The way I see the armor issue is this.bmgibben wrote:I almost completely unworried about the kevlar holding up in a slide. The maker of Draggin Jeans lab tested during development by being dragged behind a truck on pavement, sitting on the ground in them. So I would assume in the high kevlar areas it has at least a decent chance of holding up. My worry is more the rest of the denim (thick as it is) holding up in the areas other than the seat and knee.
The thing I am worried most about is the impact. The knox knee armor should do its job there, but what about the most crucial joint south of the navel? The pelvis? Ive done very little research on the armor provided by pants, just recently thinking about them, but how dangerous is it not having armor protecting the side of the hip from impact forces? Is this a rare occurance in a crash, or does most of the pant armor just not have this? Is it only some of that specialty armor that has protection for this? Or is it not deemed as important in a crash? Thanks for all the input.
Some padding might protect you from breaking a bone. Broken bones aren't a very big deal to me. They heal. It's not a big enough concern to me to warrant wearing some uncomfortable padding all the time.
If the impact is large enough to break many bones or cause severe skeletal issues, then the little bit of padding you find in motorcycle armor is not going to prevent any significant part of that injury. If I slam my knee into a lamppost hard enough to shatter my patella and break my femur, those bones are going to break anyway if I'm wearing some 1/4" foam padding.
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