Why I Stopped Wearing Motorcycle Body Armour

Hello, as an equipment retailer, this is going to sound like an April Fool's joke and it is, but it's not there. You see, I've been

wearing

body

armor for 20 years because that's what motorcyclists wear, like helmets are hard and headlights are bright, pads are safe. my instinct and it's wrong, mostly

motorcycle

gear comes with shoulders, elbows, hips, knees and a back pad, mostly, that's the most complicated part of riding gear, but I never questioned its usefulness and I was mainly wondering if using a C1 pad would be safe enough compared to the even ones. C2 annoying, so I did some surface level excavation and extraction studies of the last 10 years reading the brochure.

You don't have to go deeper to see these things in a different color. See in n621 states that a pad should take a realistic hit of 50j. and transmit less than 18 KES a C2 pad less than nine H what is the breaking strength of the strongest human bone 4 kons girls on horseback get certified armor for that 4 Kon threshold so why do our

motorcycle

s Are they two or four times weaker now? Paul Verns Very works in performance verification and accreditation, he tests these things and Paul says that the standard for impact protectors on the joints of the limbs of motorcyclists sets low risk requirements, but they were the ones that the industry supported.

He remembers that the explanation was that the standards requirements were minimal. Manufacturers were free to develop higher-performing products. The reality is that in the mass market where price is critical there was and is little or no ambition or incentive to do better than the standard demands; That apathy also extends to our

body

sizes. In 1621 he established a minimum size called type B in theory. They are free to make them bigger but again material is money and variety is cost so you with your extra extra small jacket will get a type D pad and you with your extra extra large jacket will get a type B pad.

These They are just too small and too thin to be of statistical benefit and research can show that what they do is look at a few thousand motorcycle accidents with known injuries and then ask each person what they were

wearing

without a jacket, a motorcycle jacket and a armor. jacket no pants motorcycle pants armored pants then you are simply trying to correlate injury patterns with the use of body armor, but according to Liz Dome's study in 2011, despite the reduced risk of bruises and abrasions from wearing body armor, the benefits are not could be detected specifically in relation to fracturing the dwarf in 2017, the allowable transmitted force of 1621 may be too high to effectively reduce the probability of impact injury.

This is not surprising, given the human tolerance levels reported in the literature, no significant differences were found between the hardness of the impact protector material and the presence of an impact injury Dan in 2018 the protective effect was mainly due to a reduction in abrasions and lacerations protective clothing did not reduce the risk of fracture, dislocation or sprain in Meredith in 2019 the relationship between impact protector performance in the European standard test method and protection against injury is still unclear, So why are these things everywhere? I think it's not so much about protection as it is about protectionism.

The European standard stipulates that any AAA rated Class A garment must be sold with these impact pads which are something like a leather jacket or thick jeans, it is actually illegal in a motorcycle shop in Europe to sell such a garment. class A without these, what that means is that Revit Alpine Stars Dai ixen fans don't have to compete shelf to shelf with universal brands like coach, Levis or Patagonia. It doesn't matter that the pills do nothing to protect our bones, they are very effective in protecting a captive market for the motorcycle industry. Remember that it was the gear manufacturers who pushed for such a low performance threshold to begin with.

There is actually a term for this when regulation intended for our Public Safety is co-opted by an industry to become a convenient barrier to entry for its own competition the term is regulatory capture that is the quiet part the term silent said out loud high now we have to be careful where we go with this because these things are things of life so first there are independent rear pads that look like this and go beyond the C standards. I use it on race day, it works and there are airbags that go beyond C standards. I use it every day, it works, but it should.

We

stopped

supporting these tokens and I'm not going to sit here and tell you to take off your jacket armor because it's kind of protective, of course, you can slide on this, it might save you a bruise, maybe in some statistical anomaly. It will prevent you from a fracture. I can't tell you to take off your jacket armor. I can only tell you that I take off the armor of my jacket and I love it. Life is so beautiful that our instinct will be to protect it but our imperative that we have to remember is to appreciate it