Buying a Motorcycle Suit, What to Look For?
If you're anything like me, you've never given a second thought to how your motorcycle suit are made or how safe your motorcycle suit actual is.
Motorcycle Suit Leather
The most important thing about your motorcycle suit is the quality of the leather, it could be the difference between a new suit and a new arm. Unfortunately it's quite difficult to check, without putting a hole through it and tearing it.Brazil is the biggest exporter of leather in the world and the tanning processes they use pass all the worldwide regulations, so look out for this. Kangaroo leather is stronger still because the fibers are tightly packed and full of collagen.
Motorcycle Suit Stitching
Most people look for triple stitching, but be aware that anything on the outside of the suit is just for decoration, as soon as it hits the road it'll rip and the suit will come apart, even sometimes just the force of an impact can blow a seam. What you should be looking at it all the seams being internally double stitched, always look inside. Most suits have removable lining these days, so pull it out and have a look, you should really be looking at three rows of stitching on the inside to be sure. Look for thicker, strengthened, nylon bonded thread for impact areas and thinner where it doesn't matter. This way you know that somebody who knows what he was doing made it.
