Without naming any names, I’ve tried on pairs of similar Kevlar weaves in the past and I just didn’t buy the claims the manufacturers were making. Unlike some of their competitors, you’ll have no real issue accepting that things are up to the task at hand. Sure, some of the stitching looks a little more ‘industrial’ than your average pants and the things are definitely ‘substantial’ in their build and heft, but that’s nothing that can’t be said for a quality pair of denim jeans either. Yes, they do have a few extra seams to distinguish themselves from your garden variety pair of 511s, but most casual observers would be hard-pressed to tell the difference unless they get a real close, and by that time you’re probably more concerned about getting lucky or firing up your taser than you are with abrasion resistance.Įarnest goes to great lengths describing how their ‘K-Canvas’ materials will protect your skin in the hopefully unlikely case of some unwanted freeway breakdancing lessons, but to my untrained eye, the stuff is as close to regular denim, which in my books is a very good thing. So if you’re a black jeans kind person off the bike, then these little fellas will tick most of your boxes once your butt is bike-bound. ![]() Sure, camo patterns and the ever-popular cargo 47 pocket look still hold their own but personally, I mostly want my pants to protect my southern junk from angry tarmac rather than to fight for attention. Thankfully the Tasker pants understand that sometimes, you want your pants to take a back seat in the ‘overall ensemble’ party. With a concise but highly refined range including overall, aprons, pants jackets and gloves, a quick perusal of their gear reminds any bikers with some remaining short term memory just how far we’ve come with our gear choices over the last 10 or 15 years. was started in New Zealand in 2012 by a bunch of bike and car customisers who needed some gear to do a rather particular set of things and just weren’t finding anything suitable from the gear makers of the time.īeing at the tip of the now popular ‘work look’ moto style, Earnest have made quite the splash down under, and they are now pushing hard to do the same in the US and Europe. Who’s Earnest, then?Ī grass-roots moto and workwear clothing business, Earnest Co. But should your day job involve any sort of tools, pens, rulers or general long pointy things, the pants have been rather subtly designed to allow you to accommodate these without a) looking like a Valentino Rossi moonlighting as a handyman or b) looking like a boilermaker trying to set a lap record. At least it’s not as big a deal as – say – a jacket that does the same thing. ‘My current bike pants already do that!’ I hear some of you murmur. And as per their ‘workwear’ affiliations, they are designed to be comfy and functional enough to allow you to wear them on and off the bike with a minimum of hassle. The pants are a ‘Kevlar infused’ design (as opposed to ‘Kevlar lined’, which means that the tough stuff is sewn into the pants behind the denim) that’s just about as close as you’ll get to a regular pair of black Levis without risking skin loss. definitely fit into that second group, but are they any good? These ‘Tasker’ pants from the Aussie slash New Zealand Earnest Co. Fast forward ten years and now we’re swamped with selvedge this and waxed cotton that. Unless you wanted to go for some top shelf leathers, most other options looked like Dad jeans or – worse still – like you’d just jumped off your Harley at the Sturgis show circa 1988. Forever the afterthought.īut why is this? Well, up until a few years ago, there was a real lack of decent pants available to riders. They are the last thing you think about after you’ve spent a small fortune on getting a kick-ass helmet, jacket and boots. ![]() And most times, this is exactly how the riding public treats them, too. It’s even funnier when the gear makers talk about them in the singular using the word ‘pant’. ‘PANTS!’ It’s like the punchline to a joke. They are the comedy sidekick of the moto gear world.
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