kevlar jeans again!

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I'm after your opinions here. i'm looking at getting some summer jeans and have checked out draggin, hood and hein gericke and they all look good but I recently saw a pair of halvarssons armoured trousers and really liked them.( I have their jacket and winter trousers and really like the fit and quality) What I want to know is; do you think their kevlar equivilant is better than the draggin or hood, after all they use it in the ce approved safety suit?
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Grim
 
Halvarrsons stuff is proper nice stuff mate. Their safety jacket *cant remember the proper name* was the only textile to exceed the protection offered by leather and I would have no quarms in buying their kit.

Ill be putting a pair of kelvar'd jeans on the for sale section later - size 38 from memory.... joe rocket ones ... £20.
 
I bought the Draggin jeans last summer they seem ok and fit well, as for Halvarssons as said above good gear and bit underrated I would say, I have the Halvarssons Cobra textiles pants and they are brilliant if there had been a dealer near me I probably would have gone for their jeans.
 
Bought some Dragging Jeans last week and wore them yesterday.

Pretty impressed and very comfortable.
 
I guess the acid test is some feedback from someone who had "an off" wearing any of these. How they survive and protect you is the real factor, not that they just look nice or feel comfortable (although that matters as well of course).
 
CuriousYellow said:
I'd recomment hood jeans too (http://www.hoodjeans.co.uk/).
They are bringing out a jean with full length (31 inches) woven kevlar with extra knitted kevlar at impact areas too http://www.kyrano-uk.com/

Not cheep but no need for extra trousers at work (just a pair of waterproof trousers 8o)

Cheers,
Ian.
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I have a pair of Hood Jeans. Unlike most people I have had the chance to see how they perform as I slid across a French road after some cnut dropped diesel on a roundabout.

Luckily I was riding a French dealer's K1200R at the time (!) although the insurance excess of €350 that I lost wasn't quite as funny. Still, I found that at 45kph the damage to the left side of a K1200R is terminal. ****ed to be precise and the damage came to €3500 including rear frame!

Anyway, I don't have the armour in the Hoods. I slid about 30 yards on my left side and the jeans have no marks from the sliding. They are discoloured where I dried most of the diesel slick for the Frogs and when they were washed it took some of the blue colour out.

I suffered a large bruise on my left arse cheek and the best leathers couldn't haver stopped that.

I can thoroughly recommend buying Hood Jeans! I've told them, but the miserable bastards won't give me a discount on a new pair!!
 
Hood plus additional knee and hip amour, the woven Kevlar lining smacks of quality and safety.
Luckily not had the opportunity to fully test them yet.
 
I bought some Hood Concept 6 jeans a couple of weeks ago, great quality, first rate customer service etc.

The only thing I'd say against them, the knee armour fits in extra pockets behind the kevlar which keeps them comfortable, so why does the hip armour have to fit on dangly bits of velcro just inside the waistband? Surely they could have added some pockets? None of the other brands I looked at/tried on seemed to address this either so maybe folks who know more about making jeans than me have a reason?



No plans to slide down the road any time soon and test them though :D
 
2 pairs of Hoods have replaced a pair of Draggin Jeans and a pair of Heine Gericke jeans - the HG jeans got too old but the DG ones weren't very good IMHO - kevlar covered too small an area and the sizing / fitting was poor.

Hong Kong is too hot for leathers between May and October / November so the Hood jeans give that little extra confidence.

My 2p worth.

Nick
 
Thanks for your advice guys, I'm gonna try on the Halvarssons jeans and check the amount of Kevlar compared to the Hood which I will probably end up buying.
 
just recieved a pair of the halversons focker pants and am very impressed
more kevlar linning that my draggin cargo trs and are a better fit imo
very nicely put together bit of kit, just hope i dont have to "test" them out!
:beerjug:
 
JONYBOY said:
just recieved a pair of the halversons focker pants and am very impressed
more kevlar linning that my draggin cargo trs and are a better fit imo
very nicely put together bit of kit, just hope i dont have to "test" them out!
:beerjug:
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I have Hood cargo pants but the waistline seems to have gone tight. :confused:
I might have to buy some Halvarsson Fockers based purely on the name. :bounce1
 
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