Riding Gear

Well, we all love to ride motorcycles specially boys. Riding your motorcycle on a broad road talking to air, this feeling is something you can’t explain in words. But these days’ accidents are increasing in a rapid rate, it’s not always your fault it can be someone else, it’s not in your hands but your safety is. What talking about is people love ride they love to show their skills specially boys who’re always ready to take their motorcycle to its limits without thinking about the roads, their safety and other people on the road. Whether you’re an amateur in riding or a professional you need a good riding to protect yourself not only from crash injuries but also from sun burn, precipitation or debris. Riding gear also keep the rider warm, cool or hydrated and express the rider style and his social identity. Now even the riding gears are improved so much that they support the platform for wearable or embedded devices like intercoms, GPS, Cell phones and mounts for helmets.

Well the above we discussed about what is riding gear for and why should buy them, now let’s talk about all different gears and there uses. But first we talk about its major purpose in detail which is ‘crash protection’.

Crash protection

The first gear which comes in our mind if we think about crash is ‘helmet’ right. As people always give the helmet priority, I’m not saying we shouldn’t, we should but we also have to understand that with helmet other riding gears are too important. We say advertisement everywhere for wear helmet and you ride safely but helmet can’t protect our whole body. So helmets are important but with that other riding gears like jackets, leathers, boots, and gloves to cover our entire body form injuries.

Now the second point is how a riding gear can protect a rider 

from weather. Let’s find out

Weather

Riding gear is the most protective garment and gives you proper protection from the wind blast you face while riding and protect you from every kind of weather. These garments keep the rider cool, warm and dry either with insulation and ventilation. Well there some motorcycle armor which is minimalist in design they only serve to protect you from crash, while some are intended to be combined with other clothing.

Appearance

Riders think that wearing the gears will make them look stupid and uncool (teenager's) they think riding like a squid make them look cool and popular among people, But the truth is it only makes them look stupid and makes other people to think that all the riders are same but it's not true at all. So riding gears manufacturers always keep appearance in their mind and provide a rider good looking jackets, boots, helmets, and gloves keeping the riders fitting and comfort on point so the rider won’t face issues while riding in different climatic conditions. Riding gears comes with tons of modifications option so if any rider is not satisfied with the designing or any other he can customize it by himself. Motorcycling accessories industry is showing growth and that’s the reason now the motorcycle manufacturers making their own brand accessories and selling them around the world so that the rider can match up with the beauty he’s riding.

Other purposes

If we talk about what else can a riding gear provide us, well riding gears can provide you variety of pockets for holding up your digital devices and communication devices like smartphones, GPS, navigation devices. You can setup your wired two-way communication device through specialized clothing. It also include the helmet mounted displays along with the visor's that protect your face from wind blast.

Now let’s straight talk about then gear’s and the first one is as we all can guess…

Helmets

Well we all now helmets are made to protect our head, now according to a study  45% percent of all impacts to motorcycle helmets occur around the face and chin. So if you’re buying an open face helmet or three-quarter type helmets so be careful as this type of helmets won’t protect you from these impacts. If your face hits the surface at speed I bet you want to be wearing a full-face helmet. They also protect you from wind blast, bugs and protect your face from sunburn. Now day’s modular helmets are becoming popular, since they provide the convenience of a three-quarter helmet but the protection of a full-face helmet. If we talk about the helmets life then according to manufacturers helmets have a five-year life. After that the materials that provide impact absorption can begin to degrade, it gets a straight impact on performance of helmet when it counts. So always choose the right helmet for the kind of riding you plan to do, as street helmets and dirt helmets are purpose made and they will protect you better in their own environment.

Jackets

After helmet the second important gear is jackets, well all gears important but our focus goes to these gears first. So Motorcycle jackets are made of leather or textile. Manufacturers use high-quality materials of textile which are able to resist abrasion as strongly as leather, the textile jackets also include the water-resistant membranes which are capable of keeping you dry in bad weather. The other benefit of textile jackets is that they’re more affordable then leather jackets. But that doesn’t mean that leather jackets are not capable of protecting you, in fact leather jackets are more durable but they’re not adjustable for comfort in all kinds of weather as you can’t wear leather jackets in hot summer. Motorcycle jackets come with you won’t find elsewhere, as they’re doubled up to protect the stitching from abrasion and increase the strength. These jackets designed to fit in high-speed wind blast so they won’t flap round, they’ve adjustable air vents. They also have body armor and impact absorbing material that cushions your most vulnerable parts in a crash (if you know what I mean). Now some jackets feature zipper around the bottom, or at the back but if your jacket zipper doesn’t match up with your pants then just go to your local tailor. Choose your jacket carefully considering your weather that you’re most frequently riding in.

Pants

Well here I’m talking about your regular jeans because they will not protect you in motorcycle crash, Trust me I’m telling you this with personnel experience. Cotton has less than a quarter of the abrasion resistance of leather or good textile pants. Riding pants that are made of textile are made from cordura, which is the name brand for a high abrasion resistance type of nylon fabric. Jeans can offer you more abrasion resistance but they still compromise as they can’t provide you the protection of true riding pants. Same as jackets riding pants are made of textile and leather and are equipped with the armor in the hips and knees. They should fit you but on the other side they’re comfortable. Choose them wisely.

Boots

If you’re an Indian rider then I guess I don’t have to tell you the struggle of Indian roads, unpredictable surface that surprises you every time you ride. Now just think about the weight of your bike, you’ll need to support that weight through your legs, ankles and feet on slippery, uneven roads. Now only for this reasons alone, a sturdy pair of boots with oil resistance, good ankle support and non-slip soles should be considered minimum.  Your normal footwear will not give provide support to your toe and ankle , as a result if you had a crash that normal footwear of yours would not be able to prevent the twist. So the best riding boots will prevent that twisting, with help of strong heel and toe boxes which reduce the force of impacts to those areas. Armor over the ankle and shin protects those areas.

Gloves

The human’s hands are very fragile. And unfortunately they’re the first thing to touch down in any crash.  This is a defense mechanism in our body it signals to the brain and our hands sacrifice themselves to save our head. So good gloves always protect your hands and cover your hands completely, as they’re made of abrasion-resistant materials and strong protecting stitching. Always make sure to check stitching of gloves before buying as if the gloves have uneven stitching and thin leather they will give up on impact. These gloves have armor at the base of your palm and this is where your hands will land in a crash.

So, always make sure to buy riding gears with your motorcycle and be careful and choose your gears depending on your surroundings.