Motorcycle Waterproofing Explained: The One Spec With No Standard Behind It
Abrasion has EN 17092. Impact has EN 1621. Gloves have EN 13594. Waterproofing has nothing — no CE standard, no certifying body, no comparable number. Here is how to read a waterproof claim anyway.
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Waterproofing is the only major specification on a piece of motorcycle gear with no standard, no certifying body and no comparable number behind it. Abrasion, impact and tear resistance have EN 17092 and its AAA, AA, A, B and C garment classes. Armor has the EN 1621 family with its Level 1 and Level 2 thresholds. Gloves have EN 13594. Boots have EN 13634. Every one of those is a laboratory test with a published result you can compare across brands. Rain performance has none of that. When a jacket says “waterproof”, that is the company that made it telling you about its own product.
That is not a scandal and it is not a reason to distrust the whole category — good waterproof gear is genuinely waterproof. It is a reason to read the claim differently from the way you read a garment class. This page is about turning the word “waterproof” into something you can actually compare between two jackets, using only what each maker publishes about its own gear. Every quoted phrase below was read from the source named at the bottom of this page on a dated visit. We have not stood in the rain in any of it.
If what you want is the shopping list rather than the explanation, our rain gear guide is organized around the four places water actually gets in, and the waterproof jacket ranking is the roundup. This page is the pillar underneath both: what the specs mean.
The three kinds of waterproof claim, and why they do not compare
Read enough product pages and the claims sort themselves into three types. They look interchangeable on a listing and they are telling you three completely different things.
| Type of claim | What the maker publishes | What you can do with it |
|---|---|---|
| A licensed membrane with a guarantee | KLIM publishes “GORE-TEX PERFORMANCE SHELL” and “GUARANTEED TO KEEP YOU DRY” for the Carlsbad and Latitude jackets, and “GORE-TEX 3-LAYER PRO SHELL” for the Badlands Pro pant. No millimeter figure anywhere | Lean on the third party. Gore licenses the membrane and tests finished garments, and the promise comes from Gore rather than from the brand selling you the jacket |
| An in-house membrane with a number | Alpinestars publishes “Drystar”, “5000mm” and “Fixed membrane” for the Andes V3 Drystar pants, and “5000mm waterproof protection” plus “5000g/m2” breathability for the Andes V3 Drystar glove | Compare within the brand. A 5000mm Drystar garment against another Drystar garment is a real comparison. Against a GORE-TEX garment with no published figure, it is not |
| A named technology with neither | FLY Racing publishes “Hydraguard - Weatherproof technology” with “Windproof, waterproof, breathable” beneath it for the Terra Trek pant. Tourmaster publishes an “Aqua-Barrier breathable waterproof zip-out liner” for the Ridgecrest and an “Aqua-barrier waterproof, breathable membrane” for the Super-Tour gloves | Take it at face value and judge the construction instead. There is no number and no external guarantee, so the useful questions are where the membrane sits and whether the seams are sealed |
The asymmetry inside a single brand is the part worth sitting with. Alpinestars publishes 5000mm for the Andes V3 Drystar pants and for the Andes V3 Drystar glove — and publishes no membrane figure at all for the SMX-Z Drystar glove, whose spec sheet says only “Waterproof Drystar performance technology membrane for breathable all-weather protection”. Same company, same membrane family, two levels of disclosure. So the absence of a number does not mean the garment is worse. It means nobody is obliged to print one, and most of the time nobody does.
The construction question, which matters more than the number
Three designs show up repeatedly, all of them keep rain off your skin, and they behave completely differently once the rain has been going for a few hours.
1. Laminate — the membrane is bonded to the outer shell
KLIM’s GORE-TEX pieces are built this way, which is what “PERFORMANCE SHELL” and “3-LAYER PRO SHELL” are describing. The membrane is laminated to the back of the outer fabric, so the outer fabric cannot absorb water. A laminate weighs the same wet as it does dry, and that is the whole argument for it. The same construction appears on gloves: KLIM publishes “GORE-TEX + GORE GRIP” for the Adventure GTX Short, where GORE GRIP laminates the membrane outward so the glove can stay thin and still not soak.
2. Fixed membrane — permanently inside, not bonded out
Alpinestars publishes exactly this phrase for the Andes V3 Drystar pants: “Fixed membrane”. The waterproof layer is sewn in and stays there, so there is nothing to forget and nothing to carry, but the outer shell is free to wet out in front of it. In sustained rain you end up dry inside a garment that is heavier and colder than it was an hour ago, because wet fabric conducts heat away far faster than dry fabric does.
3. Drop liner or zip-out — a separate layer you fit
Tourmaster publishes an “Aqua-Barrier breathable waterproof zip-out liner” for the Ridgecrest pants. Alpinestars publishes a “Liner to drop system” for the Bogota’ Pro pants with a membrane “that can be worn either inside or on top of the pants”. This is the most versatile design and the one with a human failure mode: it only works if you stop and fit it, which means noticing the weather before it arrives rather than after. The upside is real, though — in hot dry weather you are wearing a vented garment with no membrane in it at all, which no laminate can offer you.
One more case, because a premium price is not a waterproofing claim. KLIM’s Baja S4 pant is a CE AA garment certified to EN 17092-3 at a premium price with no membrane and no liner listed anywhere— KLIM states it is “DESIGNED TO KIT WITH ENDURO S4 PANT FOR COOL/WET WEATHER”. It is a hot-weather pant meant to be layered. If you buy it expecting rain protection you have bought the wrong garment, and the price will not have warned you.
Breathability is the spec that decides whether you wear it
A plastic bag is perfectly waterproof. The reason motorcycle gear is not made of plastic bags is that your body produces moisture and the garment has to let it out, which is what a membrane does that a coated fabric does not.
Breathability gets published even less often than waterproofing. In everything we track, exactly one published figure exists: “5000g/m2” for the Alpinestars Andes V3 Drystar glove. That is a moisture vapor transmission rate — grams of water vapor passing a square meter of fabric in a day — and higher is better. One figure, across every jacket, pant, glove and boot in the registry.
So in practice you judge breathability by proxy, and the honest proxies are the vents. KLIM publishes “2 Thigh intake vents” and “2 Thigh exhaust vents” on the Carlsbad and Latitude pants and adds “2 Lower leg side vents” on the Badlands Pro. The Carlsbad jacket publishes two chest vents, two double-headed forearm vents and two offset back exhaust vents. Intake and exhaust vents in pairs are the sign of a garment designed to move air through rather than just open up, and on a waterproof garment that airflow is doing the work the membrane cannot do fast enough on a hot day.
Seams, and the cheap check nobody runs
Every stitch is a hole through the membrane. A garment cut from perfectly waterproof fabric leaks along its seams unless those seams are taped or welded, which is a manufacturing step with a cost attached.
Makers that do it tend to say so, and makers that do not tend to say nothing, which makes the absence informative. FLY Racing publishes “600D polyester outer shell with fully taped seams” for the Terra Trek pant. Most of the waterproof garments we track do not mention seam sealing either way. That is not proof a garment leaks — it may simply not be in the bullet list — but if you are choosing between two similar pants and one of them publishes taped seams, that is a real, concrete difference and it costs you nothing to prefer it.
What none of them publishes
- A test standard. Not one maker in our registry names the method behind its waterproofing or breathability figure. Hydrostatic head and vapor transmission are measured by recognized laboratory methods, and nobody here says which one they used, so two numbers from two brands are not necessarily measuring the same thing.
- A durability claim for the water repellent finish. The outer treatment that makes rain bead up is the part that wears out first, and no maker publishes how long it lasts or how many washes it survives.
- Any waterproofing figure for most garments. One millimeter rating and one breathability rating exist across everything we track, both of them Alpinestars Andes V3 Drystar items. Everything else is a brand name or an adjective.
- Whether “weatherproof” means waterproof. FLY Racing calls its technology “Hydraguard - Weatherproof technology” and then lists “Windproof, waterproof, breathable” underneath. Those are two different words in the same spec block and no definition is given for either.
Gear that shows each approach
These are not a ranking. They are one example of each construction, all checked live for availability on 5 November 2026 and all drawn from the rankings they link to, so you can see what each kind of claim looks like attached to a real garment.
Licensed laminate with an external guarantee
KLIM Carlsbad
CE AA EN 17092-3 garment; D3O CE Level 2 elbow, shoulder and back armor includedThe reference hard-use adventure jacket: a GORE-TEX shell with huge vents that actually open, built for riders who spend real days off pavement. Expensive, and the one ADV riders keep replacing with the same jacket.
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KLIM publishes “GORE-TEX PERFORMANCE SHELL” and “GUARANTEED TO KEEP YOU DRY” for this jacket, and no millimeter figure. It is also one of only two jackets we track that publishes an EN 17092 garment class — CE AA, certified to EN 17092-3 — which is the useful contrast with everything above: the abrasion claim is certified by a standard and the waterproofing claim is backed by a brand promise, on the same garment, in the same spec list.
In-house membrane, mid price
Alpinestars Andes V3 Drystar
The adventure-touring value benchmark: a Drystar waterproof membrane, a removable thermal liner and CE armor at shoulders and elbows, for roughly a quarter of what the GORE-TEX flagships cost.
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The Drystar route at roughly a quarter of the GORE-TEX flagship money, with a removable thermal liner. Be precise about what is published here: Alpinestars prints “5000mm” for the Andes V3 Drystar pants and the Andes V3 Drystar gloveon its own site, and our entry for this jacket was built from the retail listing, which carries no figure. We are not going to move the pants’ number onto the jacket. The membrane family is the same; the published evidence is not.
Laminated shell, no brand, no number
Tourmaster Adventure Lite Pants
CE A EN 17092-4 garment; Armanox CE Level 1 hip and knee armorThe cheapest pant on this page that publishes a garment class — CE-certified A to EN 17092-4 — and it ships with Armanox CE Level 1 armor at both the hip and the knee, on a laminated 420D waterproof shell rather than a drop liner. That is a specification most pants at twice the price do not match line for line, and the reason a mid-price Tourmaster is ranked above better-known names.
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Tourmaster describes a “waterproof, breathable 420D laminated polyester shell” with no membrane brand and no figure, and in the same spec list publishes “CE-certified A EN 17092-4” plus Armanox CE Level 1 hip and knee armor. That is the pattern this whole page is about in one product: the protection claims are certified and countable, the rain claim is a sentence.
Hands, which leak first
Alpinestars SMX-Z Drystar
CE EN 13594:2015 Level 1 KPThe cheapest glove we found that publishes both halves of the job: a CE EN 13594 2015 Level 1 KP certification and a named waterproof membrane. Full-grain goat leather at the palm and impact zones, a nylon hard knuckle, a hook-and-loop wrist closure and touchscreen index and thumb. For all-day mixed-weather touring this is the sane default, and Alpinestars' own more expensive adventure glove cannot match it on paper.
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The cheapest glove we track that publishes both a real certification — CE EN 13594:2015, Level 1 KP — and a named membrane. It is also the glove whose Drystar spec carries no millimeter figure while its pricier Andes V3 stablemate does, which is the disclosure asymmetry above in a single brand. If you want to see what the GORE-TEX alternative buys at nearly twice the money, that is the subject of our head-to-head against the KLIM Adventure GTX Short.
Two garments we would have included and did not, both on live stock rather than on merit: the Alpinestars Andes V3 Drystar pants returned “Currently unavailable” on the day we wrote this — which is a shame, because they are the single garment in the registry that publishes both “5000mm” and “Fixed membrane” — and the Tourmaster Ridgecrest pants, the clearest zip-out liner example, returned “Only 3 left in stock”. Both are still cited above for what their makers publish, because a published specification does not stop being true when a size sells out. Neither is featured with a buy card, because we do not put a recommendation in front of you that you cannot act on.
The short version
If you are standing in front of two waterproof jackets and you want the decision in four lines:
- Buy on construction, not on the adjective. A laminate beats a fixed membrane beats a zip-out liner for sustained rain, in that order, and costs in that order too.
- Treat a published millimeter figure as a bonus, not a score. It is comparable within a brand and not between brands, because nobody names the test.
- Prefer the garment that mentions taped seams and paired vents. Both are concrete, both are cheap for a maker to state, and a maker that states them has thought about the problem.
- Spend the last of the budget on closures, not fabric. The collar, cuffs, waist and boot tops are where water gets in, and the best membrane in the world does not close a gap at your wrist. Our rain gear guide is built around exactly those four leaks.
And buy the abrasion protection first. Waterproofing makes a wet ride bearable; a garment class is what is doing something for you in a crash, and only two of the jackets we track publish one. If a purchase forces you to choose, choose the certified one and carry a cheap set of waterproof overlays in the tail pack.
How to read our safety notes. We have not crash-tested any of this gear — nobody honestly can on a review budget. Every helmet and armor pick names the certification the maker publishes (DOT, ECE 22.06, SNELL, or a CE level), which we read from the listing on a dated visit. Certification is the floor, not a guarantee; fit and condition matter as much as the sticker. What the standards actually mean.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a CE standard for waterproof motorcycle gear?
No, and that is the single most useful thing to know about the spec. Motorcycle clothing has a European standard for abrasion, impact and tear resistance — EN 17092, which produces the AAA, AA, A, B and C garment classes — and separate standards for armor (EN 1621), gloves (EN 13594) and boots (EN 13634). None of them tests waterproofness. There is no certifying body that grades a jacket's rain performance, no required label, and no number you can compare between two brands the way you can compare a garment class. Every waterproof claim on a motorcycle listing is the manufacturer's own claim about its own product.
What does 5000mm waterproof mean?
It is a hydrostatic head figure: the height of a column of water the fabric resisted before water came through, measured in millimeters. Higher is more resistant. Alpinestars publishes '5000mm' for its Andes V3 Drystar pants and '5000mm waterproof protection' plus '5000g/m2' breathability for the Andes V3 Drystar glove. The catch is what sits around the number — no maker in this category names the test method it used, and most publish no figure at all, so a millimeter rating tells you something real about one garment and almost nothing about how it compares to a garment that publishes nothing. Treat it as a maker being more forthcoming than its competitors rather than as a score.
Is GORE-TEX worth the money on motorcycle gear?
GORE-TEX buys you two things that are not the same as a better number. The first is that Gore licenses its membrane and tests the finished garment rather than selling fabric by the roll, and KLIM's GORE-TEX pieces carry Gore's 'GUARANTEED TO KEEP YOU DRY' promise — an external warranty from a third party, which no in-house membrane gives you. The second, on most GORE-TEX motorcycle gear, is that the membrane is laminated to the outer shell rather than hanging inside it, so the outer fabric cannot soak up water and get heavy. What GORE-TEX does not give you is a published millimeter rating: Gore publishes a guarantee instead of a number, which is the opposite trade to Alpinestars' Drystar.
What is the difference between a laminate and a drop liner?
Where the membrane lives. In a laminate the membrane is bonded to the back of the outer fabric, so rain cannot get into the shell at all — the garment stays the same weight wet as dry. In a drop-liner or zip-out design the membrane is a separate inner layer, so the outer shell soaks through first and you stay dry inside a jacket that is now heavy, cold against the wind and slow to dry. Both are genuinely waterproof in the sense that matters at hour one. At hour four of real rain they are not the same garment, and that difference is most of what a laminate costs extra for. A third variant is a fixed membrane permanently sewn inside, which Alpinestars publishes for the Andes V3 Drystar pants.
Do waterproof motorcycle jackets stop being waterproof?
The membrane rarely fails first. What usually fails is the durable water repellent finish on the outer fabric, which makes rain bead up and roll off, and which wears away with use, dirt and body oils. When it goes, the outer shell wets out and the garment feels like it is leaking when the membrane is still working perfectly — you are cold and heavy rather than wet. The fix is washing the garment properly and reproofing it with a wash-in or spray-on treatment, which is cheap and genuinely restores the behavior. Our gear washing guide covers how to do it without damaging the laminate.
Are taped seams important on motorcycle gear?
Yes, and they are the cheapest thing on this page to check. A sewing needle makes a hole through the membrane every stitch, so a garment built from perfectly waterproof fabric can leak along every seam. Taped or welded seams seal those holes. Makers that have done the work generally say so — FLY Racing publishes 'fully taped seams' for the Terra Trek pants, for example — and makers that have not generally say nothing, so an absent mention is worth treating as an absent feature rather than an oversight in the copywriting.
Can a jacket be waterproof without a membrane?
It can be sold that way, and some are. Tourmaster describes the Adventure Lite pants as 'Constructed from a waterproof, breathable 420D laminated polyester shell' — a laminated shell with no membrane brand and no figure attached. That is not dishonest and the garment may well work; it just leaves you with nothing to compare. The opposite case is worth knowing too: KLIM's Baja S4 pant is a premium CE AA garment with no membrane or liner listed at all, because it is a hot-weather pant designed to be layered under a waterproof overshell. A premium price does not imply waterproofing.
Where does water actually get into motorcycle gear?
Almost never through the fabric, and almost always through an opening. The collar lets water run down your chest, the cuffs let it up your forearms when you reach for the bars, the waist and lower back let it in where the jacket rides up off the seat, and the boot tops collect everything that runs down your legs. That is why a cheap set of waterproof overlays worn over good gear often beats an expensive membrane worn with an open collar, and it is why our rain gear guide is organized around the four leaks rather than around fabric. The membrane is the easy half of the problem.
Sources
- KLIM — Carlsbad Jacket — KLIM's published Carlsbad Jacket specification: "GORE-TEX PERFORMANCE SHELL", "GUARANTEED TO KEEP YOU DRY", "CE AA RATING CERTIFIED TO EN 17092-3", "630D CORDURA TWISTED YARN OVERLAYS ON SHOULDERS, ELBOWS", "FPL400 MAIN CHASSIS FABRIC SAME AS BADLANDS PRO", "D3O CE LEVEL 2 LP2 PRO ELBOW/SHOULDER ARMOR INCLUDED", "D3O CE LEVEL 2 BACK PAD INCLUDED", "ADJUSTABLE ARMOR PAD POCKETS", "REMOVABLE ARMOR PADS", "KIDNEY BELT COMPATIBLE (SOLD SEPARATELY)", "2 DOUBLE-HEADED FOREARM VENTS", "2 CHEST VENTS", "2 BACK EXHAUST VENTS OFFSET FOR BETTER AIRFLOW", "COLLAR TAB BACK FOR INCREASED AIRFLOW TO UPPER CHEST", "3M SCOTCHLITE C790 CARBON BLACK REFLECTIVE MATERIAL", "DOUBLE-HEADED FRONT ZIPPER", "YKK ZIPPERS". Sizes SM through 3X. No thermal liner is listed (accessed September 18, 2026)
- KLIM — Latitude Jacket — KLIM's published Latitude Jacket specification: "GORE-TEX PERFORMANCE SHELL", "GUARANTEED TO KEEP YOU DRY", "CE AA rating certified to EN 17092-3", "600D Cordura overlays on shoulders", "Perforated goat leather overlays on elbows", "KLIM Rogue CE Level 1 vented elbow & shoulder armor (Level 2 upgrade available)", "KLIM Rogue CE Level 1 vented back pad (Level 2 upgrade available)", "Upgraded action-back shoulders for increased mobility", "Seamless underarm design for comfort & mobility", "Articulated sleeves and cuffs for comfortable interface with gloves", "2 Massive adjustable wrist vents w/ dual zippers", "2 Chest vents", "2 Back exhaust vents", "Collar tab back for increased airflow to upper chest", "Front zipper storm flap for wind/water protection", "1 Concealed document pocket behind backpad". Sizes SM through 4X (accessed September 18, 2026)
- KLIM — Carlsbad Pant — KLIM's published Carlsbad Pant specification: "GORE-TEX PERFORMANCE SHELL", "630D CORDURA twisted yarn overlays in abrasion zones", "Goat leather on inside of knees for grip/protection", "CE AA rating certified to EN 17092-3", "KLIM Rogue CE Level 2 vented hip/adjustable knee armor", "2 Thigh intake vents", "2 Thigh exhaust vents", "Jacket-pant zip connection", "Waterproof fly zipper gusset", "Zipper/snap adjustable cuff". No thermal liner is listed (accessed September 17, 2026)
- KLIM — Badlands Pro Pant — KLIM's published Badlands Pro Pant specification, cited for the pant this page names but does not rank: "GORE-TEX 3-LAYER PRO SHELL", "Custom-engineered variable-density Superfabric on knees", "CE AA rating certified to EN 17092-3", "KLIM Rogue EXP CE Level 2 vented expanded protection hip/knee armor", "2 Thigh intake vents", "2 Thigh exhaust vents", "2 Lower leg side vents", and the sizing note that "Size 30 and down have compact size knee armor, size 32 and up have standard size knee armor" (accessed September 17, 2026)
- Alpinestars — Andes V3 Drystar Pants — Alpinestars' published Andes V3 Drystar Pants specification, in full: "CE-Certified Garment", "A Class", "Direct vent openings", "Drystar", "5000mm", "Waterproof", "Fixed membrane", "Thermal insulation", "Detachable thermal layer", with the description stating "100% waterproofing and high levels of breathability", "added protection in strategic areas" and compatibility with the Andes Drystar Jacket; sizes S-5XL in Regular, Short and Long. No EN standard is named for the garment class and no armor type or EN 1621-1 level is published anywhere on the page (accessed September 17, 2026)
- Alpinestars — Bogota' Pro Drystar 4 Seasons Pants (Regular) — Alpinestars' published Bogota' Pro Drystar 4 Seasons Pants description, read from the maker's own product feed for this handle: "equipped with Level 2 CE Nucleon Flex Pro knee armor and Bio-Flex hip armor", "lightweight micro ripstop and 600D poly-fabric construction", "technical laminated Drystar waterproof liner", "Liner to drop system" with a membrane "that can be worn either inside or on top of the pants", "detachable 100-gram thermal liner", "large direct ventilation panels on the thighs"; sizes S-4XL. Cited for the pant this page names but does not rank: on the date of writing the retailer we link to listed the men's version as "Only 1 left in stock" (Large) or "Usually ships within 8 to 9 days" (2X-Large), the only two sizes the retailer search returned (accessed September 17, 2026)
- Alpinestars — Andes V3 Drystar Glove — Alpinestars' published Andes V3 Drystar glove specs: "Goat leather and textile construction", "Drystar waterproofing: 5000mm waterproof protection", "Breathability: 5000g/m2", "Viscoelastic protective armor on the knuckles", "Reflective panels for improved visibility", "Touchscreen-compatible fingertips", sizes S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL. No CE EN 13594 certification is published anywhere on the page (accessed September 10, 2026)
- Alpinestars — SMX-Z Drystar Glove (published spec sheet via RevZilla) — Alpinestars' published SMX-Z Drystar spec sheet: "CE EN 13594 2015, Level 1 KP safety certification", "Waterproof Drystar performance technology membrane for breathable all-weather protection", "Full grain goat leather palm and impact zones", "Suede side hand reinforcements", "Nylon hard knuckle", "Hook and loop wrist closure", "Touchscreen compatible index finger and thumb", sizes SM-3XL. Read from an authoritative retailer because the alpinestars.com product URL for this model returned 404 on this date (accessed September 10, 2026)
- KLIM — Adventure GTX Short Glove — KLIM's published Adventure GTX Short specs: "CE CERTIFIED TO EN13594:2015, KP LEVEL 1", "GORE-TEX + GORE GRIP", "GOAT LEATHER/STRETCH WOVEN CONSTRUCTION", "SHORT DESIGN FOR UNDER-CUFF USE", "CARBON FIBER KNUCKLE PROTECTOR", "PORON XRD PALM UNDER CARBON FIBER KNUCKLE PROTECTOR", "3D SILICONE FINGER PADS", "CERAMIC PRINT IN SLIDE AREAS", MULT-E-TOUCH functionality, sizes SM-3X. No insulation is listed (accessed September 10, 2026)
- Tourmaster — Adventure Lite Pants — Tourmaster's published Adventure Lite Pants specification: "Constructed from a waterproof, breathable 420D laminated polyester shell", "Armanox CE-certified Level 1 armor at the hips and knees", "CE-certified A EN 17092-4 for abrasion, impact, and tear resistance", "TSGS F27108 ultra-abrasion-resistant knee laminate", "Inner knee leather panels", "Silicone grip inside the waist", "Waterproof zippers at the lower legs", "Strategic 4-way stretch panels". No vents are listed (accessed September 17, 2026)
- Tourmaster — Men's Ridgecrest Pants — Tourmaster's published Ridgecrest Hi-Flow Mesh Adventure Touring Pants specification: "Abrasion-resistant 600D polyester fabric and hi-flow mesh shell", "1000D Honeycomb nylon ripstop reinforced knees and seat", "3-way adjustable knee armor is impact tested and CE certified to EN 1621-1, Level 1", "Aqua-Barrier breathable waterproof zip-out liner", "Removable EVA foam hip pads", "4-Way stretch crotch/inner leg, rear waist gusset, back of knees and lower thigh", "Reflective accents on the upper thigh and lower cuff", "Full-circumference and 8-inch Pant-to-jacket attachment zipper with jacket side included". No garment class is published and the hip pads are not described as certified (accessed September 17, 2026)
- Tourmaster — Super-Tour ADV Waterproof Gloves (published spec sheet via MotorcycleGear.com) — Tourmaster's published Super-Tour Waterproof Adventure spec sheet: "Aqua-barrier waterproof, breathable membrane inside keeps you dry", "Genuine goat leather backhand, palm, and overlays", "3D Molded knuckle protector", "Superfabric overlays on knuckle, fingers and heel", "Dual hook and loop adjustable wrist closure", "Waterproof zippered cuff gusset", "Touchscreen-compatible index finger and thumb", "3M Scotchlite Reflective accents", sizes S-3XL. No CE certification is published; read from an authoritative retailer because the tourmaster.com product URL returned 404 on this date (accessed September 10, 2026)
- FLY Racing — Terra Trek Pants — FLY Racing's published Terra Trek Pants specification: "600D polyester outer shell with fully taped seams", "Hydraguard - Weatherproof technology", "Windproof, waterproof, breathable", "1680D at critical wear areas", "CE Level 1 removable knee armor - conforms to EN 1621-1 standard", "Hip armor pockets - compatible with FLY Barricade CE armor", "Removable thermal liner", "8 inch attachment zipper connects to jacket", "Adjustable knee armor pockets accommodates different heights", "Intake and exhaust vents". No garment class is published and no hip armor is included (accessed September 17, 2026)
- KLIM — Baja S4 Pant — KLIM's published Baja S4 Pant specification: "CE AA RATING CERTIFIED TO EN 17092-3", "D3O CE LEVEL 1 LP1 VENTED ADJUSTABLE KNEE ARMOR", "D3O CE LEVEL 1 LP1 VENTED HIP ARMOR", "REMOVABLE ARMOR PADS", "KARBONITE MICROMESH 4-WAY STRETCH 1000D CORDURA IN STRETCH ZONES", "SUPERFABRIC ON KNEES", "PERFORATED GOAT LEATHER ON INSIDE OF KNEES", "DURABLE 750D CORDURA FABRIC FOR CARGO POCKETS, CUFFS, WAIST", "FULL TIME CHASSIS VENTILATION THROUGH SCHOELLER-DYNATEC MESH PANELS", "DESIGNED TO KIT WITH ENDURO S4 PANT FOR COOL/WET WEATHER". No membrane or liner is listed (accessed September 17, 2026)
Keep reading
Best waterproof motorcycle jackets
The roundup this guide sits under, ranked on the membrane each maker publishes rather than on the word 'waterproof'.
See the jacketsMotorcycle rain gear, head to toe
The companion page: the four places water gets in regardless of membrane, and what to wear or carry against each.
Read the rain guideKLIM Adventure GTX Short vs Alpinestars SMX-Z Drystar
This guide's argument at a single purchase: a licensed GORE-TEX glove against an in-house Drystar one, with the identical certification.
Compare the glovesEN 17092 explained
The standard waterproofing does not have. What AAA, AA and A actually test on a garment, and how few jackets publish a class.
Read the standardBest motorcycle riding pants
Where laminate, fixed membrane and zip-out liner all appear in one ranking, with each maker's own wording quoted.
See the pantsHow to wash motorcycle gear
Reproofing is what restores a jacket that feels like it is leaking when the membrane is fine. This is how to do it safely.
Read the care guide