Had mine about 3 months, the yellow ones. yesterday i tested the effectivness of them and i can say that they most certainly do work, doing a small downhill switchback managed to fall off and strike my knee on a large pointy rock hard enough to cause a graze behind the knee pad, after a few minutes hopping about the pain stopped and we contuined onward, well today apart from the small graze and a slight bruise there is no other pain or mark, if i was not wearing the pad it would of been a A and E job as the force of the fall twisted my bars off centre and 1 brake lever upwards whilst removing some metal from caliper, They do not slip down nor get too hot and keep the knees warm in cold coditions, i bought mine a large size after measuring the knee and the fit is good

I concur with this review, apart from I went a size up from what they recommended and they fit better as original size recommended made my feet numb after 30mins of use.

G-FORM right?

They come in all black now too I believe.

Yep, got the black ones in October/November from their website.

Can they be cleaned easily or put in the washing machine?

are they better than 661’s then?

+1 on needing to size up
+1 on them being very good

I also have 661 Evo’s and the g-forms are much more comfy. Washing is a doddle to, I stick them in at 40c (with the rest of my kit) and they come out looking like new (I checked with g-form and they said there’s nothing to worry about with washing them, just don’t tumble dry :p ).

Has anybody seen the black ones on sale anywhere yet?

black elbow and knee in stock

So I am bang in the middle of the size range for large. Should I STILL size up to XL?

Budgie not only are TBC cheaper than Gform themselves they have an extra 10% STW code, STWTBC, which I assume still works.

how would they cope against pedal pins?

the padding is about 10/12mm thick you would need to be using some pretty long pins to reach your skin through the padding but the lyrca would stop bu@@er all

I would size up as I was in the middle of medium. The problem is the elastic on the lycra edges is to tight so your feet will go numb but if you have really skinny legs then you will be ok as my legs are normal and no way considered big and I had to size up.

thanks ruscle, guess I’ll size up to XL, just wanted to check it wasnt only people right on the limit that sized up.. I’m a skinny whippet so even the idea of needing large is ridiculous…

just ordered XL, £33 posted from TBC using their code, fantastic given most thixotropic armour is twice that.

what code crashtestmonkey?

Definitely size up. I would have been a Medium according to the measurements on the G-Form website but I was in at thebikechain and was able to try them on. For me, the “correct” size was too tight on thighs and biceps.

Vortexracing – you have email

Cheers Mustard, that’s mustard!

Crashtestmonkey – Thanks for the heads up on that code.
My mate has been using the yellow ones for months now and really rates them.

the padding is about 10/12mm thick you would need to be using some pretty long pins to reach your skin

i was thinking more about the pins punching holes in the padding…?

Vortex, code is in my earlier post, and as TBC posted it themselves in a previous Gform thread I didn’t think it was secret!

There are two TBC codes. STW Premier members get an extra discount (though I don’t know which one was previously posted).

Edit: Just checked and it was the normal code STWTBC that was posted…..

Ordered Thursday, delivered Friday 8)

sized up and got the XL. they felt loose so are going back for exchange to large, hope they dont cut my blood supply off….