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Leatt has announced its new 2025 MTB range, introducing Trail and Enduro lines for women, and feature-packed Gravity jerseys and pants for men – developed alongside Bernard Kerr and the Pivot Factory Racing team.
Further standouts in the collection include the Ride Kit 1.0: an affordable jersey-pants combo.
In keeping with Leatt’s legacy in developing protection gear, the brand is introducing three new knee pads, and an all-new, maximum ventilated protection technology called FlexMesh/Pro.
This lightweight, hard shell construction is included in several upper body protection kits.
Leatt’s new Women Trail jerseys are made from a Bluesign approved fabric called IceYarn Knit, a quick-drying material.
The casual T-shirts and long sleeves have subtle Leatt branding, logos hardly visible apart from the small reflective branding at the back bottom hem.
Women Trail shorts and pants include detachable chamois-liners, and have a lightweight, flexible fit. The stretch of the waist and back panels ensure that the shorts or pants are comfortable straight away.
As part of the launch, Leatt claims to have created “the” Enduro pants and shorts for women, with a flexible and supportive waist construction being combined with a three-layer waterproof and taped seat liner.
The overall four-way flex construction has an additional “DeFlextion” reinforcement in the seat area and knee section, making it comfortable and durable.
Storage comes in the form of five zippered pockets, one of which is mesh.
Like the Trail range, the long and short sleeve jerseys are made from IceYarn fabric.
The prints and colorways are simple and understated, and the finish is soft for sensitive skin. Both jerseys come with laser cut ventilation and an integrated goggle wiper.
For the men, the 5.0 Gravity models are the result of Leatt’s R&D knowledge plus the experience of Pivot Factory Racing.
The 5.0 jersey uses state of the art fabric construction technologies – the sleeves are made from a combination of CoWeave and DeFlextion materials.
Using a custom programmed 3D-knit, it has seamless transitions from ventilation areas into reinforcement areas.
The sleeves have a tight fit, ideal for aerodynamics, while the torso section is looser to maximise freedom of movement.
The 5.0 Gravity pants also feature a CoWeave and DeFlextion seamless construction in the lower leg. The upper leg is made from a flexible, lightweight 4-way stretch fabric, while the seat area is enhanced with a bonded, waterproof liner.
For a perfect fit around the waist, Leatt uses a slimline, lightweight, motocross inspired Hypalon belt construction.
The Ride Kit 1.0 shares the fit of the high-end 5.0 Gravity kit, but makes use of more “classic” fabrics and seam stitched construction.
The chosen material is still Bluesign approved, flexible, breathable and fast drying, albeit with less zippers and pockets, a simple moto buckle waist closure, but still some laser-cut vent holes and goggle viper included.
Leatt’s best-selling pads have been around for eight years now.
The latest evolution of the 5.0 features a more ventilated, ergonomic 3DF pad, with a slightly lower profile.
It is constructed with DeFlextion fabric, keeping it robust, but still light and flexible.
The main sleeve construction has also been ergonomically improved. The knee pad comes in three versions: a full-sleeve knee pad, a FastFit open construction knee pad, and a knee-shin pad combo.
Leatt’s 2025 MTB range offers six new upper body protectors, including chest and backs only.
The biggest change has been made to the damping material and its construction, with the introduction of FlexMesh (single density) and FlexMesh Pro (dual density) padding, a 3D mesh construction.
Traditional damping material is heavy and bulky, and has small ventilation holes.
Conversely, FlexMesh holes are bigger than the damping material itself, maximising ventilation (Leatt claims plus 50%) and bringing the weight down by 11%. Flex joints allow for 3D flexing and a comfortable fit.
The hard shells covering the FlexMesh pads are also fully vented, and are available in black and white colour options.
Leatt is now exclusively distributed in the UK and Ireland by ZyroFisher.
Products will be available in the UK and Ireland from spring 2025, with pre-orders being taken now.
For more information, contact a local ZyroFisher account manager or visit: zyrofisher.co.uk/b2b
