| Whether you are an experienced motocross rider, | | | | down the drain, which I wasn’t pleased about, |
| or just about to get into the exciting world of | | | | as it was brand new. What I took away from |
| motor sport, choosing the correct motocross | | | | that day though, was how essential and important |
| body armour is essential for your safety while | | | | it is to purchase and wear body armour, the brick |
| riding. | | | | would have shattered my ribs to pieces. |
| Of course, motocross body armour isn’t the | | | | The same friend I was riding with, did not ever |
| only thing that will keep you safe, high quality and | | | | wear body armour, not even the soft foam |
| correctly sized elbow pads, knee pads, kidney | | | | protectors to save him from a roost. About 9 |
| belts and a helmet will also keep you safe when | | | | months after my incident, he collided with another |
| you have an ‘off’. As they say, | | | | motocross rider half way through a race, |
| “Prevention is better than cure”, so | | | | wrapping himself round a tree, coming to a stop, |
| protect yourself before your first accident, while | | | | only to be clattered by his own machine. Because |
| you are still intact! It is difficult to repair broken | | | | he wasn’t wearing any motocross body |
| bones and injuries you acquire over the years are | | | | armour, he ended up with a broken collarbone and |
| sure to come back and haunt you as you get | | | | seven broken ribs! He wears motocross body |
| older. | | | | armour now! He was lucky, over the years I |
| I will give you a quick example, it was a ride I had | | | | have seen any number of limbs punctured by a |
| quite a while ago now, but I still remember it to | | | | flailing handlebar. |
| this day: | | | | To be fair now though, any respectable club |
| I had been riding for about 4 years and I was | | | | which is running races should not let any rider |
| having a friendly race with a riding buddy. As he | | | | enter without some form of body armour, but |
| accelerated he chucked up a stone, half the size | | | | the number of people I see at farms and tracks |
| of a brick, which smashed into my Motocross | | | | without adequate protection is frightening. |
| Body Armour. Needless to say that was $90 | | | | |