Motorcycle Jeans

Wearing standard jeans on a motorcycle often sounds like an excellent idea to new riders: Denim is generally seen as being a hard-wearing fabric that can handle almost anything we throw at it. But most riders don't realise that coming off a bike at 60mph is the equivalent of holding an 18-foot wide asphalt belt-sander against your ass, and hoping for the best. You'll have less than a second before the fabric is gone, and your delicate, lily-white bottom-flesh sliding across the tarmac is the only thing slowing you down. Ask anyone who's ever tried this and they'll tell you...