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Its been a few years since I've been riding so I thought I would get some new gear to go with the new bike. Among other things I got a pair of Draggin' jeans. I know, I know denim will never be the best in crash protection but I'm old and fat and it gets hot in South Texas. Anyway, I ordered the jeans and to make myself feel better about it I added the optional knee protection.
The jeans shipped out and arrived promptly. They also looked good (well, like jeans) and seemed to be well made. Kevlar 360 around the knees and hips and wow, are they heavy. (They are supposed to be a heavy weight denim.) So far so good, but I notice I see no pockets for the knee armor. Hmmm.
Now I reach in the bag and pull out the knee pads and 4 pieces of adhesive backed velcro, hook side only, each about 1.5 inches long. According to the instructions you are supposed to stick the velcro to the armor and then place the armor on the kevlar in the desired position. You are warned that when removing the armor to wash the jeans that the velcro may pull up little tufts of fiber. That's it.
That's it? I am supposed to be protected by 6-8 inches of sticky back velcro? Not only that, the velco just BARELY clings to the kevlar and can be easily dislodged with a single errant toe while trying to put the jeans on. I even put the jeans on the floor and stepped on the armor trying to get it to stick. That worked about as well as you would expect. Now, as if that isn't bad enough, after maybe 3-5 hours of riding and repositioning the armor a couple of times the sticky back is separating from the armor. I'm certain that in an accident the one place these pads will not be is on my knees.
The sad part is I really like the jeans themselves and think they are going to be just what I wanted. Draggin" jeans made a good product and then went and screwed it up by offering these lame knee pads and making me feel somewhat ripped off.
Separating already :angry2:
((No cool signature yet. What'd you expect, I'm an FNG.))
The jeans shipped out and arrived promptly. They also looked good (well, like jeans) and seemed to be well made. Kevlar 360 around the knees and hips and wow, are they heavy. (They are supposed to be a heavy weight denim.) So far so good, but I notice I see no pockets for the knee armor. Hmmm.
Now I reach in the bag and pull out the knee pads and 4 pieces of adhesive backed velcro, hook side only, each about 1.5 inches long. According to the instructions you are supposed to stick the velcro to the armor and then place the armor on the kevlar in the desired position. You are warned that when removing the armor to wash the jeans that the velcro may pull up little tufts of fiber. That's it.
That's it? I am supposed to be protected by 6-8 inches of sticky back velcro? Not only that, the velco just BARELY clings to the kevlar and can be easily dislodged with a single errant toe while trying to put the jeans on. I even put the jeans on the floor and stepped on the armor trying to get it to stick. That worked about as well as you would expect. Now, as if that isn't bad enough, after maybe 3-5 hours of riding and repositioning the armor a couple of times the sticky back is separating from the armor. I'm certain that in an accident the one place these pads will not be is on my knees.
The sad part is I really like the jeans themselves and think they are going to be just what I wanted. Draggin" jeans made a good product and then went and screwed it up by offering these lame knee pads and making me feel somewhat ripped off.
Separating already :angry2:
((No cool signature yet. What'd you expect, I'm an FNG.))
