Pants with looong zippers

[Rubberchicken]

So, for the three people still frequenting this place, a question.

Does anyone know of any overpants with really long leg zippers?
Like, the kind you can zip all the way open to stick an Alpinestars boot through with ease?

And on top of that the usual stuff, waterproof (some kind of membrane), half-decent knee/hip protection (or at least pockets for same), and ofcourse tall sizes.

This seems to be almost entirely Not A Thing, everything has the puny piddly short zippers that make you struggle to even put a boot under with the pants already on. Certainly not a thing you can find easily as even the ones that have zips like that hardly mention it.

Reason being, I've got decent bike gear but all regular pants, no overpants, and that turns out to be too much of an arse to deal with for taking the bike to work, so I almost never do anymore, and that won't do. So I figured some overpants might be in order and ideally they'd be ones I could put on and off without removing my shoes.

Does anyone know of anything like that?

 

[Steve T]

I'm using ex military water proof over trousers. The side zip goes right up to the waistband.

If I can find a link I will post it up.

I have a very large spare set (jacket & trousers) sitting doing nothing, if you can wait till September!

Link found:-

British Army MTP Goretex Waterproof Over Trousers - Used | Military Kit

These lightweight waterproof MTP Gore-Tex trousers are genuine British Army surplus in grade one condition and ideal for cadets, military, fishing, and all wet weather activities. The Gore-Tex fabric is completely waterproof and breathable, keeping you dry and comfortable with taped seams to...

www.militarykit.com

 

[Rubberchicken]

Yeah I've looked at those before, but these are rain pants and I like my knee/hip protection too.

I'd found the Revit Berlin pants, in theory that ticks all the boxes, they even come in Proper Long that'd still cover my ankles after I'd been riding the thing down the seat for a while. (You know how pant legs tend to creep up...)

But the zips are daft. The one on the right opens up to the waistband, fine, but the one on the left goes all the way through the waistband but zips up from the bottom to the top only so it doubles as the fly, and you won't believe what an arse it is to get the little zipper pull fiddled in all the way down there while doubled over in middle age with a bit of a gut. Tried it twice and hated it by then so that wasn't going to happen.

 

[RickSkye]

Person number 3
So you want waterproof over trousers with hip protection?

Bit confused. Maybe I have misunderstood.
Aren't you already wearing bike trousers with hip/nee protection?
I have motorcycle type over jacket and trousers, but you get more water inside from sweat.
I went to go outdoors and got cheapish breathable jacket and trousers that fit over bike kit. Not sure how durable but so far, great.
Several over trousers had full length zip.

 

[Rubberchicken]

When I go for a ride out I wear the proper gear.

This is for when I want to take the bike to work on a nice day and don’t want to subject my colleagues to me standing around in my underwear getting changed.

So overpants with protection and stuff that are easy to put on and off over regular jeans and ideally some hiking boots that I can keep on. And indeed not too warm so not lined. And not too pricey for a side project.

Things like this exist, but they are hard to find.

 

[RickSkye]

Ok, understand now.
Was going to suggest of road armour things but, probably like you, can't find ones with zip down side.

 

[RickSkye]

Texpeed on eBay.co.uk

 

[RickSkye]

Rev'it commuter over pants, the long zip is in inside of leg, but they say, designed to take off over boots.

 

[RickSkye]

Richa concept 3 trousers

 

[Rubberchicken]

Huh, I hadn't heard of Texpeed before. Looks interesting, and they're cheap too.

The Richa ones I've tried. Their sizing is fucked up and it didn't work in other ways.
There's a few different Revit ones it turns out. I tried the Berlin. The Commuter seems to be an old model? Can't find it anywhere around here. And I was looking at the Axis 3.

Turns out there are a few with long zips, but somehow my Google Fu didn't want to find them.

 

[RickSkye]

Did you decide or get yet?

 

[Rubberchicken]

One on its way here

Two already sent back.