof effect, you can also take a small watering can or a small bottle of mineral water to test it. As long as the surface of the zipper suit can quickly condense water into beads without leaving water marks, it is a zipper suit with waterproof surface. This is what we need.

Of course, a penny is worth a penny, and the general price of a pull suit with this effect is also around 3000 yuan. The bigger the brand, the stronger the functionality and the higher the price.

The anti-fall part is related to the built-in protective gear. There are two kinds of protective gear, one is hard protective gear and the other is soft protective gear. Of course, each movable joint should also be thickened to increase wear resistance.

The hard protective gear is mainly embodied in adding a layer of plastic on the surface of the protective gear to prevent it from being pierced by other hard objects when falling off the car. Its disadvantage is that it is heavier. Soft protective gear generally adopts sponge pad to achieve the effect of shock prevention, with the advantage of being lighter.

Of course, when shopping, it still depends on personal preferences. It should be noted that the protective devices at all joints must have good coverage and be highly attached to the limbs, otherwise they will be invalid.

Friends who often shop online may notice that there is also a "four seasons" among the keywords related to rally clothing. Because the tension suit can basically meet the needs of summer when the thermal liner is removed and the whole body ventilation hole is opened. But it is still not as breathable as summer cycling clothes. Whether it is really "a set of four seasons" depends on everyone's own economic ability.

Let's talk about riding clothes for running mountains first. To put it bluntly, it is also a summer cycling suit. After all, riding in winter can only rely on pulling clothes, but there are special mesh riding clothes to choose from in summer.

In fact, when buying summer cycling clothes, the fabric is also the first consideration. Like the above, we also rely on touch and understanding to explore the wear resistance of fabrics. However, because it is a cycling suit with more breathable mesh, if the mesh is woven too loosely, it will easily break when it falls.

Therefore, while ensuring the thickness of the fabric, you can also hold it up by hand to check the elasticity of the cycling suit and the tensile strength of the mesh and seams. The protective gear part is the same as above.

If it is mostly used for street painting, the choice is wider. The above two are mainly based on protection, supplemented by street painting and protection, and good-looking is the first element.

Generally speaking, jeans with soft protective gear will be selected for the bottom outfit, and denim fabric has wear-resistant effect, as long as the elasticity and version suit you. Tops are mostly coats, similar to summer riding clothes. In summer, mesh clothes are the majority, and in winter, leather jackets are more choices.

After all, the speed of street riding is not fast, and most street brushes are mainly for commuting and leisure. So you just need to ensure that all parts of the protective gear are complete, and the fabric and style of the clothes are determined according to your own eyes.

It should be noted that many cycling clothes do not have breastplates and backboards, because the bones on the chest and back of the human body are densely distributed, which has a protective effect, but it is also a lazy practice. When you buy cycling clothes, you must choose products with complete protective gear, and there is no need to care about the price difference.

Relatively speaking, the carapace may really only be effective in an emergency, but the breastplate is different. For a simple example, many friends have met it. When riding a bicycle, you suddenly run into flying sand and stones or throw foreign objects from the front car, including those birds with no eyes. Even if you are not fast at the moment, the forces are mutual, and the impact force generated when two moving objects collide is not small. At this time, if there is no breastplate protection, it will inevitably make you extremely painful and difficult to control the car, which will lead to other dangers.

If you are fast, hitting any small hard object may have the same effect as a bullet. Although it can't reach the power of a real bullet, it's better to have a breastplate around than nothing.

Ok, that's all. I hope I can help you. If you have any other questions or different opinions, please leave a message in the comment area for discussion. Next time, Bian Xiao will discuss with you how to buy helmets, gloves and bicycle shoes.