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bigdom86 Traffic Copper
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Teflon-Mike |
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Teflon-Mike tl;dr
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Posted: 18:28 - 12 Jun 2018 Post subject: |
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Eh?
Do you mean knee sliders?
Evolved on race tracks in the '70's by stuffing carved up cardboard or old tyres over the hole in racing-leather's kneed, covered with gaffa tape. Originally to get through scrutineering when they didn't have a spare pair of leathers or a seamstress handy, after an 'off', then as tyres got better and lean angles more predictable, being padded a bit more to use as a lean indicator until around the time of radial tyres, racers were making them out of resin and using thier knee as a 3rd wheel to prop the bike up a bit when the tyre shimmied....
Emulated by road riders, who... well, saw racers wearing them, and thought "They must be cool" and started adding titanium screws so that they got white sparks on their favorite round-about?
These are not any sort of protective apparel, and I cannot imagine why you would want them, let alone need them in 'city' riding, and certainly at sub 50mph velocities! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Teflon-Mike |
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Teflon-Mike tl;dr
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Posted: 18:38 - 12 Jun 2018 Post subject: Re: knee pads |
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bigdom86 wrote: | I am talking about city riding, not very fast 20-40mph max, obviously on motorway would be geared up fully |
More eh!
Why would you in any way think that you 'have' to tog up to the hilt, for a motorway, but not the city?
Motorways are statistically some of the safest roads we have in this country. Traffic moves.. maybe... fairly fast, but its contained in a tube, from which pedestrians, push-bikes and mopeds are banned; only moves in one direction, and there tends to be miles between junctions.
In the city.... traffic is every where... goes in ANY effin direction... and you have pedestrians jumping into the flow wherever, dogs, shopping trolleys, push-bikes jumping on and off the pavement, mopeds stuffing it up the inside of everything, and T junctions, round-abouts, driveways, and stuff every few yards....
And IF you come off... unlike a motorway where you have miles of uninterupted tarmac, and a whole lane of the stuff, probably empty before a big wide race track style gravel trap and grass verge.... you have kerb stones, litter bins (possibly cast iron ones I know only tioo well!!) lamps posts, parked cars, sign posts, telephone boxes, electricity switching boxes and a veritable host of very hard unyelding street furnature to bring you to a very sudden halt long before you stop sliding........
Most accidents happen in restricted 3mph speed limit zones, most injuries occur in them.. WHY on earth would you have some notion that you can get away with less 'protective apparel' in the city, yet need 'more' on a motorway?!?!?!? ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Posted: 20:06 - 12 Jun 2018 Post subject: |
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Tef. I think the op is talking about these:
https://preview.ibb.co/dOkwhy/maxresdefault.jpg
As opposed to knee sliders.
Don't know how good they are or aren't though. My fear would be that they won't hold their position when sliding down the road. They should help with initial impact if nothing else but, I'm only presuming and you know what they say about that. ____________________ There ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
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Teflon-Mike |
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Teflon-Mike tl;dr
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NJD |
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Posted: 00:07 - 13 Jun 2018 Post subject: |
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I'm guessing the other rider, that you saw, had normal jeans on with protection on top; I wouldn't follow suit.
Question is, then, why would you feel the need to use such a thing?
I recently purchased a pair of these and, on paper at least, they offer more protection than any textile jean I own; if you're in the market for a new pair -- or feel that your current pair aren't grand -- then I'd recommend them.
Interesting comment regarding "full gear" on motorways. I appreciate the speeds are faster but anyone coming in the opposite direction to you at 30 mph on any-old-road that you've travelled hundreds of times has the ability to veer over the line and kill you (I'm a bundle of joy, honest). Wear whatever you feel comfortable in; I find what gear I wear is determined more by the weather than the distance I'm going. ____________________ The do it all, T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶k̶e̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶g̶ ̶l̶u̶m̶p̶,̶ ̶C̶h̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶N̶o̶o̶d̶l̶e̶ |
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Posted: 12:13 - 13 Jun 2018 Post subject: |
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I have Knox jeans on right now:
https://www.planet-knox.com/product-category/denim/
Great thing about them is that they have a hidden zip on the inner knee/shin area so you can add & remove the armour without taking the jeans off. ____________________ NC700x. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 316 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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