ALPINESTARS Ride Tech Bottom Winter Black-Grey

Regulate your lower body temperature with these thermal pants. Strictly speaking, it is underwear but you can call it technical textile or a thermal base layer. ‘Underwear’ sounds a little too simplistic for everything these ALPINESTARS Ride Tech Bottom Winter have to offer.

There’s underlayers and there are underlayers. Regulating temperatures, cooling or heating are a little one-dimensional for these winter long pants that are categorised as keeping your body temperature at level, without external batteries or heat elements.

The ALPINESTARS Ride Tech Bottom Winter use a couple of dual density layers ensuring extra moisture-wicking properties. They will keep your body at a steady 37 degrees, in all circumstances. They don’t feel too hot when you wear them in the house, which will be a welcome surprise to many.

Wicking moisture and retaining heat is what Alpinestars does with a textile made from polypropylene and elastane. The latter reveals that tight is the way to go. It should, because the seamless construction has a tubular compression fit that offers muscle support, postponing fatigue. In colder circumstances, every bit of energy counts and muscles consume a lot of that in those conditions. This allows your body to focus more on temperature retention.

You wear the ALPINESTARS Ride Tech Bottom Winter as a base layer. This is no wear-resistant motorcycle clothing with protectors.

To complete the set and to keep temperatures constant: there’s also a thermal underlayer for the top half of your body.