Surprisingly inexpensive - Bull-it knee and hip armour

[McShanNZ]

Just had some knee and hip armour for my Bull-it Jeans arrive this arvo. Although spending about $160 on the jeans (over a year ago) the armour was about $43 ex shipping (thanks Motomail).

The motivation to level up came from watching a youtube clip recently from C2W wearing RHOK jeans. He spilled wearing kevlar jeans but he had no armour inserts, the jeans alone didn't protect him from a knee laceration. He seemed to think he would've walked away if he had them.

Bit of an eye opener. Link below with his explanation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCoP3cN-Y_Y&list=UUidMMQafCAomjuD_a3DcdHw&feature=c4-overview

[Tazz]

I'm not convinced it would make all that much difference, well at least on my jeans. If I wear MX boots I think the knee pads would stay for bit of a slide but in just ordinary bike boots they'd get pushed out of the way easy as.

I still use em but I'll probably regret not using decent knee pads in an off on the tarmac.