Velcro ruining clothes

[Sweaty_Doughnut]

Last year I have invested over 1k in textile jacket and trousers. With such high investment I expect them to last at least 5 years with occasional riding. However, I noticed that velcro is completely ruining my clothes.

For example, I wear kidney warmer which has velcro on it, this velcro is sticking to the thermal liner that is inside the jacket and slowly slowly damaging it. Then I have velcro at the bottom part of the trousers,which when wearing on or off sometimes touches the socks and it ruined more than 2 pairs so far.Same happens with the upper part of the jacket, there is a velcro that is damaging the neck warmer. There are also gloves that have a velcro on them and when I use the inner glove it's impossible to completely avoid it while trying to put a hand in.

Since motorcycle clothes is so expensive this is not a small damage to have to replace everything so often. Why manufacturers don't use different technology. Do you guys experience the same issues?

[Andy_Pagin]

Velcro on my jacket shredded the right sleeve, in the end I sowed a big leather patch over it.
https://i.imgur.com/Bk9tmKK.jpg
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[Sweaty_Doughnut]

So I'm not the only one. I wouldn't be surprised if manufacturers were doing it on purpose to shorten the life of the clothes.

[kgm]

Biggest problem ive had with Velcro is that the soft bit wears and loses its stick within a year..really annoying on the RST pro stuff.

I have some Halvaarsons stuff coming soon which uses magnets instead. Not convinced by that either but will see what it's like.