My first in my new arsenal of saftey equipment.....

Well, here is the first of my arsenal of safety equipment...
as trail rider and mud rider most of us think that we don't need stuff like this
i kinda thought the same thing although i wore a basic chest protector...

Even more so if you do any competitive racing... do you need equipment...

i tell ya.. im not going thry this again... i am still in pain and the recovery is a slow process...
can'nt sleep yet and still popin pain pills...
we are all human and if you think that just cause you trail ride, you dont need safety stuff..
well sooner or later t could happen to you too..
no one is amune to not crashing or having an accident....
you will totally chance your tune if something like what happened to me happens to you... just sayin..

so here is some pics of my first purchase.. now that i have tryed on one.. they are super comfortable and have not just great protection for your neck
but also for the shoulder area... if i had a neck brace on i would have not broke my shoulder and have a plate with 9 screws in there to stay...

this is the basic protector and no need to spend 4 to 6 hundred on a neck protector.. i paid 182 bucks for this one.. retails for 300...

as i heal more i will be upgrading to a very good chest protector where the neck brace intergates into the protector... i have done major examining of all the stuff out there and
the troy lee design 5900 or 5955 chest protectors are the sh*t!

also for a body suit with under jersey protection the Fox is very nice and breathable...

im also looking at getting a padded under pant short for under the riding pants...

Leatt also makes a good chest protector but the TLD is superior but a bit expensive at around 250 bucks...
the body suits have arm protection too and the way my arm got ripped up i wish i would have had one on...

safety equipment is just not for the racing crowd but also for the rec. rider....
i had some major trauma to my body and it could have been easily worse...

check out my Leatt neck brace...

Have you ever looked at tekvests I have one form snowcross racing and if I didn't have it I probably wouldn't be here. Cased a jump and crashed down the centre of my chest onto the handle bars, it dented the vest but just winded me.

I'll be roasted alive for saying this I know, but perhaps you should be looking at a lighter machine for racing. It baffles me that people classify a renegade as a sport quad. It's not. It's a big, heavy 4x4 with the racks taken off and some suspension tweaks, and needs to be respected as such.

Please understand that I'm not saying this to be a dick, I just hate seeing good people get hurt or killed on these things. You have to admit Mark that your rollover would have been a lot less painful if your machine had been 400lbs lighter.

Yes true in a way.. you dont follow gncc in the eastern states do you? tons of people race 4 x 4. saftey equipment is needed no matter if you ride a lite 2 wheel drive or heavy 4 x 4.. there are as many racers on 4 x4's down there as there are 2 wheel drive quads or bikes.. look at the sxs racing.. tones of them race too.. they are heavy too but different, you have seat belts... the field of 4 x4's are just as big as 2 x4's and the light quads actually have more serious acciedents then the 4 x4 's do.... the renegade is a 4 x4 sport quad.. thats the classification in gncc.. if you follow the gncc and the worx leaques you would understand. heck they class the outlander as a race 4 x4 quad...lol

i do agree that if the quad was 400 lbs lighter my accident would have been better but then i was not wearing the proper gear too that really everyone should be wearing...
its hard to beleive what i said about the sport quads having more serious injuries but that comes from them being so light and they can fly 25 ft in the air and go much faster sometimes.. watch this vid, not that there are any wipeouts but look what the 2x 4 quads can do.. actually the 4 x4 's fly pretty good too, just to bad most the coverage is 2 x 4 here.... this is the last gncc ran 2 weeks ago in new york.. kinda can see that a wipe out on a sport quad is not nice either cause of what they can do.. the battenfelder rodeo up at barrrhead had 60 + quads racing.. 95 % where renegades and outlanders...just sayin...

not roasting you.. well maybe a little...lol...

I get where you're coming from for sure. Its all about doing what you love after all. I've seen a few GNCC events and I thought those guys on the 4x4s were the craziest of all. I guess I'm in the minority when I think that just because you can race something doesn't mean that you should. I've just known a lot of people who have been seriously maimed and two who have died on 4x4 quads, and in each case I know the excess weight of the machine was the cause of injury. Can they be operated safely? Absolutely. But as with anything there are always factors beyond your control, those factors are multiplied exponentially when racing, and the consequences of failure are drastically higher when riding an 800lb machine vs a 400lb one. After seeing a few buddies get crushed I figured if I was going to ride something that I couldn't lift off of me, then it had better have a roll cage and belts so I don't end up under it.

Again, just throwing in my two cents. Not trying to be preachy here.

yeah i hear yeah! no offence taken sir... we all speak our opinions.. and i understand where you are comin from... no worries... just as time goes no it seems that everything can be raced.. man they have professional lawn tractor racing.. ar'nt those for cutting grass? lmao.. but yet they have leaques with a actual cuircut and price money for lawn tractor racin.. you should see how they soup those things up!! its pretty funny! lol

Who in Edmonton sells the troy lee line? I wear mx boots and pants with the 661 chest protector with the spine and arm pads and thought I was good but after looking at your pics I want more. I've already broken ribs and punctured a lung which is why I wear the gear now. If there is better stuff out there I want to try it on.

Especially since I just picked up a 800 outlander xtp and am already really having fun with the power and suspension.

Hey Toy boy.. did you come to the jamboree this last time? .. im not sure who in edmonton sells them but there must be a few... thats what i was kinda thinkin.. to get the fox titan under armour with back brace and arm braces sewn in... the fox looks so breathable and looks to me when i looked at them all to be the best ventilation and snuggest fix to the body.. now the way you are saying there you want to now put a chest protector on top of your jersey, right? still wear the underneath too... thats what i want to try on and see how it feels...

cause with my neck brace i am going to get the TLD 5900 or 5055 cheast protector.. one had shoulder blade cups and the other one is just the strap over the shoulder... but the nice think is that you remove a section in the front and the rear of the TLD and the neck brace intergtrates right into the protector....

so this is the way i am going... getting the TLD Chest protector and then see if adding the under the jersey body suit and seeing what that feels like.. some say overkill and not needed.. i say i will be the judge of that when i try it on... lol

Toy boy, thanks for the thanks for this post... but where you at the jamboree this year?
i thought i met someone that called themselfs toyboy?? but cant remember.... where you from?

Nope wasn't me. I might go this year tho.

There sno such thing as over kill on safety Heal slow and steady.

As far as neck braces go I have used a few for downhill mountain biking and had a few hard crashes and I have found the Evs rc2 neck brace to be better in my opinion cuz it spreads the shock over your body not just on the rear support like on the leatt ones . But good for u one buying one .. Get well soon

my leatt has a front support? when i tryed it on it sits all over your top body so i would think it would spread the shock the same way, no? i mean everybody in supercross wears a leatt...
here is a pic