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Safety Gear?
Platypus:
helmet (one area I will pay top dollar)
boots (another I will pay top dollar)
gloves
jersey
pants
chest protector
goggles
After one decent crash and one totally lame crash in gnarly sharp rocks I have decided it is time to get elbow pads. Two Saturdays ago my elbow swole up pretty good. Following Saturday I go down in some sharp rocks and sliced up the same elbow. I currently do not wear elbow or knee pads but I have been riding on rougher and rougher trails and it is probably time to make those investments. I will also be getting some spandex undies to secure the jewels.
Alan. I have started my 500 with running shoes on several times now. I'm sure I'll regret doing it one of these days :-P.
KXcam22:
Long ago I once started my 400 Maico with loafers on. It happened to backfire just as my foot slipped off the kickstart. The end of the kickstart happened to catch me under the ankle bone a gave me a small greenstick tibia fracture. Lots of chance "happends" there. I had to race the Kingdome the next day with a borrowed sz12 boot and lots of tensors. Yuk. Chance happens - wear gear. Cam.
billygoat500:
The year before last I broke my elbow,(macular).
I was going slow speeds through a tight goat trail.
Back tire skipped off a rock when rolling the throttle.
I was maybe going 10 kph./5mph.
I was wearing FOX (piece of garbage) elbow pads.
Had surgery and a chunk of metal installed in my arm. Going in on tuesday to have the plate removed. Word to the wise do not buy the FOX slip-on elbow pads they are garbage and give a false sense of security, THOR QUADRANT elbow pads are by far the best out there. I have slammed my elbow to the ground way hard and dont even feel it. I lost a whole riding season because of those damb FOX pads. And now have to have surgery on tuesday to remove the flippin titanium plate from my arm. Doc says that its an in and out surgury but I think I wont ride for a least a month.Please guys wear protection. who would think that a little tumble (5-10kph) would put a guy in the opperating room.
Platypus:
I was thinking about these for the elbows:
http://www.sixsixone.com/Catalog_661Bike.aspx?id=d17ed330-34a9-4048-bb31-5f26ef3c388c&product=76fa7e9f-7612-4ff5-adbc-a3b05db43612
And these for the knees:
http://www.sixsixone.com/Catalog_661Bike.aspx?id=ee25955a-4724-4ada-a6d5-d2357e8f5b34&product=dc723865-5360-4d68-84d9-98dbc309a729
Big beefy ABS cups seem like a good idea to me.
demographic:
I did have one of those mesh vest things with built in back, shoulder and elbow armour but it was a bit tight on me when I bought it so I gave it to a young lad, who wasn't wearing it the day he fell off his bike on the road and died.
Theres a message in there somewhere...
RIP Spike.
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