Speed and Strength Rage With The Machine Leather Denim Pants :: MotorcycleGear.com

Speed and Strength Rage With The Machine Leather Denim Pants

  • 1.0-1.2mm leather and 12oz denim frame
  • Removable Vault™ C.E. approved knee amor
  • Knees and seat reinforced with 1.2mm leather
  • Relaxed fit
  • Boot cut
  • YKK® zippers

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Sizing Information

The good news… we checked the waist and inseam of these jeans with a tape and happily they check out fine! Jeans typically measure out just about an inch bigger in the waist than their stated size as most makers “vanity size” their jeans just a touch. Inseam measurements were spot on with the stated size. So, our advice would be to choose the size you normally wear in men’s jeans.

The not-so-good-news… these jeans have a fit with a very long rise (the length from the waist band to the crotch. The way they are cut, the waist band has to be as high as your belly button. It is not unusual for overpants or motorcycle textile pants to fit higher on the waist, but it is unusual for a jean to be cut this way. There are advantages to this… with a tall waist, the jeans give good coverage on the back and belly under a shorter jacket. Also, when you sit, you don’t get plumber’s butt. The downside is that men with a belly or love handles aren’t going to like having the waist (and a belt) up that high, therefore I would only recommend these jeans to those that like a higher waist like this.

Speed and Strength products are marketed toward a younger crowd and it is possible I’m missing the point with the waist. Maybe they are trying to offer jeans where the crotch hangs way low when the waist is positioned normally. Is that the style? Anyway, consider yourself duly informed.

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Our Two Cents

These new Rage with the Machine Leather Denim pants are a slightly different twist on the riding jean. Normally, you’d expect to see some abrasion resistant panels in the seat and knees. With this jean, you get the normal Kevlar fabric in the seat, but in the knee area, you get hidden panels of perforated leather to back up the removable knee armor. Is that good or bad you ask?? I’d venture you’d probably get about the same abrasion resistant properties with this set up as compared to the other setup. The armor sits on top of the leather anyway, so in an actual crash, I’d guess the armor would take most of the punishment anyway.

There are a couple more touches of leather on the pants…. there is one belt loop in the back that is black leather (the rest are the same black denim as used on the pants), and there are a couple patches of inset leather to decorate the pockets and then one smaller patch on the upper/right corner of the back side of the seat. Those patches have stylized lettering that says “Rage with the Machine” on them, although in the small patches you really can’t make that out too easily. It’s all just styling really.

The knee armor setup is a bit different too. There is one pocket to hold the provided CE armor, and then there is a second pocket behind that, that is larger and wider which is apparently to allow you to use other aftermarket armor in place of the standard armor if you prefer. I really don’t think this will work very well because the larger pocket for this purpose is practically square and very long. Seems to me that any armor that wouldn’t fit in the first pocket would just rattle around inside the second pocket. Not sure what they were actually going for with this pocket setup, but I really think they blew it. Anyway, for the vast majority of buyers, they’ll just use the factory armor and the second pocket will forever remain a harmless mystery.

After having reached the end of this review, and having detailed the fit issues and armor oddities, I’m hoping that those of you who buy these jeans will have seen them somewhere, tried them on and love them. Otherwise, I’m afraid I’ll be seeing more than a normal number of returns. :: Paul, 03-28-17

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