Well that hurt...

[JakeR]

Its crazy. I only realised how bad some drivers/pedestrians are when i started driveing reletively recently.

In one of my first driving lessons i was going along near a T-junction and a white van pulled out and almost hit us. I thought it was my fault and it sent me into a complete panic! That wasn't a very good start to my driving.

More recently i was driving in the area of Cardiff high school along a main road. It was 4 o'clock so there were a few kids about. We were travelling at about 25-30 mph when a young school boy walked out from behind a white van (always white vans!) we were going to fast to stop before we reached him, so i just slammed the brakes on skidding, and cars behind doing the same. My driving instructor did the same, but i managed to get the breaks on before hand as i saw him first. We just avoided skimming him, but if i hadn't breaked when i did, we would have hit him, and at 20 -25 mph it coulda been very bad.

Anyways, best wishes mate. Hope your feeling ok. I know these sort of things can really shake people up.

Jake

 

[Jon]

The thing about nearly all protective gear is that it's designed to withstand sliding onn tarmac, not hitting something. You can get back protectors and a few other things but I just wear a helmet, gloves and some sturdy walking boots. Fortunately I seem to be able to withstand bumps well

Thats because you have a bouldering mat stuffed down your shirt !

 

[Squidders]

Lithril: riding naked is only illegal if they catch you

little mole: i'm ok really... no need to see the doc. I bounced off an old land rover years ago and was fine, a clio should pose no problem

Jake: I've been driving for 9 years and riding for 10 and I *STILL* am shocked by what some people think of as acceptable!

Jon: believe it or not, I have tried that but there's just too much wind resistance.

 

[Andy]

I really would like to see more carbon kevlar involved in protective gear. This would help a lot against impacts as well as the abrasive forces involved in a stack. What gets me is how in some ways mountain bik protective gear is more protective then motor bike stuff. Leather isn't a patch on kevlar and clarino for either abrasive resitance or heat transfer