hello I'm Ryan f9 and today we're going
to crash test regular jeans vs. riding
jeans
our contenders have a few things in
common both of them support the typical
five pocket design wallet wallet hand
hand and the pocket watch just in case
you live in 1885 also they have similar
weighted denim icon was quick to brag
about the 14 ounces in their riding jean
which is kind of ironic because the
regular wrangler is actually 14.5 ounces
and that's where the similarities stop I
mean our $200 icon overlord has TPU knee
armor backed up with Cee level-one d3o
the knees and the seats are also
reinforced with error mids
which differ from Kevlar by registered
trademark and not much else
meanwhile the $25 wrangler relaxed fit
has jack-shit it's just a jean v torture
test today I fully expect the icon
overlord to win all of them but the
question is by how much our first test
is puncture strength
Rambo's BB gun shoots at 500 feet per
second or 550 kilometers an hour to the
ear of a motorcyclist not that any of us
could actually go that fast let alone in
riding jeans but if we did what would
happen if we ran into a pebble a pointy
or pebble or a downright sharp pebble
it's time to find out
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well uh looks like the Wranglers did
stop the Phoebe but the other two shots
appear to have gone right through
now I'll fire the same volume the aramid
ass of our icon over there
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so this time we stopped the BB and the
lead pellet the penetrating pellet still
man through but even still that's a plus
one for writing genes now we're gonna
test abrasion resistance with a belt
sander I have 40 grit to approximate
asphalt and a 19 kilometers spinning
speed to approximate sliding Wranglers
are going down first Wow
three and a half seconds for the regular
jeans Wranglers were originally designed
for wrastling cattle in the 1940s so I
expected better from them time to see
how the motorcycle genes compare
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all right seven seconds to get through
the denim and the aramid abrasion layer
this twice is good I can also say that
these didn't heat up as much as the
Wranglers that's a great thing about
aramid's they protect you from the
friction heat of a crash as well so plus
three point five for the riding jeans
since that's how many extra seconds
they'll buy you before you start losing
skin just for curiosity's sake let's see
how the riding pants slide in the areas
that don't have that air mid backing
behind hmm well that's interesting two
seconds is less than the Wranglers gone
looks like icons riding denim isn't
anything special without its aramid
backing sure icon would love for us to
move on from that rather embarrassing
result so let's take this good moment to
contemplate the nature of failure and
meanwhile I'll dock one and a half
points since that's the number of
seconds that the icon overlord fell
short of the regular angular's when we
tested the area without aramid speaking
of things without aramid the overlord
stitching there's no kevlar no nylon in
fact there's nothing special in this
thread except for a [ __ ] ton of yellow
dye
I reckon seam strength won't be much
superior to the regular Jean
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starting from the point of first
resistance the regular Wranglers last 15
cranks on the carjack before splitting
the fabric meanwhile the icon overload
lasts through 22 cranks also splitting
through the fabric before even busting a
theme so very good all-around notch
another 7 points for the riding team now
impact is a complex phenomenon of
physics there are elements of velocity
and acceleration momentum and impulse
force and shock so naturally we're going
to measure it with a cantaloupe and a
sticker no protection from the Wranglers
whatsoever
we blew past 100 GS on the shockwatch
stickers and totally shattered our
kneecap surrogate gross wow it's a
totally different story with the
Overlord it's much less damage to the
cantaloupe and less than 100 G's do we
test the 50g sticker though Pat no we
did fail 50 G's so impact protection was
better on the motorcycle gene but by how
much
well I do generate a hundred and five
miles per hour of club head speed and of
course the first step is to change that
into sensible units so now we're gonna
have to grab the kinematic equation so
we have D equals V naught T plus 1 over
280 squared so then solving for our
friend Newton and dividing by the
gravitational constant 9.8 we're gonna
get our answer about 180 3.99
and we'll call it about 184 G's so
that's what I can put into an
unprotected cantaloupe but of course the
icon overlord would have stopped some of
that because we know only between 50 and
100 G's got through according to the
shark watch sticker so somewhere between
84 and 134 G's is what the icon Overlord
succeeded in preventing will split the
difference and call it about 109 G's
better than the regular riding patch now
we're gonna look at fire resistance oh
and everything goes to hell I bet you
these Wranglers are gonna burn through
pretty quick
and we're starting to get through there
now yep
straight through head over here to the
overlord his air made in here aramid has
a higher heat capacity and so we'd
expect it to take longer for us to get
through it indeed it's looking like
that's probably gonna be the case we're
not really getting too much go through
here just starting to come through the
first layer a denim now but we're not
quite through the air mid layer
underneath it yet so yeah it's doing
pretty well
nice work icon I'll take a look at the
nice ladder up here you know these PPR
sliders have a knack of scratching up
your tank which is kind of shitty also
the denim the ink in it really leaks
first time you watch these guys just
leads everywhere it's not fun either
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so the motorcycle jeans were more
fireproof in fact it took about four
seconds longer to burn through them than
the regular jeans adding it all up our
motorcycle Jean was better by a hundred
and twenty three points one pellets
worth of puncture strength two seconds
of abrasion resistance seven cranks of
seam strength a hundred and nine Gees of
impact resistance and four seconds of
fire proofing despite our totally [ __ ]
scoring system the conclusion is pretty
clear riding jeans are better than
regular jeans next week we have quite an
interesting one this brand new climb
adventure glove versus a two-year-old
climb adventure glove so the safety
really degrade over time is it worth
replacing your old motorcycle gear we'll
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