New Endura Kit – Protection For Even More Of Your Body

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Endura has entered the helmet market across the pond, with helmets now certified to USA standards and on sale now. But never fear, it’s not just the Americans that get new gear (and all the best snow, and iconic riding locations, and the better tacos than us), because us small islanders also get a crop of new protective wear.

Shoutout here to Jasmin, who we happen to know is a Singletrack reader, for modelling the kit in the marketing pics designed to lure the US market into purchasing Endura gear. Might sell a few Cotics too?

The protection line up leaves almost no body part unprotected by D30, and puts the gravity market firmly in Endura’s sights.

Endura are upping their game on the protection front in 2023, so riders can FEAR.LESS as they hit the trails this season. The most memorable rides are the ones that include an element of risk, so the brand wants its riders to reduce the fear that comes with this, and enjoy their mountain biking more, safe in the knowledge that they’re wearing the most advanced protective technology.

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Apparently riding bikes is fun.

MT500 D3O Protector Vest

  • £89.99

The size specific D3O LP-1 vest has removable back and chest inserts, for versatile lightweight, breathable protection. Additional ‘strategically placed padding’ supplies further impact protection around the body. The inserts’ highly vented geometry increases the inserts breathability by 45% whilst retaining EN1612-1:2012 level 1 certification. It’s
lightweight, low-profile design and soft, flexible properties make this an unobtrusive and comfortable high-performance
protector. So good you’ll want to wear your protection on the outside.

MT500 D3O® Ghost Elbow Pad

  • £59.99

These use the D3O Ghost insert for a “barely there” feel in a certified elbow pad. Endura says that its worked hard to make sure all its gear is protective, but also comfortable. If you’re not wearing it because it got a bit tight/sweaty/rubby, then you’re not protected, right?

MT500 D3O® Shin Guard

  • £39.99

Hannah is excited about these. She has high hopes that a set of these might mean she doesn’t have to deploy steri-strips on her partner quite so often. 50-odd years of flat pedals and freeriding have left him with more scars than skin, and Hannah isn’t sure how much longer she can keep sticking things back together. These shin pads use D3O’s XT insert for low-bulk, high level impact protection saving riders from shin hits. And hopefully save Hannah from having to go to plastic surgery night school.

MT500 D3O Open Knee Pad

  • £79.99

For those that might want to take their pads off without removing socks and shoes, these open pads avoid the ‘sleeve’ design. Handy perhaps if you want to add them mid-ride as things get spicy.

MT500 Full Face MIPS Helmet

  • £219.99

The MT500 Full Face MIPS Helmet is downhill certified but lightweight. This flagship helmet now incorporates a MIPS Brain Protection System to help reduce rotational motion transferred to the brain from angled impacts to the head and continues to use 3D formed Koroyd inserts for enhanced airflow and improved energy absorption.

SingleTrack Full Face Helmet

  • With MIPS £149.99
  • Without MIPS £129.99

The SingleTrack Full Face Helmet is for enduro and hard charging trail riders. Available in a MIPS and non-MIPS version, these pack in features but at a lower price point than its downhill certified MT500 sibling.

SingleTrack Youth Full Face Helmet

  • £109.99

The SingleTrack Youth Full Face Helmet shares all the same tech features as the adults’ versions with large vents for increased airflow, one handed micro-adjust fit system, goggle-friendly design with rear strap gripper. But in a smaller package for smaller heads, obvs.

The Endura MT500 MIPS

As a final thing that Endura is keen to shout about, its top-of-the-line open face MT500 MIPS Helmet has received a 5-star ranking from Virginia Tech, meaning its been found to be up there with the most protective helmets currently available.

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    ayjaydoubleyou
    Full Member

    you will never convince me shin guards are necessary or attractive

    the rest looks good though

    stwhannah
    Full Member

    @ayjaydoubleyou I have gruesome pictures I’m not going to share. When your skin gets super thin and you’re running out of non-scar-tissue to glue together, you might think otherwise!

    zerocool
    Full Member

    @Ayjaydoubleyou – good shoes and pedals have pretty much eliminated the need for shin pads in our groups. I think the only shin injuries I’ve had have been pedal/shin interfaces.

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    fazzini
    Full Member

    you will never convince me shin guards are necessary or attractive

    I’m actually thinking they’d be a great idea, worn in reverse…my calves will thank me every time they interface with the pedal pins 😳

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    That youth Full Face is a great idea… I see so many children in helmets that look huuuuuuuge with a chinbar this <———————————————> long, and I am sure the rotational injuries on a neck in a crash might be worse than the head injury…

    ayjaydoubleyou
    Full Member

    good shoes and pedals have pretty much eliminated the need for shin pads in our groups. I think the only shin injuries I’ve had have been pedal/shin interfaces.

    yeah I’ve got a photo of me somewhere deliberately trying to slide off the back of pedals (5:10 and dmr V12). not even close to being an issue. I know i’m inflexible but my achilles would snap long before I got to an angle that would allow me to slide off.

    Hannah now has me worried about repeated scarring and thinning skin which is something I’ve not considered. Quite a few bits of me I’d be more worried about than my shins for this though.

    robertajobb
    Full Member

    I’m with Hannah on this one, with shins that repeatedly engaged with pedals in the 1990s and 2000s, so have been skinned on countless times.

    Oh… I also have a divot in one shin down to the bone where a rock was flung up of the front wheeland hit my shin.
    A. It hurt like fheck mid downhill.
    B. It subsequently got infected down to the bone.
    C. The thought of it happening again when rattling down a peaks or alpine rockfest makes me curl my toes up whilst riding if I’ve not got shinpads on.

    MrOvershoot
    Full Member

    stwhannah

    @ayjaydoubleyou I have gruesome pictures I’m not going to share. When your skin gets super thin and you’re running out of non-scar-tissue to glue together, you might think otherwise!

    Very true after taking 6″ of skin off my left shin right down to the bone last summer and having to take Warfarin for AF I would welcome any protection.

    oldfart
    Full Member

    @stwhannah
    Are they still doing the lycra shorts with D30 pads ? For us oldies with dodgy backs who want to protect their coccyx 😔 My recent Fox Titans have gone all weird on the sizing 🙄

    fazzini
    Full Member

    Those shorts look like my American Football shorts from a few years back 😂. In fact, they’d probably have done a better job!

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    dangeourbrain
    Free Member

    The size specific D3O LP-1 vest

    Size specific clothing? That’s quite the bold aim.

    keefezza
    Free Member

    Bought that D3O vest from merlin cycles last week and seems comfy. Having never used chest/back protection before I have nothing to compare to and haven’t ridden yet. But for the price, and I want to ride more bike parks/uplift centres, seems a bargain to me.

    kelvin
    Full Member

    With the vest… is it mesh behind the removable panels, or similar material to the rest of the vest? Wondering how cool it runs.

    keefezza
    Free Member

    I’ll report back with photos tonight, quite thin material from memory. The D3O feels quite stiff initially but then seems to morph to the body somewhat. I haven’t used it in anger yet and I’ll be trying it both over a jersey and under to see how it fares.

    ayjaydoubleyou
    Full Member

    The D3O feels quite stiff initially but then seems to morph to the body somewhat.

    yeah your body heat will soften it

    Bunnyhop
    Full Member

    Ah no hip protection for us oldies with osteoporosis. Believe me most woman after the menopause get bone density problems, also there will be more woman 50+ mtbing in the future than ever before.

    I’ve got hip protectors for skiing but they aren’t that comfortable to mtb in (mainly the warmer months).

    nicko74
    Full Member

    Tbh what would get me buying more Endura gear is if they reintroduced quality materials into their clothing. The decline in the quality (fabric, stitching, features) over the last 10 years is staggering, to the point that the products (I’m thinking Singletrack and Humvee shorts, but also tops etc) barely seem to be from the same brand. The flimsiness now doesn’t fill me with confidence that their protective gear would really stand up to abuse, were I in the market for it…

    tetrode
    Full Member

    Bought that D3O vest from merlin cycles last week and seems comfy. Having never used chest/back protection before I have nothing to compare to and haven’t ridden yet. But for the price, and I want to ride more bike parks/uplift centres, seems a bargain to me.

    I can’t find it anywhere for £89.99, it’s £98 on merlin but the RRP looks way higher than that, is the article incorrect?

    stwhannah
    Full Member

    @tetrode Just checked, £89.99 for the vest is definitely what I was told!

    feed
    Full Member

    you will never convince me shin guards are necessary or attractive

    the rest looks good though

    I have regular pedal shin interfaces but not enough to wear shin protection, but roost \ chest protection on mtb gear ? Can’t see the need for this, makes sense in MX racing where the bike in front is throwing up rocks but not for mtb unless I’m missing something.

    doomanic
    Full Member

    Looks like the RRP of that vest is £129.99.

    keefezza
    Free Member

    I paid £98 at merlin.
    Also forgot to do what I said I was going to do, life n that. I promise I’ll report back at latest during this coming weekend 😁

    keefezza
    Free Member

    I have photos.

    External bits. Seems good quality material.
    Foam padding on areas outside of the main D3O.

    Internal. Foam padding has a soft foam style covering, this won’t be the main bit in constant skin contact if under a jersey. The material over the D3O feels like base layer/moisture wicking sort of material. Very thin and soft, nice. Same front/back.

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    Happy to answer any other questions but I haven’t used in anger yet and not sure when I’ll get chance for a few weeks at best. I plan to use for places like uplift and push up bike parks mostly rather than general trail riding.

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