neck protection?

[rictus01]

Originally Posted by agy

Yes that's right. It's a foam protector. Doesn't seem all that great. I might be wrong as I don't know much about this stuff but it doesn't inspire confidence in me. My RST leather jacket seems to have a much better one which I think is ribbed too.
I was thinking of getting this one for my textile jacket to replace the foam one:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3604463751...#ht_500wt_1180

I have the same thing in four of my jackets, as they came with the dense foam insert as standard.

Cheers Mark.

I ordered the one from ebay now.

Monkey that's what I was thinking actually. If it was a problem, there would be more widespread protection.
Someone made an interesting point actually: sometimes in an accident you're far safer being ejected form the vehicle (as you would on a bike) than being squashed in a metal coffin i.e. a car. Interesting point of view
... so long as you don't hit anything once you're rolling I guess.

[NTECUK]

Originally Posted by agy

Monkey that's what I was thinking actually. If it was a problem, there would be more widespread protection.
Someone made an interesting point actually: sometimes in an accident you're far safer being ejected form the vehicle (as you would on a bike) than being squashed in a metal coffin i.e. a car. Interesting point of view
... so long as you don't hit anything once you're rolling I guess.

Your far and away safer in it.
Only in a minutee number of accidents would being outside a protective cell be any small advantage.

[yorkie_chris]

The statistics agree with that.

Just to get back to the types of armour for a minute, soft armour is really good at protecting from the sort of really painful (and likely!) soft tissue damage that you'll get just from falling on the floor (like from 10ft up, after a short stay in the highside hotel). Hard armour would transfer this impact not absorb it.

OTOH a very severe but highly unlikely sharp impact would be helped by hard armour, but I'm not sure what you're likely to hit. A broken bit of bike? A kerb you'd arguably be better with soft armour too? A ragged bit of car?


Just my opinion, but from a work point of view you're just as on the sick with a minor elbow, knee, coccyx fracture or other damage as you are from a (statistically not very likely) neck injury. So for my money I'd have decent gloves, back protector and EN-1621-1 elbow, shoulder and knee pads possibly hip pads too.

might get some slip on knee pads for the days when i risk it in jeans
hmmm i have for for roller skating maybe just wear those LOL

If you do get some please let me know what they're like.

Originally Posted by NTECUK

Moto GP riders don't have neck braces .
If it had benefit they would .

Moto GP riders arent likely to hit a tree, kerb, brick wall, car or tractor tho are they?!

A decent back protector is a must, I upgraded mine fairly quickly.

As for neck protection I've never seen nor looked for any just a decent fitting lid and nothing that will restrict movement.

Originally Posted by monkey

If you do get some please let me know what they're like.

quite a few knox ones on ebay. about a tenner for a set

@yorkie_chris, I'm thinking if you hit a kerb or anything else with an edge then soft armour with a hard outer skin will cushion the impact most effectively because the hard outer layer will spread it accross a wider area and the inner soft will deform to cushion the impact.