Boby Armour - any good?

Colin Anderson said:

Just crashed my new Giant VT1 and got a broken shoulder, only 6 months after crashing my Saracen
and getting a broken wrist! Luckily bike is undamaged (phew!!) Her indoors and my bosses at work
are rather peeved so it looks like some drastic measures will need to be taken if I am to be
allowed to carry on riding. I'm looking at the SixSixOne pressure suit (£130 from Edinburgh
Bikes). Has anyone tried one of these and are they any good? I'm looking for shoulder, chest and
spine protection. Are they comfortable, what the hell do you wear over them, are they hot to wear?
Any suggestions for alternative gear welcome. Cheers Colin

Try asking on the Singletrack Forum - you'll be more likely to get an informed answer from like
people there than here.

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Just crashed my new Giant VT1 and got a broken shoulder, only 6 months

after

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crashing my Saracen and getting a broken wrist! Luckily bike is undamaged (phew!!) Her indoors and
my bosses at work are rather peeved so it looks like some drastic measures will need to be taken
if I am to be allowed to carry on riding. I'm looking at the SixSixOne pressure suit (£130 from
Edinburgh Bikes).

Has

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anyone tried one of these and are they any good? I'm looking for shoulder, chest and spine
protection. Are they comfortable, what the hell do you

wear

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over them, are they hot to wear? Any suggestions for alternative gear welcome. Cheers Colin

Well Steve Peat uses it if that helps

Cheers

Michael

www.bluemerlin.co.uk

That depends on how many broken bones he's had and how many he would have had if he wasn't wearing
it. I'm not into any sort of free riding or anything - i was on a proper cyclepath on some raised
duckboards which turned out to have a VERY slippery ramp down at the end. Never even got to the pub
for lunch - spent the afternoon in hospital. Cheers Colin

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Just crashed my new Giant VT1 and got a broken shoulder, only 6 months

after

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crashing my Saracen and getting a broken wrist! Luckily bike is undamaged (phew!!) Her indoors
and my bosses at work are rather peeved so it looks like

some

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drastic measures will need to be taken if I am to be allowed to carry

on

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riding. I'm looking at the SixSixOne pressure suit (£130 from Edinburgh Bikes).

Has

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anyone tried one of these and are they any good? I'm looking for

shoulder,

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chest and spine protection. Are they comfortable, what the hell do you

wear

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over them, are they hot to wear? Any suggestions for alternative gear welcome. Cheers Colin

Well Steve Peat uses it if that helps

Cheers

Michael

www.bluemerlin.co.uk

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I'm not into any sort of free riding or anything - i was on a proper cyclepath on some raised
duckboards which turned out to have a VERY slippery ramp down at the end. Never even got to the
pub for lunch - spent the afternoon in hospital.

I presume you complained to whoever was responsible for the cyclepath. It should be maintained to an
appropriate standard.

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Colin Anderson said:

That depends on how many broken bones he's had and how many he would have had if he wasn't wearing
it. I'm not into any sort of free riding or anything - i was on a proper cyclepath on some raised
duckboards which turned out to have a VERY slippery ramp down at the end. Never even got to the
pub for lunch - spent the afternoon in hospital.

This is not an unsympathetic reply and I'm not taking the [censored].

I'm nearly fifty and do a lot of off-road biking, and consequently fall off a fair bit. Lately I've
got myself a new helmet and am thinking of knee and elbow pads, but the reason I'm thinking of them
is to give me confidence to tackle more difficult routes.

If you're getting hurt falling off at relatively low speeds and on relatively easy tracks, then what
you want it not body armour, but practice in falling off. I think it's very unlikely that body
armour will help you not break bones. It will help you not lose skin and meat, but that doesn't seem
to be your problem.

I suggest two things: a judo (or similar) class where you can learn to fall in controlled conditions
with an instructor who knows how to do it (and tell the instructor that you really want to learn how
to fall); or else take your bike out into a soft field with no rocks or other hard bits, and just
practice falling off, again, and again, and again.

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take your bike out into a soft field with no rocks or other hard bits, and just practice falling
off, again, and again, and again.

Thank you, Simon, for that picture. As I run the video in my mind's eye I can clearly hear the
Goodies theme playing in the background :-)

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Simon Brooke said:

take your bike out into a soft field with no rocks or other hard bits, and just practice falling
off, again, and again, and again.

Thank you, Simon, for that picture. As I run the video in my mind's eye I can clearly hear the
Goodies theme playing in the background :-)

Goodie goodie, yum yum.

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