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RE: Broken Collarbone - Best Protection against this is?

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cmotodad:
I wear a Leatt! In 07 had a small endo on a little jump, I went over the front and broke the Leatt. After the legs went over the head, a  little sore with a broken back but no neck injury. 5 months later raced Mammoth and had a good year. For me and my family, neck brace is a Must Have.

Brute:
I always tell people to wear all the gear. But,,, I am one of 'those guys' you have seen wearing shorts, sandals, tank top and beanie helmet at times on the street. I used to make a lot of 160 (320 round trip) mile summer runs on the HD wearing as little as I could get away with. Not a pretty picture! Just last year I purchased my first ‘serious’ off road protection and it saved my butt first time out. Very cool. It is nice to have.

wierdo:
I work in a hospital in aussie and have seen results of some horror offroad bike accidents some with body armour of some type and some without, the only thing that i have seen in common with them all is there is always going to be something broken, and yet i ride with no protection really, i have my bmx helmet, long sleeve shirt, pants and steel cap boots and fingerless mechanic gloves. Last year while riding my mates xr650 i got high sided at 70kph going around a long sweeping corner ona gravel road, got thrown from the inside to the outside and cartwheeled in to the bush, come to rest ona small log. once i got my breath i told my mate to call the ambulance. got discharged 2 hours later from the hospital i work at and walked out with some help from the missus. yes i was bloody sore but unbroken maybe the restriction in movement is more detrimental to the body parts around the protective clothing in a crash. would explain why drunks walk away from carnage that should have killed them, and i've seen that as well.
when i raced bmx we would tell all the kids never ride slow it hurts more when you come off, you could say we were trying to motivate the kids to go harder but the truth is it really does hurt more if you ride slow.
morale of the story... ride hard but not too hard and if you come off relax and go with the flow, because really what else can you do?

Ims Roll:
If done correctly it should only take about 8lbs to break any bone in your body.

Marco810:
Ive managed to break my nose riding, so do they make nose braces? yes i was wearing a full face helmet

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