Spidi started out making racing gloves in 1977, supplying riders like Henry Roberts who won the championship wearing Spade’s racing gloves.

Even today, Spidi motorcycle gloves are the best money can buy in our view.

For road riding there are styles like the T-Road glove, the Class glove, the Motorrad H2out glove, the Urban glove, the Logick glove, the ever popular Spidi Summer glove and the incredibly waterproof NK3 glove.

If you’re looking for something a bit racier, the Race Vent Coupé and Carbo Track glove or Spidi’s famous Carbo 3.

Spidi produces a huge range of jackets for motorcycling but we are particular fond of their simply gorgeous leather jackets.

The Supreme leather jacket is pure café-racer as is the Heritage leather jacket

The Spidi One leather jacket comes in tan and black, but perhaps the most popular of all of Spidi’s leather jackets is the JK leather jacket.

Their Dirty Seven leather jacket is made from Buffalo and looks just like an American WWII A2 jacket.

For aspiring racers, our favourite Spidi jacket is the RR leather jacket that can also be matched to RR Pro leather trousers.

For a more casual look Spidi make a range of denim riding jeans. The Furious denim pant has features you normally find only on racing leathers, but the most protective jeans made by Spidi are the JK jeans, sometimes known as the J&J Pro jeans.

Of course, Spidi can also offer leather trousers like the Naked leather trouser that are styled like a denim jean.

Adventure riders are well catered for by Spidi with suits like the Ergo 365 Pro Expedition riding Jacket and the matching Ego pro trousers.

Spidi is particularly renowned for its safety gear and protectors.

Their Venture airbag jacket is, in our view, but far the best, most useable, most reliable and most affordable airbag jacket in the world. The save system is also incorporated into their DPS Neck Airbag system.

Spidi’s Back and Chest Defender is a brilliant, easy to wear protector set that provides protection for the chest and the back.

And the H1 Life Vest gives the benefits of the Hi-Vis jacket with a built in back protector.

If you want to upgrade to Level 2 CE protection, you should take a look at Spidi’s Back Warrior Evo.

Surprisingly for an Italian company, Spidi makes wonderful waterproofs. Testament perhaps to the fact that Italians don’t like to get wet.

The Spidi Flux one-piece rain suit comes in Hi-Vis yellow with reflective stripes for visibility, but if you want two-piece suit we recommend Spidi’s Rain jacket and Rain Salopettes in black or yellow.

We could go on to praise Spidi’s Airstop underwear or the Thermo sock. The Spidi range is probably the largest out there.

But we’ll end with Spidi’s Moto GP style Track Wind Pro suit, worn by riders like Cal Crutchlow. And if it starts to rain there’s nothing better to keep you dry than Spidi’s WWR Evo rain jacket.