[Closed] I'm going to need some shin pads

Clips? 😉

5 stitches holding everything together. Definitely going to need to protect this for further riding!

i had a conversation with somebody this week who needed stitches from a pedal strike, I said I thought they rode clipped in, turns out they were, so not exclusively a flats issue.

I use some six-six-one hardshell knee/shin pads when jumping. Even if this heat. Don't normally hit my shin but the last time I decided not to wear them - guess what? I tore open my shin pretty badly.

I prefer the knee/shinguard combo as my knees are pretty fubar'd and everytime they get a knock the left one swells up like buggery and can't bend for a week.

Dainese ones should surely be on the list and by that I mean the hard shell ones not slimmer down trail skins version.

5 stitches

pffft

however, footy shin pads are cheap, lightish, coolish and non-restricting

Fuse

i have some 661 hard shell ones that protect my knees and shins. The fronts of them have some really mega gouges which would definately have made my shins v v sore. They are white and look a bit Imperial Stormtrooper, but its a look im prepared to tolerate.

The Vault pins are pretty viscious and i tend to risk manage now, and view the minor discomfort as worth it vs not riding for a while.

I saw someone riding along today using cricket pads - might be a bit hot mind!

Yeah that's pretty much what the Dainese feel like in a way except lighter, breathable - errrrr no

Save money by Gaffa taping your feet to the pedals.  *

[small] * don't do this [/small]

If you're not going to use them after your shin heals then footy shin pads will sort you for about 1/4 the cost of biking ones. They're less 'nice' but not 1/4 as nice.

Not the question you asked (this is STW!) but I used to be an expert at this. Then I spent a day with Jedi and in the last 3 years not a single incident. The solution - changed the angle of my brake levers. Yes, really!

Theory goes like this - with your levers pointed towards the ground when you take a big hit your wrists break into flexion and your weight goes over the front of the bars and leaves your feet. With your feet unweighted there is much more chance of them separating from the pedal. With your levers more horizontal when you take a hit your wrists go into extension and your weight sinks down behind the bars into the bike, your feet get loaded and your pedals stay where they are meant to be.

It genuinely works. I move my levers about 15mm at the tips and a transformation.

Cheers peeps. I'll take a look at those options. Definitely like the idea of an all in one knee pad & shin.

I think I'll probably keep using shin pads for dirt jumps, especially while I'm still very much a learner!

I agree on the brake levers. I've seen Tony a couple of times. To be honest, on the DJ bike I'm no where near the brake anyway. Nothing good happens in dirt jumps when covering the brake!

I've got some ~12 year old fox knee/shin jobbies that I've not used in a loooong time. They provided excellent shin protection, but pretty much useless knee protection as the pad/cup over the cap tended to ride down during a ride. As a result I now sport a lovely scar just above my left kneecap and only really bother with knee pads (clipped in). They really needed something like the old "padlock" sleeve or something to keep them in position...

Anyway I suppose what I'm saying is, if you take up extra shin protection, don't compromise your knee protection, separate pads might look a little odd but probably make better anatomical sense.

Shorter pedal pins, softer shoes and MTFU would be my advice. Shinbone shenanigans are par for the course when dirt jumping. Think of them as a badge of honour that you display with pride rather than something to be covered and protected 😀

I had a set of those shin/knee Dianese jobbies for DH. So hot and uncomfortable that the best bit of a ride was taking those buggers off after. They were good at saving your shin but the knee portion wasn't great in a crash and always moved on impact. I'd follow Cookeaa's advice and go separate

2 votes for separate then. I think I'll just try a few options and see what fits.