Welcome to our detailed breakdown of the new REV'IT! Commuter Overpants available at RevZilla.com.
I'm gonna lead this off by saying I'm a huge fan of the direction that REV'IT! went with the new Commuter Overpant. North of $300. They didn't spare any expense, and they've done one of the most bomb-proof overpants with a great look, great style, great protection scheme, then we've seen previously from anyone. If we look at it at a glance, you can see the style. I have it here on Hi-Viz Brian. It's blacked-outs and overpant.Two to three season cold weather. There's no venting here. It's not gonna flow air. Keep that in mind. So fall, winter, spring is going to be my recommendation. But what's nice about it is using 500D and 1000D in the knee to really beef up the exterior. What's also a really welcomed addition is using hydratex, which is their waterproof, breathable, laminate material for their layer, the membrane, and they're laminating it to the outer shell. So again, it's one layer, just like the way Gore-Tex would work. It's a single outer shell that now has multiple layers, that has it sandwiched together with that waterproof breathability baked in.
So again, it just has a nice, clean line to it. Has a clean feel. It's gonna fit as an overpant, remember, on top of your motorcycle or over top of your pants. If you're wearing a pair of jeans to work, that would be the way you would rock this. The other thing that I absolutely love about this part of the new REV'IT! Collection, and knowing they're coming at it from a premium place is they're using the new Seeflex armor. Now this is the Seeflex armor. This is the knee. It's fully adjustable. This is CE level 2. Temperature stable. It's going to cover the new European CE standard for level 2 for limbs. So knees, elbows, shoulders now have that level 2 distinction. They're absolutely including it. Notice, it's ventilated. It's fully encompassing. Again, it's shock absorbing. It's going to absorb energy, and that's a knee and a shin. It's also going to come with Seesoft in the hips. So again, you're having CE level 1 included at the hips, CE level 2 Seeflex included in the knee. Again, rounding out the full assortment, and when I get to it in a second, you're gonna see there's a lot of other creature comforts that make this a rock-solid, premium over pant.
It comes in Short and Tall sizes, which changes the inseam length. So Small, Medium, Large, X-large, coming in Short, coming in Tall, coming in Regular. Again, you have the ability to really fine-tune it. And you have the adjustability in the knees to make sure that armor stays in the right place. But keep in mind, you're buying it as an overpant. So when you use the size chart, buy your size based on your normal sizing, and you're gonna have plenty of room and adjustability to wear it over top of a pair of jeans or whatever pant you're wearing underneath it. You're also gonna see here, when you come in toward the top that they have that slide, that adjustability for sizing that's baked into the waist of the pant itself. So again, you don't have to fiddle with anything externally. You don't have to fiddle with an extra belt or belt loops. You have that adjustability baked in. I'm a huge fan of the degree of complexity it creates when you design a line over that range and the amount of sizes you have to produce. But again, going premium, you've got to get it spot on. This is for a hard-core commuter that wants the best from a fit, protection and weatherproof standpoint.
Now diving back into the pant itself, remember, we talked about 500D main construction, 1000D in your impact areas, in the knees. Some of the other features going on here at the front. Notice, waterproof cargo pocket on the outside. Notice how high that fold comes up. That's gonna fold over. Spring-loaded snap. Nice bar tacking here. Again, premium in its design. Looking at the reflectivity that's baked in. That's 3M Scotchlite. Again, giving that highest degree of detail. Hi-Viz Brian, undo the YKK slide lock at the waist. Notice that that is a slide and a snap together. This is the proprietary YKK slide lock. It's snaps have a tendency to pop off. Those normal slides can come undone on their own guide. There's a positive snap there at the end. Keep that in mind. There's also a gator behind the fly. That's gonna keep things in place, allow you to really, depending on how you're built, have the area to bulge a little bit there. But again, it's a positive locking slide mechanism, which is the best of what we've seen out there. Notice these big beefy, YKK Vislon zippers going 360 degrees all the way around the back. There's also going to be a short connection there as well. I talked about CE level 1 hip armor that's baked in.
The other thing that makes this a wonderful overpant is the fact that the height of these zippers, huge meaty zippers that go all the way up. Notice how high that went, exposing his jean underneath. That's going to eliminate the need for you to take your boots off or your shoes off when you're getting in and out of this pant. And notice the zipper they're using; big, beefy, YKK Vislon zipper. Notice the interior with the tape scene, with the laminated hydratex material. That is a huge investment on their part from a design standpoint to get that zipper, and work its way on the inside all the way up. They've done that. They've added the usability factor for what I have surmised is the most premium overpant we've seen from anyone.
We talked about the pocket along the side. No extra surprises here. Coming down from the side, you're gonna see how far that cinch at the top goes all the way back. We talked about the armor and then working your way down REV'IT! engineered skin all the way down along the side. You do have a cinch. It's a basic cinch with velcro down along the bottom of the shoe. You should be able to work that way in, or down along the bottom of the boot there, depending on how you need to tune it. Clean line across the back. No surprises here. Again, you're getting that 500D material all the way down. Notice the short connection zip-up along the top, and it is a higher than average waist there up along the back. So giving you that support. It's gonna wick sweat away. It's going to have that nice comfortable band or that comfortable waistline that goes all the way around. Come down along the back here again. No frills here. It's a straight leg design. But you have plenty of room to go over your jeans and over a big, beefy pair of boots that you might be commuting in.
So remember, the Commuter Overpant has the laminated material with the hydratex. It's waterproof and breathable. Remember you also have that Seeflex CE level 2 armor, and it's beefing up all of the components from a protection, from a waterproofing, as well as from a functional set. You can tell I am a big fan. But the next step in your journey is to click the info button.
