How to choose the best motorcycle racing suit?

by Emily Ela SEO Analyst

Much like every other piece of motorcycle protective gear, Custom motorcycle drag racing suits come in many different varieties and price points. It would behoove a shopper to spend the time researching motorcycle drag racing suit when looking to purchase, especially with regards to their available budget. In a perfect world, we all would be ready to afford the simplest race-suit call at the market, but the truth is that very similar to the gear themselves, shoppers also accompany varying degrees of budget, then affordability may be a wage scale from one rider to a different.

Regardless of your budget though, the one thing you should try and not compromise on is the fitment of your Custom motorcycle drag racing suit.

My Custom motorcycle drag racing suit, but the fitment left a lot to be desired. I do not trust this suit for love or money but street use.

A race-suit may be a rider's predominant protective gear over their body, meant to be worn as a second skin to require the brunt of an event should a rider finds themselves during a crash. Whether it be road rash from a slide, or hitting the pavement once or multiple times from falling off – or worse, being thrown off the bike – a rider's race-suit (and its built-in armor) is their first line of defense.

For me to write down that a race-suit needs to be like your second skin means it needs to fit a bit like that – skintight. An impeccably fitting suit that matches the rider just like the proverbial glove will work as intended intentionally. If improperly fitting, the inside armor like the elbow and knee pads may slide or move between the suit and your body, rendering them unable to guard the vital joints they were intended for. If not tight enough, the extra "wiggle room" may let your body slip or slide inside the racing suit, leading to friction burn or gashes on your actual skin. I know one can argue that a small or focused area of skin trauma is a lot better than a full-on road rash if you were without a suit at all, but take it from me – you don't have to make a compromise. A properly fitting Custom motorcycle drag racing suit will not harm you even a little just for the sake of it doing its job.

How to choose the best track-suit

My old custom motorcycle drag racing suit; the left knee pad rotated away from my knee at impact, tearing the inside seams open and gashing my knee.

Now maybe you have to pay top-dollar for the best track-suit you can find, or maybe even more for a custom-fitted suit (there's no better fit than custom-fit), but if you CAN afford it, it's smart money spent wisely.

Fortunately, not all suits are created equal, and not all suits priced at the low-end are necessarily cheap in quality. Take my Comet Leather Racing-suit, a model that has long been discontinued but to this day remains to be the only suit I trust to use around the racetrack. I have yet to find anything that fits me as well as this suit except maybe for a true custom-fit suit, and even then, I may just ask the tailor to make the dimensions EXACTLY like my Comet Racing Leather suit. The suit has survived a high-side crash and a low-side crash, each time letting me walk away unscathed with no broken bones or skin trauma.