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“Why the hell am I not wearing hockey equipment?” – pro rider calls for safety gear at Tour de France (www.bikeradar.com)
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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Some people used to laugh that I wore JoeRocket motorcycle gloves for my bicycle commute to work, and in colder weather I would don large leather motorcycle pants. (And low friction shorts over top because seat leather on pant leather is horrible)

But they work and after a high side flip turning downhill, it was the gloves ruined and not my hands.

And the motorcycle pants had thick hip padding.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Good call on the gloves, I took that same downhill header and broke both my hands, a bunch of fingers, and lost a lot of skin. Highly recommend motorcycle gloves if you're planning to go fast

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Or just MTB gloves. I don't leave home without those on bicycle