{"id":1495948,"date":"2021-12-30T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/?p=1495948"},"modified":"2021-12-30T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T23:26:16","slug":"held-marlow-jeans-review-the-ultimate-in-riding-denim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/held-marlow-jeans-review-the-ultimate-in-riding-denim\/","title":{"rendered":"HELD MARLOW JEANS REVIEW \u2013 THE ULTIMATE IN RIDING DENIM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cOpen the bag,\u201d Ray said, plonking a hefty back-pack kinda thingy with a big Held logo onto my kitchen counter.<\/p>\n

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I opened it and discovered a pair of jeans. They felt\u2026well, very substantial.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJeans,\u201d I said. \u201cIn a bag. Interesting concept.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cLook closer,\u201d Ray grinned.<\/p>\n

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I looked. I felt. I even sniffed the damn things to see if that revealed anything new.<\/p>\n

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Quality guaranteed by Germany.<\/p><\/div>\n

I saw the jeans were actually made in Germany, which pleased me greatly. Far too much bike gear is made in Pakistan these days by people seeking to profit from cheap labour and incredibly iffy manufacturing standards.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s very easy to get your crap made in a third-world shithole, tell people it\u2019s designed in Australia\/America\/England and think you\u2019ve fooled the buyer into imagining he has bought a quality item.<\/p>\n

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Designed in Australia? For sure. Here\u2019s a picture OF THAT BULLSHIT\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cMehmet. Make me something that looks just like this Picture I have sent you on the Internet so I can sell it for 20 times what I\u2019m paying you. Oh, and leave off the Made In Pakistan label and sew on the Designed In Australia label. There\u2019s a good chap, Insha\u2019Allah.<\/p>\n

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You all know that. That\u2019s how things roll \u2013 not only in the motorcycle garment industry, but in many other garment industries.<\/p>\n

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Just understand, you are getting EXACTLY what you pay for. EXACTLY. And you\u2019ll appreciate that the very first time you need the garment to do what it\u2019s meant to do and it doesn\u2019t. Oh well, huh?<\/p>\n

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I’ve worn them everywhere…<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Big-name brands do make a lot of their stuff in countries where labour is cheaper. But, and this is the difference between big-name brands and the little wannabes, big-name brands build their own manufacturing facilities in the cheap-labour countries. The quality control is on-site. Their reputations are on the line.<\/p>\n

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…on everything.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, when you do get a motorcycle garment that is actually made in and by a first-world industrial superpower, like Germany, you can rest assured it is as good as it gets. You\u2019re going to pay a premium, but once again, you are getting EXACTLY what you\u2019re paying for.<\/p>\n

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And these Held Marlow jeans that come in their own bag, are as good as riding jeans come. Thanks to the materials used and the quality of the craftsmanship that goes into them, they are meant to be as, if not more, abrasion-resistant than leathers if you have an oopsie.<\/p>\n

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Jeans you don’t have to lie down to put on.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Is that the case? I don\u2019t know. I have not crashed in them. But I have researched them some. They are serious.<\/p>\n

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They are made from Armalith fibre. And Armalith fibre is made by combining Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) with cotton fibre.<\/p>\n

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For the science nerds, this means that at a molecular level the chains of polyethylene are extremely long, which gives them an incredible tensile strength. How incredibly strong? Its tensile strength is stronger than steel.<\/p>\n

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It makes Kevlar and Cordura weak and struggling by comparison. Its features are so unique and it is so tough it has replaced Kevlar in bulletproof vests and the steel cables that once moored off-shore drilling rigs. It\u2019s also what they use for the re-entry cables on space modules.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re keen, there\u2019s a bunch of graphs that compare Armalith to its lesser rivals HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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TECHNOLOGY<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n