Sorry, not correct I'm afraid.
As I mentioned before, I have a friend who is based at the AStars H/O in Italy and he sent me out a pair of SP3's. Guess where they are made - VIETNAM

Makes you wonder..................
Just bears out what was said about cost of manufacture......
And I'd buy a pair of those "knockoffs" if they made them in XXXL.
If you still have the packaging those gloves came in I would bet they were posted from Vietnam, which would probably make them genuine AStars. Maybe without the logos but what the hell, if you're buying them to be seen in expensive gloves.......................hmmmmmm

 

My friend picked up the same gloves in black, used them all last summer and they are still holding up pretty well even after he crash tested them.

 

this is the kind of feedback love to see riht here thanks snwbrd

and shadow thanks for the statement about slug. I have no problems with everyone having a opinion. But when he came into the thread posting a opinion that was as rude as it was. It seemed to me all he was looking to do was start some drama or a fight. Which I feel is unessesary. Esp. Woth all the already existing drama in here lately. I just didn't want five pages of usless fighting is all.....

 

As soon as the "name calling " starts, send me a PM.
It's unnecessary as has been said.
Differences of opinion are fine, with the caveat as stated above.
Everyday life has more than enough drama without having it here, too.

 

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THIS THREAD WAS DEAD... MUAHAHAHAHAH

Buddy who bought those gloves unfortunenly crashed this weekend doing 50 he was gettin onto a off ramp and hit some gravel... he had full gear on.... including the gloves.... he said they did AWESOME...

Only thing that got mess up was there are some nice scratches on the knuckle protectors... he said the leather held up 100%

thought u guys might like to hear this

 

ps buddy is fine just walked away with a quite scraped up knee

 

Darn tour guides, can't believe anything they say. As I look back at it though, everything I saw being made there looked like custom items (like someone else said). So the good stuff is there, the consumer stuff elsewhere.

 

I heard that as well, that A* had their race equipment made at one location, while consumer equipment was made wherever.
I picked up a great deal from a local vendor on SP2's and they're made in vietnam. Another person on the 600rr forums has a pair of SP2's made in china, and a pair of SP1's that were made in vietnam.
Now I kind of wish I looked at their one piece race suits at the store to see if it said Italy or something. That'd be interesting.