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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Expat on March 08, 2008, 04:52:27 pm
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I need to purchase a neck brace but confused by choices available.
Must be affordable which eliminates the $999 stuff.
What are members using and how do you rate them?
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Hi expat , EVS have a neck brace due 1st week in June , retail price in NZ will be $249.00 - so no need to be ripped any longer
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have a look at the new RC evolution neck brace here
http://www.motonews.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=4&func=view&id=24064&catid=4
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Buy cheap and that's what you get .(shit)
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EVS has never made a bad product , recognised as the market leader in protective gear so their neck brace has been developed properly, can you really look at a Leatt brace & see how they charge soo much for it ??? , we are just getting rippped off , mark my words , Leatt will drop their price as soon as the EVS or the Alpine star brace hits the market ,
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I don't know whether the price would come down much at all. A pair of CTI knee braces still cost $1400, dearer than the first set i bought 10 years ago and they used to have the market sewn up too.
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Actually a standard Leatt brace is about $699 which is pretty reasonable considering 1 good knee brace is about the same price and the consequences of breaking a neck compared to a knee can be a whole lot worse. I wear CTI knee braces and am about to buy a Leatt kneck brace cos i've already had 2 knee reconstructions and any extra protection for my neck is well worth it.
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'31, did your knee injuries come about before or after the CTi braces?
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1 injury was in '83 before knee braces and the other was in '99 when i should've had knee braces but didn't think it was important. Not saying that it would've definately stopped the injury but i've since given them a few good tweaks with braces on and suffered no real injury.
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I think I'd feel like a real dick if I had to spend $40,000.00 renovating my house for the chair and have my missus change my colostomy bags every couple of hours because I thought I'd wait for the price of something to go down......
Apparantly racing motorcycles is dangerous. I know this because they tell me every meeting before we all go out and T-bone each other...
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Hey 414 did i tell you about my KNEE :D :D :'(
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Only 427 times Paul.....
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428 ?
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'31, thanks for the info; I was hoping you'd say PRE braces!
I've recently paid the big bucks for the CTi braces and they certainly give a sense of security.
My knees have had five ops over the years with two being re-constructions - so I easily justify the huge price tag.
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I have the leatte brace and love it.. good quality, dont know i am wearing it whilst tearing it up.. I was strapped for cash a little when buying it..
I figured if i was lying in a hospital bed with a doctor telling me i could never walk again or kick the footy with my kids etc.. i would pay $600,000 at that moment instead of pissin and moaning about $650!
I have seen Bronte Holland, a good guy and awsome mx/sx talent loose his ability to walk again to a simple crash.. its all it takes.. If he had the brace on... well ya never know do ya! go get one!
My kids will never ride without one.
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I'm cashed up and about to get a neck brace. Are leattes still the way to go or have the competition got something worth looking at now.
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Alpinestar have a new neck brace coming out in August about $650 us
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Just googled neck braces and seems that EVS have one out now at about half the cost of a leatt. Not sure how it compares though.
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(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/ibop/2005649523364923575_rs.jpg)
from gator
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Just googled neck braces and seems that EVS have one out now at about half the cost of a leatt. Not sure how it compares though.
$wont be available till july retailing for $210 the inporter says. look shit hot too i say. asked for a demo model for a loan but the importers says he aint even got them yet so those on ebay saying shipping from june 1st are on drugs ATM. For some reason the EVO hasnt left the factory yet as a release, hopefull on weeks away as they are well priced for everyone. i also notice you can get the leet one for 395 now, bout time that got real for a chunk of plastic and foam.
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I've been wearing an EVS race collar for a while now, better than nothing I think. And I am buying one of their new ones as soon as it turns up. I would probably buy a Leatt if it weren't for the EVS. I reckon the EVS will be good enough to do the job. But yep, neck protection is a great idea, and it is good to see so many kids in them now.
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Can /Has anyone worn a Leatt neck brace over armour.I wondering if they can be adjusted to sit on/over the mandatory back protectors for dirt track these days. I imagine they can but a little know how would be needed I'm guessing-anyone out there doing this with theirs?
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I was told while recently in the Alfred hospital, that if i didnt have my Leatt neck Brace on when i crashed, that it was near certain i wouldnt be walking again.. or playing with my little girl when she grows up.. To me, i dont give too hoots how much the brace is, cos to have been lying in that bed being told i wasnt going to be able to walk again, i would of pain a million bucks to have changed things. I have only shattered my shoulder blade into 4 peices and broke the three top ribs, destroyed my AC joint and cracked the rotator cuff in my shoulder.. aswell as all the muscle tears to go with it probably! Its a 8 week sentence compared to a life sentence really..
Worth every penny of the $650 the brace cost me.
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Sounds pretty serious mxmaniac. Did you hurt yourself on a modern or a vintage? The reason i ask is most big injuries seem to happen on a modern. A forum member and i were talking about that recently
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As a matter of interest I'd/we'd all be interested in what mxmaniac was riding when the accident occurred, but it's always the impact and the speed that does the damage.
if the injury stats are higher for moderns I'd guess it's because there are far more moderns tearing up the tracks....don't ya think? :-\
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i know from watching the '08 250 and 450Ts ripping up the Young Amcross track last sunday that their donks and shocks allow them to get up to incredible speeds in like a nanosecond, meaning anytime they got a few yards more, they're going 80/90k's. all you got to do then is miss the brake before the corner berm and you are an astronaut.
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they also rip up each and every track so much that no matter how fancy your suspension you spend half the time trying to get your feet back on the pegs and front wheel pointing forward. its a no-win situation - the more they develop good suspension, the more they also develop the power and braking which in turn when applied to mother earth just shreds it all the more.
by the last race at young, the acceleration and braking ruts were more like full sets of stutters - make that whoop-de-doos!
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i WAS TRAIL RIDING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE ON A YAMAHA WR450, THERE WERE TREES TOWN ACROSS THE TRACK AND DID THE SAME THING I HAVE DONE A MILLION OTHER TIMES WHILE JUMPING OVER TREES, JUST THIS TIME IT ALL WENT PEAR SHAPED!.. SHIT HAPPENS I GUESS, JUST LUCK OF THE DRAW! BEING STUCK IN THE BUSH WAITING FOR AN AMBULANCE WAS A FREAAKY EXPERIENCE.. PUTS THE WIND UP YA AND MAKES YA THINK TWICE ABOUT TRAIL RIDING AGAIN :o
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Ahhh; it was a Yamaha...
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Being six foot tall, I have stood in those whoop-de-doos after a weekend of 400 moderns and they have been up to my shoulders deep.
Really?! :o are you serious?! :o Sheeeit!! :o
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Well I'm shorter than six foot... which is why I wear my MX boots under my day clothes, but it's the five foot whoopdees that surprise me...
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its funny, we often fantasise about having 'rich loamy soil' to race on, like they have in the states (not cal) and nz, but you forget just how much loose soil ruts up and makes for horrendous solid ruts both in the direction you're going in (meaning any hesitation and you cross rut and go over) or across the track ruts (which mean your corner entry and exits put you all over the shop). conversely, i always used to think what a shame it was that fairbairn park had this rotten hard as rock clay 'soil'.
well after the amcross young gig where all that 'rich dark loam' turned the track into a navigational nightmare (vmxman will confirm - he thought it was a good trials track), i now see fairbairn as blessed. you can race on it all day long with hundreds of others and there's very little rutting up in and out of corners, and jumpfaces stay the same (smooth - and the safer for it).
and now mr myers has added them truckloads of sand and sawdust to the straights, do get the loam effect but without the rutting. we're blessed in fact!!
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Wombat,
Try getting to Coolum one day and see how that track whoops out, I kid you not some of the mini riders double the whoops coming into and exiting corners.
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Reedy was doing that in a race about 10 years ago at Manjimup. The braking bumps were getting so big that he just slowed down a bit & tripled the last three 'bumps' into the corner. He was saving heaps of energy doing that while everyone else was ploughing through them & getting beat up!