chemicalsmile
Junior Member
I generally wear all the gear besides pants...always thought it was too much of a pain. I recently came across some knee/shin armor from Shift for around $13 so I figured it would be better than just jeans like I normally wear. MAN am I glad I got them - hit a 2" thick patch of loose gravel a few days ago and they helped immensely. Was only going 10mph or so turning through an intersection but the rear end just washed right out on me.
Here are my jeans afterwards:
I don't have a picture of the leg armor yet but it was pretty bad, had a bunch of pieces of gravel ground into it...that would have been my knee! Ego and my hip were bruised a little but that's all. Was also pretty cold riding home in those jeans haha.
Bike isn't too bad, T-rex slider saved most of it, but I had the longer slider from their new design on the right hand side of the bike...if I had the correct (shorter) one on there, the damage would have been worse....getting extended sliders to replace these...T-rex has gone too short on their new design:
Anyhow, what I learned is always use some type of leg protection, be it armor or riding pants (probably will be getting some now). I would have been in the ER getting pieces of gravel pulled out of my kneecap otherwise.
Here are my jeans afterwards:
I don't have a picture of the leg armor yet but it was pretty bad, had a bunch of pieces of gravel ground into it...that would have been my knee! Ego and my hip were bruised a little but that's all. Was also pretty cold riding home in those jeans haha.
Bike isn't too bad, T-rex slider saved most of it, but I had the longer slider from their new design on the right hand side of the bike...if I had the correct (shorter) one on there, the damage would have been worse....getting extended sliders to replace these...T-rex has gone too short on their new design:
Anyhow, what I learned is always use some type of leg protection, be it armor or riding pants (probably will be getting some now). I would have been in the ER getting pieces of gravel pulled out of my kneecap otherwise.