Team managers
Want to know why the layout takes 48 hours and not two, why the strip is archived, and who closes the box with the rider's name on it.
Rooms 01, 03, 07
Seven rooms · three inspections · one order file
How We Make Motorcycle Apparel: Patterns, Sublimation, Leather Work, Decoration and QC
A walk through seven rooms, in the order your order moves through them. The design room where the layout comes back within 48 hours, the pattern room, the print room where a color profile is saved per team, the cut-and-sew lines, the leather workshop, the decoration room, and a QC lead who reports to nobody on the production floor.
The floor · from the design room endWho reads this page
Who reads this page: team managers, brand product managers, dealers and centres
Four readers who want to know how we make motorcycle apparel between the roster and the box, before they send either.
Brand product managers
Want to see the pattern room and the sample stage before committing 50 pieces per style to a base block they have not touched.
Rooms 02, 04, 05
Dealers and distributors
Want to know who inspects, how many times, and what arrives in the carton besides the garments.
Room 07 and the documents
Karting centres and academies
Want to know how a suit that is washed weekly is built, and how a size is reordered a year later.
Rooms 02, 04 and the reorder pack
The floor plan
How we make motorcycle apparel: the floor plan, seven rooms in order
The motorcycle apparel manufacturing process as one order, seven rooms and one file that travels with it. Each room has its own section below.
01Design roomArtwork placed on the pattern pieces; layout back within 48 hours.
02Pattern roomRiding blocks for the seat, the stand and the tuck; made-to-measure sheets.
03Print roomSaved profile per team; strip against the archive before every run.
04Cut-and-sew linesStart-of-line check on the first piece of each size.
05Leather workshopHide gauging, panel layout, perforation, fitting.
06Decoration roomDigitized once per size; thread against the strip; heat transfer.
07QC and packingThree inspections by an independent lead; photo set before the box is sealed.
Floor fact
How we make motorcycle apparel, in one line: orders move by team, not by fabric. One kit goes through the seven rooms together.
01Design room
Room 01, the design room: the layout back within 48 hours
The layout is not a mock-up; it is the artwork placed on the actual pattern pieces of the garment you ordered
On the pattern pieces, not a template. The design team takes the roster and the artwork and places every element on the pattern pieces of the block that will be cut: the sponsor on the chest panel at the size it will print, the name on the back panel where the seam allows, the number in the field the rules require. That is why it takes up to 48 hours and not an hour. A layout drawn on a flat template looks right and prints wrong; a layout drawn on the pattern pieces prints as it looks.
The document you approve. Changes before approval cost nothing; the table on every line page shows which changes after approval move the schedule and by how much.
What to look for
- Seams drawn through the artwork where they will fall.
- Names and numbers in the actual field; a colorway that names the saved profile.
02Pattern room
Room 02, the pattern room: riding blocks for seat, stand and tuck
A garment that fits standing up rides short in the sleeve and tight across the back; the blocks here are drafted on the bike
Drafted for the position. The motocross jersey and pant block is drafted for the attack position; the enduro pant block for standing and paddling, with brace room built into the knee; the race suit for the tuck, with stretch panels at inner arm, crotch and back; the touring jacket with the arms forward on the bars. Youth and women's blocks are drafted separately, not scaled from the men's.
One suit to one rider; a size run for the rest. For leather race suits, the pattern room works from a measurement sheet. For everything else, it grades a size run and sends a size-run set before bulk, so the sizes are tried on the bike before the run is cut.
What to look for
- Ask which block your garment is on and what position it was drafted for.
- Full method: riding-fit pattern making.
03Print room
Room 03, the print room: one saved profile, one strip per run
The reason a jersey reordered next season matches the one from this season is a strip in a drawer
Profile, strip, archive. Sublimation prints the artwork into the polyester, and every fabric takes color differently. The print room profiles the artwork on the fabric it will be printed on, prints a test strip, checks it under a daylight lamp and saves the profile under the team name. Before every run, including repeat runs a year later, a new strip is printed and laid against the archived strip. If they do not match, the run does not start.
Why repeats take 15 days. The archive is why repeat sublimated orders ship in 15 days, and why a crew shirt, a glove back panel and a club jersey printed in different months read as one color.
What to look for
- Your color strip arrives with the sample.
- Profile, strip test and archive: sublimation printing process.
04Cut-and-sew lines
Room 04, the cut-and-sew lines: the first piece of each size, checked
The line does not run until the first piece of each size has been laid on the size sheet
By order, not by fabric. Printed panels and cut shell pieces come to the lines by order, so one team's kit moves through together. The start-of-line check lays the first finished piece of each size on the signed size sheet, measures it, and only then releases the size to the line. After the first 20 percent of the batch is sewn, the QC lead pulls pieces across sizes for the mid-line check; a failed mid-line stops the line until the cause is found.
Sewn to the map. Reinforcements, stretch panels and armor pockets are sewn on this floor to the reinforcement map on the line's page: inner-knee panels to the top of a brace, a one-piece palm on a glove, a seam that does not cross the seat of an enduro pant.
What to look for
- The start-of-line photo arrives before shipping, with the size sheet in the frame.
- Motocross jersey production and shell sewing run on separate lines, by order.
05Leather workshop
Room 05, the leather workshop: gauged hides, panel layout and the fitting
A leather suit is not sewn from a roll; every hide is different, and the workshop reads each one before it cuts
Read the hide first. The workshop gauges every hide for thickness and marks the areas that will not be used. Race suits and leather jackets are cut in 1.1–1.3 mm cowhide, with the heavier areas of the hide placed on the impact panels and the softer areas on the panels that flex. Perforation is done by panel, only where airflow is wanted, never through an impact panel. Stretch panels at inner arm, crotch and back are cut from a different material and set into the leather.
Fitted before the seams close. A made-to-measure suit is fitted on the rider or a form built to the rider's measurement sheet before the final seams are closed, which is why the leather sample takes 15–20 days rather than 7–10.
What to look for
- The gauge reading of your hides, and the fitting photo.
- Full method: leather race suit construction.
06Decoration room
Room 06, the decoration room: digitized once, thread against the strip
A badge that is orange on the jersey and rust on the hoodie makes the team look like two teams; this room stops that
Digitize once per size. The badge or logo is converted to a stitch file once at each size it will be used at, chest and back, and that file is the one used on every future piece. Thread colors are picked against the printed jersey strip under daylight, not against the screen, and the thread numbers are filed with the digitized badge. Heat transfer is used where embroidery would be too heavy for the fabric or too small for the logo: tees, small sponsor logos, some jackets.
On the panel, before the line. Leather perforation and heat-pressed sponsor logos on suits are done here too, on the panel, before the panel goes to the line.
What to look for
- The digitized badge reference and the thread numbers, filed under your name.
- Method: embroidery and heat transfer decoration.
07QC and packing
Room 07, QC and packing: three stages, one independent lead
Quality control that reports to production finds what production wants found; ours reports outside it
Three inspections, one independent lead. Start-of-line on the first piece of each size, mid-line after the first 20 percent of the batch is sewn, and final on every piece. A failed mid-line stops the line. At final, every piece is checked, names and numbers against the roster, badges side by side under daylight, and then packed by rider, member or size with the photo set taken before the box is sealed.
After delivery. A quality issue reported within 7 days is repaired, remade or replaced, and the decision on which is made within one business day of the issue being confirmed. The sales manager who opened the order owns that decision, not a service desk.
What to look for
- The packed-order photo set, every bag in the frame, before the box leaves.
- A quality issue inside 7 days: repair, remake or replace, decided within one business day.
7ROOMSin the order your order moves
3INSPECTIONSstart-of-line · mid-line at 20% · final
48Hlayout back from the design room
15+ YEARSsportswear customization, since 2011
One order, room by room
Your order's path: first message to the box, room by room
How we make motorcycle apparel in six stations, the same on every line; scroll the stations and the rooms light up where each one happens.
Now at: Station 01 · Roster or tech pack
Roster or tech pack
Sales desk · design roomThe sales manager reads the roster or the tech pack and returns questions within 24 hours on business days.
Layout or block
Design room · pattern roomThe design room places the artwork on the pattern pieces; the pattern room sets the block; back to you within 48 hours.
Print or cut
Print room · leather workshop · cuttingThe print room prints against the archive; the leather workshop gauges and cuts; the cutting room cuts shells.
Sew or decorate
Cut-and-sew lines · decoration roomThe lines sew; the decoration room embroiders from the digitized file and transfers where specified.
Inspect
Lines · QCStart-of-line, mid-line at 20 percent, final on every piece, by the independent QC lead.
Pack
QC and packingBy rider, member or size, with the photo set; the profile, the digitized badge and the size sheet filed for the reorder.
What leaves with the order
The five documents that leave the factory with your order
Five documents that travel with the garments out of the motorcycle apparel factory, so the next order does not start from zero.
The signed size sheet
The sizes the run was cut to, signed before bulk.
The color strip
Your archived strip, so you can check the next run against it yourself.
The layout
The approved layout with the artwork on the pattern pieces.
The photo sets
Start-of-line with the size sheet in the frame; packed-order with every bag in the frame.
The reorder pack reference
The profile name, the digitized badge reference and the thread numbers filed under your name.
Who owns your order
The order owner: one sales manager, first message to the 7-day window
Nobody hands your order to a department; one person carries it through the seven rooms of the motorcycle apparel factory
One person, seven rooms. One sales manager owns the order from the first message to the 7-day post-delivery window: reads the roster, returns the layout, sends the sample and the strip, schedules bulk backwards from your date, sends the photo sets, and makes the repair-or-remake call if something is wrong. The founder, Cindy, set the factory up this way after 15-plus years working with European and North American clients on sourcing, logistics and branding techniques, where the orders that went wrong were the ones that had been handed between departments.
The same first message. That is also why every line page ends with the same seven things to send: the sales manager reads the same first message for a kart suit as for a club hoodie.
Your contactAnna · Sales Manager · replies within 24 hours on business days · owns the order to the 7-day window.
- Layout, sample, strip, schedule, photo sets all come from the same person.
- The repair-or-remake call is made by the person who opened the order.
Reply within 24 hours on business days
Send the roster or the tech pack; we walk you through the rooms.
A video walk of the floor is available on request before the first sample.
Where the days go
Lead times as a floor plan: where the days go
How we make motorcycle apparel on a calendar: the days on the quote are the days in the rooms
Design room
48HLayout back to you.Print room and lines
7–10DAYSA sublimated sample.Leather, suit and jacket lines
15–20DAYSA leather, kart, fire suit or jacket sample.All rooms
25–35DAYSBulk after sample approval, scheduled backwards from your date.Print room, from the archive
15DAYSA sublimated repeat.QC and the sales manager
1BUSINESS DAYThe repair, remake or replace decision after an issue is confirmed.
Deeper into one room
The process pages behind the rooms
Six pages that go deeper into a single room
Sampling and production processThe sample, the size-run set and the three inspections.
Sublimation printing processThe profile, the strip test and the archive.
Leather race suit constructionHide gauging, panel layout, perforation and the fitting.
Embroidery and heat transferDigitizing, thread matching and when to transfer instead.
Riding-fit pattern makingHow the riding blocks are drafted for the seat and the stand.
OEM / ODM development processTech pack to shared base block for private label.
Send the roster or the tech pack
Tell us what you are making, and we tell you which rooms it goes through
Anna replies within 24 hours on business days with the right line page and a feasibility answer. No brochure, no price list; a real answer about your order.
Anna · Sales Manager
WhatsApp / phone: +86 177 0272 7677
Email: sales@runmotoapparel.com
Mon–Sat 9:00–18:00 (GMT+8)