Zero-sum game?

[Hitcher]

back protectors are designed to bend one way...[forward]...

Exactly my point. Bring me a crayon and I'll draw you a picture.

[cowpoos]

Exactly my point. Bring me a crayon and I'll draw you a picture.

use microsoft paint...I think I get what your trying to say...its just that it don't really work like that...other wise leathers wouldn't have areo hump thingies on them for racers!!

[Hitcher]

use microsoft paint...I think I get what your trying to say...its just that it don't really work like that...other wise leathers wouldn't have areo hump thingies on them for racers!!

Yes, but the "hump" is an integral part of the rider's leathers, and it sits higher up the rider's back than does a backpack AND it's deliberately intended to mitigate the sort of head-snap injury that concerns me. I cannot for one moment see how a Barbie bag that's slung over a rider's shoulders could even attempt to provide the same level of protection.

[cowpoos]

Yes, but the "hump" is an integral part of the rider's leathers, and it sits higher up the rider's back than does a backpack AND it's deliberately intended to mitigate the sort of head-snap injury that concerns me. I cannot for one moment see how a Barbie bag that's slung over a rider's shoulders could even attempt to provide the same level of protection.

fair comment...but I can't see where you believe the forces will be different...during an intial impact they all happen at the same time...its not like a ocean wave gradually traveling the length of your spine...like the forces on a stock whip...

[Freakshow]

Yes, but the "hump" is an integral part of the rider's leathers, and it sits higher up the rider's back than does a backpack AND it's deliberately intended to mitigate the sort of head-snap injury that concerns me.

I thought it was there for erobar(tm)dynamics.

And regarding a backpack catching??? there are about a thousand threads that are likly to break and rip before you reach the webbing frame that connects to the straps.

I would have thought having a laptop of hard leather folder in your backpack would be a safety feature as if hit something on your back it would spread the impact across a greater surface area???

I am guessing landing on a lunch box would hurt.

[imdying]

back protectors are designed to bend one way...[forward]...

Up to a point of course, nothing is unbreakable. Perhaps a backpack would push it past that point.

[Daffyd]

Jesus never went to a church - christianity hadn't been invented

Yes he did. He went to the synagogue as a child.

[Black Bandit]

Having binned, wearing both a back protector and a backpack at the time, one of the straps immediately ripped off the backpack and it divested itself of my body well before I stopped

back protectors are designed to bend one way...[forward]...

Ah, I think I get it. Why don't you guys just spit it out - no need to be so cryptic - how's a young grasshopper like me ever going to learn from you.

So the back protector's role is to prevent a certain scenario when you have an off - say landing face first and the back of your legs try to say hello to the back of your head?

I can see how a backpack is not going to be much use in preventing that. So then we should all be wearing back protectors - all the gear all the time?

*goes to see how much back protectors cost*

[rogson]

.....For that matter, why would anybody even slightly interested in riding safety wear a backpack?

To get the groceries home?