Bering Antartica GTX pants in grey

All too often, these days, we find that the trousers that go with an adventure jacket are not wide enough to go over an adventure boot; sometimes they're barely wide enough to go over a touring boot, but that shouldn't be a problem with these pants. They are pretty wide in the lower leg, and can be cinched around the boot with Velcro strips to stop them flapping.

But there is, in our view, a problem with the Antartica pant, as indeed there is with every Bering pant. It comes in just one leg length which, in our experience, means that they will only work on about 50% of motorcyclists. Now, they do come with a facility to shorten the leg length, by folding the hem, and attaching it with Velcro to the inside of the leg. Frankly, it's a bit Heath Robinson; it just doesn't seem right; and what the fold-up system doesn't take into account is the fact that with a shorter leg length, the armour pocket should also be higher. Obviously you don't get this when you just shorten the hem. Which is why most technical brands offer three leg lengths.