The Truth Your Riding Gear Won’t Tell You
Adventure Rider Radio
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
We all choose our riding gear for comfort, style, and weather protection — trusting that if it’s sold as motorcycle gear, it must also keep us safe in a crash. But how much of that trust is based on proof, and how much is just assumption? This week we speak with the head of one of the world’s only independent labs that secretly buys gear off the shelf, crash-tests it, and publishes the results. What they’ve uncovered may completely change the way you think about the gear you’ve been relying on.
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| 0:00.0 | You're probably wearing the riding gear that you have right now because of how it looks, how it feels, how it handles the weather, keeps you dry, warm, gives you enough airflow on a hot day. That's usually where the focus goes. |
| 0:18.2 | And while you're thinking of those things, you just assume that it's going |
| 0:21.0 | to protect you in a crash. You trust the brand name, maybe how much you spent on it, the feel |
| 0:26.2 | of the material, maybe the marketing that says it's tough and you believe it's going to do its job. |
| 0:31.5 | But why do you believe that? I mean, if something is sold as motorcycle gear, you're going into a motorcycle store to buy protective |
| 0:39.6 | gear, there's an underlying assumption that it must be protective. It looks the part, it's marketed |
| 0:45.2 | as gear for riding, so why would you even question it? And yet, the protection is probably the most |
| 0:52.2 | important reason to wear gear in the first place. |
| 0:55.1 | I mean, if it doesn't offer any real protection, it would completely change everything about how you ride. |
| 1:00.0 | Because otherwise, why would you spend all this money? |
| 1:02.0 | And why would you wear this heavy, bulky gear? |
| 1:05.2 | You do it because deep down, you expect it to protect you. |
| 1:09.3 | Even though you've probably never seen any proof that it actually |
| 1:12.6 | does. This week, we're talking to a man who runs one of the only labs in the world that |
| 1:18.6 | secretly buys gear off the shelf, crash tests it, and then publishes the results. And what that |
| 1:26.3 | team that works with him has discovered |
| 1:28.4 | might change the way you look at your own riding gear, |
| 1:32.3 | the gear that you've been trusting all along, |
| 1:34.8 | often without ever really knowing why. |
| 1:37.6 | I'm Jim Martin. |
| 1:38.7 | This is Adventure Rider Radio. |
| 1:40.5 | Stay with us. |
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