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10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle - S&D Motorcycles

Here we look at ten areas of your body that should be protected when astride a motorcycle.

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10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle - S&D Motorcycles

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  1. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle

  2. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle Riding a motorcycle is an experience that is second to none. You are sitting on a fast machine and moving at a rapid pace while your body is perilously close to the tarmac. This also introduces a fair element of risk and physical harm to motorcycle riding. The antidote to that is motorcycle armour. The best motorcycle armour reduces the risk of injury and death dramatically.  Here we look at ten areas of your body that should be protected when astride a motorcycle.

  3. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle 1) Elbows & Knees When you lean into a corner with your bike, your elbows and knees extend outwards and come really close to the pavement or tarmac. Even during an impact or when you tumble, Make sure the riding apparel you buy has specially reinforced zones for elbows and knees. Invest in a set of discrete elbow and knee armours and wear them under the apparel. This ensures you skid a greater distance before the tarmac tears through to your skin.

  4. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle 2) The Chest Unlike your back or neck, which need to be protected from bending, your chest needs to be shielded from the force of a direct impact.  The best motorcycle protective gear for the chest has enough padding underneath to distribute and dissipate the force of an impact. 

  5. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle 3) The Neck Did you know that the collarbone is the bone that’s broken most often in motorcycle accidents? Also known as the clavicle, the bone takes most of the impact when you push your arm out during a fall or when your shoulder rams into a car, street sign or tree. It’s in the latter scenario that a neck collar proves useful; it saves your clavicle from breaking because of direct impact. 

  6. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle 4) The Hands Your fingers are fragile. Even a small crash is enough to snap a finger or two.  Thankfully, gloves offering excellent finger protection are available across a wide price range The safety net offered by a good pair of gloves extends beyond the fingers and includes the palm area, knuckles, scaphoid, and if you opt for full-gauntlet gloves, even the wrist.

  7. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle 5) The Legs We’ve all seen (either in real life or on video) how a motorcycle rider goes airborne after a high-speed crash, their limbs flailing and snapping upon impact. Modern-day motorcycle armour for the lower body is made of abrasion-resistant material like thick leather, polyester or even Kevlar.

  8. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle 6) The Feet Nothing can divide a group of passionate motorcycle riders like the debate over armours. There are scores of riders who argue for Kevlar over leather as the ideal riding apparel material and vice versa. Boots made from good quality composite or plastic shells slide across the tarmac while keeping your feet safe and comfortable within a softer liner.

  9. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle 7) The Hips In the order of bones that break most often in motorcycle accidents, the hip follows the pelvis and the collarbone. Buy a riding pant that features either hip armour inserts or spaces where you can insert your own hip padding.

  10. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle 8) The Torso A jacket to protect various parts of the torso is the quintessential piece of motorcycle riding armour owned by every rider. Thick leather offers good resistance to abrasion while molecular armour is excellent at absorbing the forces of impact. 

  11. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle 9) The Back Most of the body areas we’ve talked about till now are capable of healing after a crash, with the appropriate medical attention of course. The spinal cord, however, is not that fortunate. The ideal torso armour should offer protection for the thoracic and cervical regions of your spine and generous amounts of rigidity to the back.

  12. 10 Areas of Your Body that Need Protection When Riding a Motorcycle 10) The Head The case for good-quality helmets does not need to be made anymore. You must wear one when on a motorcycle. Of all the fragile parts of your body, none is more so than your brain.  Whether you buy motorcycle helmets online or offline, remember to pick a high-quality helmet that adheres to safety standards like ECE, SHARP or SNELL.

  13. CONTACT US Telephone: 01277 374988 - 0784 004 6440 Email: info@sanddmotorcyclesltd.co.uk or info@sdmcs.co.uk Address: S&D Motorcycles, Unit C, Frieze Hall Farm, Coxtie Green Road, Brentwood, CM14 5RE www.sanddmotorcyclesltd.co.uk

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