Dainese 3x Knee Guard and Performance Elbow Guards

While I freely adjudge to existence a rank fan pupil for Dainese’s gloves, their ginglymus and articulatio endorsement guards water under more scrutiny.  This mart is highly supersaturated and there are some dustlike ginglymus and articulatio guards for us riders to opt from.  So what does Dainese have on the competition?

Well for starters the accomplishment of the 3x Knee and Performance Elbow Guards are crowning notch.  Stitching is rattling tight, nothing feels lax or skimpy, and everything seems to sound meet right.   Dainese equipment is famous for their breath-ability and perforation, and the new versions of these pads don’t disappointed in that category.  Having touched downbound from NorCal to the sweltering heat SoCal I was rattling thankful for ginglymus and articulatio guards that didn’t intend itchy or hot and stimulative while sessioning the topical doubles or running quick shuttles.

And patch I mainly mate DH I do sometimes have to push or tone my beast.  The 3x Knee protect never slipped downbound or shifted discover of locate patch doing these miserable task.  Taking hornlike hits or getting finished a sway garden same a epileptic downhiller on a pogo stick, neither the ginglymus or articulatio pads slid discover of place.  No matter how greasy I was.

Both pads ingest an articulated joint for maximum flexibility and hard plastic plates (CE EN 1621.1 homologation) with 3 independent fitting straps and ‘hyper-ventilated fleecy padding’.   In fact there are so some expose refresh holes in the plastic plates it puts that Stan Sealant pass ring to shame.

So is there some intense programme with these?  Well, yes and no.  First soured they are costly.  At $89 for the 3x Knee Guards and about $80 for the Performance Elbow Guard.  Oach. But that isn’t the only issue.  While I didn’t encounter some imperfectness with the Performance Elbow Guard, I can encounter some issues with the 3x Knee Guard.

First soured the sides of the articulatio aren’t rattling substantially protected.  I’ve crashed some a time, and rattling the only locate that nearly never ever intend hit is the rattling backwards of the knee.  Everything is a target, and thusly must be fortified to some extent.  And I conceive Dainese could do a taste more to counterbalance the sides.  Stopping an inch on either lateral after the articulatio caps isn’t enough.  Plus, and patch this never happened to me patch attractive a digger, and this apparently isn’t meet an supply for these portion articulatio pads, the design of the 3x, the joint that articulates, rattling opens up the possibility of the pads sliding downbound if digit puts a articulatio downbound patch riding.  Say around digit of those dry detritus bins NorthStar calls ‘berms’ on Livewire.  The difficulty is the hornlike aggrandize that covers the handicap above the articulatio is behindhand the articulatio container hornlike plate.  So when you curve your knees the articulatio container plate juts discover and up, same a spoon, meet noisy to be fed a sccoop flooded of dirt, to dig correct into same a containerful in a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, but this would attain the aggrandize motion correct downbound your leg.

And same I said, it didn’t hap to me patch road, I end up feat over the bars more than anything else, nor did it hap to Gregg when he reviewed the 3x Knee protect a couple eld back.  But I’m still hesitant.

The Performance Elbow protect though is missile proof.  While it doesn’t modify downbound the flooded length of the forearm, which is dustlike by me, I normally don’t even mate with ginglymus guards, it does modify downbound about 3/4 of the way.  More than sufficiency really.  Same with the 3x Knee guard.  It extends downbound to meet above the ankle and offers ample shin protection.

If digit wants a taste more shin and ankle endorsement digit could procure themselves a unify of the Dainese ankle protectors.  I never thought much about this type of endorsement in the past, but after attractive my frame direct on my ankle, patch act these, I’m a convert.  Even when I am act meet articulatio pads same the 661 Evo or the Rockgardn NEO pads, I’m feat to ever be rocking a ordered of these ankle pads.  Combined though with the 3x Knee guards and digit has nearly rank coverage of their exposed and huffy shins while maintaining a beatific turn of mobility.

The strap that goes downbound around the measure can’t rattling be felt, so it doesn’t pain patch riding.  And the lively at the crowning is bonded sufficiency the ankle aggrandize tends to stay correct in locate and not motion down.

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