This new version of the Fuel Sergeant trouser (officially the Sergeant 2), is single layer, and although we are not big believers in chasing the highest AAA ratings just for the sake of it, the Sergeant pants are accredited to the highest level, without any real compromise in terms of comfort and wearability.

The look, of course, is ‘desert rider’. The pants have very much been created in the off-road aesthetic. And although they are very different to the kind of highly vented and breathable pants that are worn by Paris-Dakar competitors today, they are not dissimilar to the kind of trousers that would have been worn by somebody like the Belgian BMW rider, Gaston Rahier, back in the eighties.