Best leather/mesh pants for heat?

[Auron]

I don't have an ST any more but it's the hottest bike I can think of so I thought I'd come here to ask. There are more manufacturers with mesh and leather that look like they wouldn't be too hot but still protecvt your legs from engine heat. Anyone have a particular pant that works well?

https://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/revit-ignition-3-pants

 

[SMSW]

Not pants, but sit on a bead rider and you will be surprised how much air flows down there.

 

[Coop]

Klim Mojave have leather inside the leg from the knee down. I like them. YMMV

 

[CYYJ]

I've been satisfied with the BMW Airflow jacket & pants that I bought about 10 years ago. Not cheap, but very well made and very comfortable.

Michael

 

[DeanR]

Motoport stretch kevlar.

 

[Duporth]

Motoport Air Mesh Kevlar

 

[ST Gui]

I'd think (but have no actual experience) that if the ST really heats up your legs that mesh pant would just allow more of it to hit the leg. I have no skin in that game as the ST's heat has never bothered me.

 

[beemerphile]

I'd think (but have no actual experience) that if the ST really heats up your legs that mesh pant would just allow more of it to hit the leg. I have no skin in that game as the ST's heat has never bothered me.

That's what I have found. I use non-vented pants and a vented jacket in the heat. I agree with @CYYJ that the BMW clothing is very good. Comfortable with good armor and it stays in place. I was very sad to retire my road-worn BMW Comfort Shell suit in exchange for a Klim Badlands suit with a Klim Induction Jacket for the hot days. The Comfort Shell adapted to the weather. I thought it was marketing BS, but it was comfortable from the Grand Desert of Nevada up to the top of the Northwest Territories. Wish I had another one. I had an Airflow jacket to work with my Comfort Shell pants, but seldom needed it. I use the Induction jacket a lot because the Badlands doesn't vent very well and it gets too hot for it very quickly. Other than a wonderful Klim TK1200 helmet, most Klim gear has left me wishing I had shopped elsewhere. I've often been curious about the Rev-it! brand and may give it a go next time around (if there is one). But no vented pants please. Another advantage of the vented top and unvented pants is that when you hit rain it is a lot easier just to pop on a rain jacket than to do the roadside two-step trying to get into rain pants.

 

[jspringator]

I wore a Klim Latitude Misano jacket (black) on a hot August day in the Badlands a couple of years ago and I thought I was going to have heat stroke. I don't know what I was thinking. My Badlands Pro Pants (grey) were OK because they had leather inserts to block the heat in the appropriate places and huge vents. I only use that jacket in the winter now.

The zipper on the pants that zips to the jacket is in a real bad spot on the Badlands Pro. It is inside the pants on a flap, that even when the flap is pulled up is still an inch below the top of the waistband. That means you have to open up your pants to zip the Jacket into the pants. I bet that doesn't happen often. I've got cheap mesh pants with the zipper on the outside that makes zipping the pants to the jacket at least doable.

I'm not sure the Klim stuff is all it is cracked up to be either.

 

[GGely]

Although I can tell there’s a bunch of heat from my engine, I don’t feel it’s extreme. Right now I’m using Tourmaster overpants, which aren’t particularly well vented but aren’t bothering me enough to spend any money.

I am looking at the Olympia Airglide pants if I can find a used pair at a reasonable price.

 

[TerryS]

I found that wearing my non-vented Alpinestars textile pants WITH the thermal liner in place was more cooler on my legs in summer than without the liner. That would be an insulation effect I guess.

 

[Daboo]

Olympia X-Moto 2 pants.

The thigh portion unzips and tucks down into the lower leg portion, leaving you with a large mesh area on the thighs. They also have a wind/waterproof liner that can be used to block wind in the cooler times of the year, and as a standalone rain pant when needed. Between the liner, the pant zipped up and the thigh portion zipped down, I've found I can wear these pants in temps from the teens to over 100 F.

If you watch Olympia gear, it goes on closeout every couple years as they change product names. I doubt you can find much difference between the X-Moto 2 pant and the ones I have from several years ago that I got for @$180.

Chris

 

[ReSTored]

Olympia Airglide pants have worked well for me. Have had about 6 - 7 years and they are still in great shape.

 

[drbuzzard]

i'm wearing first gear mesh-tex pants but there is no leather in them

 

[Happy Rob]

Tourmaster Tracker pants for me. Vented with decent protection. And cost effective.

 

[Freakination]

REV'it Ignition 3 https://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/revit-ignition-3-pants