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| BMW Summer 3 Pants |
I felt delighted with the styling and comfort of my new BMW
Summer Pants, and just to be sure, I tested the conversion from pants to shorts
and back again before I left the dealer showroom. The proof of the pudding is
always in the eating, so the following day I decided to take my new jeans on a 500km
run from Safety Bay (Western Australia) to Porongurup. My Ulysses Motorcycle Club
bear came along for the ride, too, as he had been nagging me for some time about
a badge for his riding jacket; like everyone else, Bear’s got to earn his
stripes too.
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| Bear at Donnybrook |
The air temperature was 24°C
and the jeans felt comfortable and were breathing well all the way to our first
pit stop at Donnybrook. The cargo pockets are great, although I would prefer a velcro
fastening instead of press studs. It was nice to see that I stopped worrying
about my keys as they were safely stowed away in a zipped hip pocket. The velcro ankle strap is worth its weight in
gold and easily kept the jeans off the ground and stopped them from riding up.
It warmed up for the next leg to Manjimup, my temperature gauge
nudging 32°C.
Not far out of Bridgetown, a crow decided to test the hip protection and
slapped me on the right. Sadly the bird lay stone dead in the road but the armour
did its job and I don’t even have a slight bruise to help tell the story; I was
starting to think “I was meant to buy these jeans.”
I felt warm in my jeans while I sipped tea in Manjimup, but
I was smiling in the sure knowledge that if I’d been going for a walk around
the township, I’d just convert my Summer Pants to shorts and be pretty dam
comfortable.
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| Some nice back roads |
While the farming folk were home enjoying lunch in the cool
of their farmhouse kitchens, we rode on to Porongurup. Although the sun was
lighting the way, it was hot on our backs and I started to understand why there
were venting holes in the knee armour. We stopped at Rocky Gully to hydrate
once more and I was hot in those jeans, but I would have felt hot in any jeans.
In summary, I’m loving my new Summer Pants, I haven’t washed
them yet but with a two year warranty they’ve got the tick from me.
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| Bear showing off his Albany Commemorative pin |
PS It seems that commemorative pins are out of fashion in
small towns like Porongurup, so Bear had to ride on to Albany before he could
find a pin for his riding jacket.
