Pressure suit v body armour?

[Wolf]

Lemans, what model UFO suit? Motu, what make and model pressure suit and armour do you use?

Which shops have them in stock that I might be able to go and scope them out? Most the MX-style armour I've seen around is the rigid roost protectors (seriously considered getting them to wear under my gear but not sure how they would suit touring.)

[Wolf]

Kasper has kindly given me the loan of his EVS Ballistic jacket for a while to see how I like wearing a pressure suit. It's a tad large on me but it will serve to see how I go with the rigamarole of putting on a pressure suit and then my jacket (and removing same at my destination), how hot I get on protracted rides and how it feels having the armour strapped to my body rather than wafting around as part of the jacket.

It will also give me a "baseline" for any comparisons with other makes and models.

I took the hard armour out of my DriRider's shoulder pouches and tried wearing it over the Ballistic jacket - it felt a bit weird and bulky but it wasn't a major hassle squeezing my armoured torso into the DriRider. Definitely leaning towards a pressure suit under a warm, waterproof outer rather than a jacket with integral armour, now.

I also went for a ride up the road wearing the Ballistic jacket over a T-shirt instead of my DriRider - the cool wind was quite refreshing but I would not have liked to have fallen off with nothing but mesh and a few pieces of hard armour between me and the road - I definitely need an outer jacket designed to take a spill on tarmac or an MX jersey for off-road.

Wandering around in helmet, boots, heavy gloves and Ballistic jacket, I had to fight the impulse to grate out "Suitable subjects will be upgraded, inferior subjects will be deleted. Delete, Delete, Delete!" I knew it wouldn't be long before I started wondering why I can't electrocute people by touching them and why the plasma weapons in my forearms weren't working...

That's pretty much all the riding I've had time for in the few hours since I was loaned it - will keep updating.

[laRIKin]

Well Wolf I'm not really sure what model it is.
The only thing that I can find that properly the model is the word Plast on the the sticker that goes at the back of the neck of the armour.

Now I remember the adjustment straps that hold the elbow pads use to dig in to the pit of my elbow.
So when I found were I like the straps I stitched up the straps and cut the plastic "D" rings off.

The jacket has a large open weave that can feel strange and can itch a bit (not in a bad way more of a tingles) when you take it off after a ride.

And like I said earlier I have to wear a tank top under it or the open weave or it will make your nipples bleed on a hard ride. (not nice at all)

It has lasted well and is still good to wear but is showing signs of wear after 3 years and I ride every weekend to twice a month normally for 4-6 hour rides.

I have had some biggish off's and have been OK afterwards and think it has saved me more than once when I have bounced off trees or that ground that gets harder every year.