Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Arlen Ness or Dainese or Alpinestars???

[twpd]

Why do people buy this off-the-peg rubbish? For a similar price you can get a tailor-made suit from Crowtree that is vastly superior in build-quality and protection.

I use Crowtree for race & road. I will never buy anything else. I've been using them since 1991. My current race suit has withstood 3 100+mph spills on the track basically unscathed.

Crowtree's service and support is second to none and in the unlikely event that you damage your suit seriously they will repair it for a pittance. They know their customers by name, the suits are beautifully constructed by caring hands, they take their reputation seriously and will never let you down. You won't get that service or protection from Dainese, Alpinstars or whatever.

[TP]

I'm another MTM convert, I like my hideout suit and they've been really good with after-sales support.

They'll do a leather MTM suit, reasonably plain, quite cheap. Even cheaper if you had your ACU license Andy give em a call ...

[couchcommando]

Originally Posted by twpd

Why do people buy this off-the-peg rubbish? For a similar price you can get a tailor-made suit from Crowtree that is vastly superior in build-quality and protection.

I use Crowtree for race & road. I will never buy anything else. I've been using them since 1991. My current race suit has withstood 3 100+mph spills on the track basically unscathed.

Crowtree's service and support is second to none and in the unlikely event that you damage your suit seriously they will repair it for a pittance. They know their customers by name, the suits are beautifully constructed by caring hands, they take their reputation seriously and will never let you down. You won't get that service or protection from Dainese, Alpinstars or whatever.

I agree my Scott MTM was £600 and has performed brilliantly. I don't understand spending £1k upwards on non MTM stuff. However these non MTM suits do look better and some value looking good quite high, especially if they never crash

[twpd]

Never crash???? Either they don't try hard enough or are riding gods......ummmm...or we're ****!

Yep...pretty much any mtm suit is leagues ahead whereas OTP is prolly made in Pakistan or India.

[andyb]

Arlen ness........made in hong kong! same as the berik.........

[fil2]

crashed at coppice in Berick...they held together very well indeed