Alpinestars Air Flo Textile Pants Large
Alpinestars Air-Flo Textile Pants Great summer style and comfortableness is combined in these cleverly designed riding pants. The Air Flo scheme means greatest or most complete or best possible ventilation while riding with ease and protection. Increase your ventilation without compromising your safety when you combine these with the Cape Town Air Drystar, T-RC-1 Air or T-GP Plus Air Jacket. Features Muti-panel construction with lasting heavy mesh
Ballistic nylon reinforced knees, perforated foam padding and stretch fabric inserts
Comfortable elastic knitted panels on the back legs
Adjustable waist
Convenient extra-long zipper closure from the outside ankle to the inside of the leg
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 EXCELLENT pants.
By T. Newhouse
I wear these in hot weather as opposed to my Dainese race leathers on the street.This summer I have worn them each single day I ride, with the Dainese Wave Pro 2011 body armor rather of a jacket, Vertigo air boots, etc. These are regarding as cooll, temp wise, as you are going to get. One of the few pants without a ludicrous heavy liner (that doesn’t come out) like other pants, making other pants weigh a lot more than these, as well as blocking air flow.
These are as light a pants as you may buy without going to cheap MX pants, which are not designed for street use.
I wear the Dainese Mt. bike knee/shin guards, and Dainese Hard shorts with these pants for the armor percentage of the ensemble.
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 Better wear further and added padding underneath
By Chris
Overall I was a good deal of what disappointed with the quality being they are Alpinestars. I own their jackets, boots, gloves and knee protectors and this is a bit of a let down. The knee pads are flimsy and move around. No other padding what so ever. The leg zipper does unzip beauteous high permitting you to slip the pants over boots. I would commend only using these to throw over jeans if you’re going to do a quick run somewhere. I do wear them on warm days when doing my long rides throught the canyons and twisties. I supplement the pants by wearing padded crash shorts (extreme sports crash shorts) underneath along with the Alpinestars Bionic knee protectors. With these pants, you remunerate for what you get…..and a little less.
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During spring time the motorcycling community is buzzing with regards to what to wear for the next summer. A lot of reviews get written for gear persons have bought, but I noticed there’s a lack of reviews for the more high-end stuff. Well, I’ve rode the Alpinestars MX-1 leather jacket for two seasons now, and it still being the top jacket in their collection, I decisive to write a review of my experiences. This jacket is basically the MX-1 suit cut in half. It’s their third best suit and with the lower half cut off, makes for their best jacket.
- First and most importantly, protection. The jacket has an abundance of protection. There’s CE-approved paddings in the chest, back, shoulders and elbows, which is just in regards to the most you may comfortably wear. Being made of 1.2-1.4 mm high quality leather, and with all the important seams double-stitched, it’s guaranteed to take a bit of a slide rather well. Luckily, I haven’t tested this in action myself, yet. All the protective paddings are removable, and the back and chest protections are upgradeable into hard ones. These are rather cheap, $30 for the back and $40 for the chest, and I commend you upgrade atleast the back piece. Of course, it may be your own discerned back protector as well, but I unquestionably think that you will have to keep your spine behind a hard cover.
- Ventilation. This jacket is very well ventilated. The thermoplastic protections on the shoulders have big air intake scoops as well as exit vents. The back hump is perforated too, and it takes in a crazy amount of air. And while you can’t see much perforation on the front of the jacket, that’s because when you’re on a sportbike ducked down, the chest in truth wouldn’t even get that much air. There is perforation on the side of the hands as well as the stretch panel on them since they are a bit more exposed while riding. For the air to exit they have added little vents to where the shoulder blade area in the back. Overall, this jacket flows a lot of air, and will keep you cool. Downside of this is of course that it makes this jacket unusable in the colder months.
- Features and quality. Being a leather jacket, it’s bound to be a bit stiff at first. It will break in for you, and be a lot more comfortable once you get using it. With all the shelter in it, though, it is a heavy jacket. I personally don’t find this much of a problem, because it’s the price to remunerate for being protected. There’s galore handy features in the jacket. The front outside pockets are numerous warming material, I’d guess perhaps neoprene, and they’ll keep your hands warm. You may find a few pockets inside the jacket, too. On the 2008 model there’s neoprene on the cuffs and collar, making them actually comfortable. I think this is the only change from the 2007 model. It’s been unchanged since. There’s a zipper for connecting the jacket with your Alpinestars pants of choice. I personally ride with leather pants. Makes a great trackday suit this way. The jacket likewise comes with a thermal vest liner which may make your riding season a bit longer when it gets colder. Overall, the jacket is very well finished, as expected from Alpinestars. Next summer will be my jackets third season and it’s still kept up well.
To sum it up, the jacket is optimal for hot weather riding and combined with some leather pants, a great track day suit. It will not hold out rain for one bit, so if you have to ride in bad weather, you need to get another outfit. The cut of the jacket is optimized for aggressive sport bike riding and I don’t think it’d work too well in a more upright driving position. Retailing at in regards to $600, it is expensive, but I think it’s an magnificent jacket even for the price.
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