Comments on: Knee pads

By: Olly

Olly — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:43:20 +0000

To be fair you were heading out on the cross-country trail. I bet the world cup XC racers don’t wear full-facers around there.

Then again, I guess the XC racers don’t dive face-first into the rocks either ;)

By: gordon

gordon — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:56:19 +0000

reminds me of a time i decided to leave the full facer in the car at fort william!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:36:39 +0000

Don’t be such a wuss Tim. If you go to any trail centre everyone is wearing body armour mostly for the reason they topple over at the speed they travel.
I’ve got a fat knee from last night in a heavy fall but it doesn’t make me think I should put my pads on. They are for doing specifically silly things or uplift days.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:18:49 +0000

Ouchie!

First time we went to Afan, we were sat in the drop-off cafe watching the riders come in when one of our number piped up — “do you think we need body armour — they are all wearing it”

Hadnt even crossed my mind until that point — luckily no-one went down hard enough to warrant it.

Might dig out and bastardise my old hard knox pads :-)