Heavier weight jeans

DJMK4 said:
People wear jeans riding bike ?


jeans are the last thing i would wear riding a bike
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generally no but when out and about, work etc, too much hassle changing etc. Also I noticed some of my blue jeans (which I didn't use to ride to work as much) still failed on knees/bum. My black jeans I used to work 5-6 days a day did fail. And the knees thin out so much so quickly they just split- even when rest of the jean was fine.

I used to bike in my old jeans when I was a kid and they lasted much longer and didn't fail on the bum hole area.
 
hornetstinger said:
generally no but when out and about, work etc, too much hassle changing etc. Also I noticed some of my blue jeans (which I didn't use to ride to work as much) still failed on knees/bum. My black jeans I used to work 5-6 days a day did fail. And the knees thin out so much so quickly they just split- even when rest of the jean was fine.

I used to bike in my old jeans when I was a kid and they lasted much longer and didn't fail on the bum hole area.
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lol

I think my first jeans some Levi's lasted for 20 years. I started to notice going from "outside work wear" thickness to casual wear- even when I went into a motorbike shop, the jeans are literally no thicker than casual jeans!!

Just annoying going through my jeans box and several of them with same failure
DJMK4 said:
if you get some proper cycling shorts or bottoms they come with extra padding on the bum hole area.
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I do have those but when I was working too much hassle to change in/out of clothes
 
and I remember I had a fairly new pair of jeans, and just doing something like putting together ikea cupboards or something so on my knees and just split open on the knee

wheras it would need a 15+ years old jeans to get that thin, and I remember falling off bicycle in jeans and they were still fine for many years after that....and newer pair falling off bicycle and tore at the knees.

pretty sure my first pair of jeans were thicker than the motorbike jeans
 
hornetstinger said:
I used to bike in my old jeans when I was a kid and they lasted much longer and didn't fail on the bum hole area.
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You were probably a lot lighter when you were a kid.

I am sure you are correct, that jeans have become less robust over the years. Manufacturing process tend to try and do more with less, which usually means diminishing quality.
 
tbh, thinking back, my last pair of jeans split on the bum hole area


I dont think this is just you, i think the quality of jeans has become a bit less recently


I may have crouched down to do something and they split

I tried to do a few repairs but in the end i gave up and bought 2 more pairs
 
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