ALPINESTARS' 2013 collection of riding gear includes the new Vika leather jacket and trousers designed for women riders.Here's what the company has to say about the new products:VIKA is Alpinestars' new motorcycle apparel capsule collection

jackets, and trousers which you can mix and match with textiles. Over the last few years modern fabrics, like Cordura and Goretex, have given motorcyclists another option. Cordura is lighter than leather, more hardwearing and washable and unlike leather

and your leather riding gear, including suits, jackets, trousers, gloves and even boots, subject to a £50 excess.''Standard helmet and leathers policies just don't cut it anymore. Our H&L policy takes account of the typical value of helmets and leathers

If you do thousands and thousands of miles, this is the sort of suit you should be looking at if you don’t fancy wearing made-to-measure leathers.It’s big bucks – the same price as bespoke leathers.The zip, sorry, Gore Lockout Closure, is a

in the elbows and shoulders and PE padding in the chest and back compartments.The jacket includes  waist adjustment with a D-ring and a zip connection for Alpinestars leather and textile trousers.If resembling an Imperial Stormtrooper is too much, the jacket

Looking like you’ve created a rip in the space-time continuum, pulling up in modern Britain on a ’70s Ducati 750 sporting huge sideburns and aviators.Alpinestars’ Flat Out leather jacket may have retro styling but the protection is definitely up

to cover - at speed on a superbike - my options were pretty limited. I went for the Alpinestars 365 GTX leather jacket and trousers, S-MX R Gore-Tex boots and 365 Gore-Tex gloves.I wanted the protection of leather but the weatherproofing of Gore-Tex. Here

lining such as Gore-Tex has many advantages over the leathers and oversuit option. For a start the jackets and trousers are far more versatile, with removable linings, body armour, pockets and multi-adjustments. Providing the breathable membrane works

DAINESE has announced a whole bunch of new kit for 2013. The Italian company's new Crono leathers, the P.Estiva one-piece and the Div two-piece, are technical suits boasting aluminum shoulder inserts and certified composite and pro-shape soft

100% waterproof leathers? That'll be a first BMW HAVE just launched a leather suit they claim's 100% waterproof.The Atlantis 4 suit is made from nubuk 1.2 - 1.4 calfskin. Under the water-repellent leather, the suit has a climate