It's funny, Chaps.

Not chaps like blokes or fellows, Chaps as in the clothing. For some reason when you mention chaps to the uninformed someone will also blurt out "Assless Chaps" and start laughing. At this point you have to look at them like you would look at any idiot and say, "All Chaps are ass-less, if they had an ass they'd be pants."

There is always the rebuttal I heard one year at a bike blessing, Someone said ass-less chaps and the person with him said, "Nothing is Ass-less with you around"

Bikers wear chaps, they keep your legs warm and in light of moderate rain, dry.

Some even wear the shorter versions

Cow and horse folk wear them for the same reasons plus chafe and wear protection.

Those are often leather or denim.

There are those who wear them because if you don't wear much under them you draw attention,

But I think we can all pretty much agree, they are usually worn with denim pants beneath them, and I for one am happy about that, I don't know if I would be all that enthused about stopping somewhere to eat and fuel up, if when we all got off the bikes there was a lot of this sort of view...

It would tend to put me off my lunch.