Onza bites man

Leg armor.

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I would buy leg guards. From the looks of your leg, those pedals are
keepers.

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Get leg guards and you won't regret it.

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Definately buy some leg guards. I highly recommend 661 4x4's, they WILL
save your shins. I agree with onetrack, judging from your scars, those
pedals are keepers!!!!!!!!!

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do 661 4x4s cover your entire leg, or just your shin? im sorta looking
for protection for my calves...they get beat up more than my shins. if i
only needed protection for my shins i could just use my soccer shin
guards. any suggestions for ones that go "all around" my leg?

-grant

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leg armor, duh. i have fox 911 knee/shin guards, nothing ever will fully
protect the calf, but the fox 911's have the thickest material in the
back. it will save you from a puncture just like the 661s.

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http://www.vsportgroup.com/gear/pads_veggieshin.html

http://www.vsportgroup.com/gear/pads_4x4.html

http://tinyurl.com/4dspq

i wonder which of the three provides best protection around the entire
leg? the veggieshin looks better than the 911 you suggested but its hard
to tell...i wonder if anyone knows from experience

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First off Clanger... Major Props for the great photo. Unlike other
recent threads with this same issue, you actually provided the photo we
all wanted to see! Personally I think you should continue w/o the
guards and provide us with many more great pictures. I gave the same
advice to Chirokid. I think pads are a waste of money. I told him to
use that money for a digital camera. SInce you get free healthcare over
there you are much better off financially just getting stitches as you
need them. I have to pay $75 for an emergency room visit, so the pads
were a better deal for me. If I could get free stitches though, I
wouldn't have bought any pads.

Grant, the second link is the pads I have. They do cover the back of
the leg with a tough mesh material. I have yet to get clawed through
them. I have been bruised through them, but they are just enough to
prevent most skin perferations. If the KH pads were available, I would
prefer them. Unfortunately they aren't. The 661's do the job though
just fine.

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I've been using the 661 veggies for about 6 months now and they are
excellent stopping any cuts/scratches and most bruises - although in
very hot conditions they can be a bit on the warm side(not that here in
the UK very hot conditions are a real problem) The fact that you can
wear them with seperate from the knee pads if required and they're fine
for putting through the washing machine as well made them a winner for
me - so definitely get some shin guards as they stop a whole world of
pain and i have found the veggies excellent

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bugman said:

*First off Clanger... Major Props for the great photo. Unlike other
recent threads with this same issue, you actually provided the photo
we all wanted to see! Personally I think you should continue w/o the
guards and provide us with many more great pictures. I gave the same
advice to Chirokid. I think pads are a waste of money. I told him to
use that money for a digital camera. SInce you get free healthcare
over there you are much better off financially just getting stitches
as you need them. I have to pay $75 for an emergency room visit, so
the pads were a better deal for me. If I could get free stitches
though, I wouldn't have bought any pads.*

Thanks for the advice Bugman, I know from previous threads how much my
fellow unicyclist value photographic evidence. I can only assume that
this is because we all want to understand the dangers so we can make the
sport safer, or perhaps we are just sickos wanting to see some gory
pics.

However, your analysis of the pads versus free health care misses out a
few important points. Service at UK hospitals is far from rapid, I had
to wait 2 hours to get my injury looked at and then it was a further 2
hours before they had stitched me up and said I could go home. Although
I believe that the more spectacular the injury the faster the service,
so perhaps I was not trying hard enough. The real problem though is
that now I have to rest my leg while the wound heals, so no more
unicycling for a week, this is a major blow to a newbie like me who
needs to keep practicing.

I will definately be investing in some body armour, up till now all I
have only been using my roller blade wrist guards, and that was only
after a backwards fall which injured damaged some tendons. The 661 gear
looks pretty good and not too expensive. I am sure the 4x4 knee/shin
pad would have saved me, not so sure about the Veggie.

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I just bought an Onza Muni and wimped out on the pedals after seeing
someone elses calf. Leg armour seems to be the only way to stay out of
accident and emergency.

661 4*4 seem to be a common recomendation especially as the Kris Holm
guards seem to be unavailable. Has anyone tried the Fox Racing
Northshore http://tinyurl.com/4n2y2 they appear to be a similar design
to KH and use balistic nylon.

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I use the 661 Veggies and I love them! I also have a pair of 661
shin/knees (not the 4x4s) and I use the Veggies way more. There are some
gaps on the calf, but whenever I've got caught, it's only been minor and
the material stopped the pins going too far. They're quite slim as well
so can fit under loose fitting trousers etc. Well worth the buy!
'Chainreactioncycles' (http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/) is a great
site for these things and has free delivery within the UK which is
always a bonus.

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Pedals with the pins are very good idea don't remove them you have
better grip. esspecialy when in the wet wether 🙂 I have 4x4 knee/shin
and there are very good. till now saved my legs two times. and another
think if you have only the protection on the knee it always goes of the
leg end slip down and its difficult to keep it on the place.... when you
have something like 4x4 you dont have that problem it's always on the
place...

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Pinned pedals are good, especially in combination with leg armour, but
the onza pedals are a bit silly. They have very long pins, so you get
great grip, but seeing as your foot only goes on the top of the pin, I
think you get a lot of extra gougeabiltity without any more grip than
other pinned pedals. It's probably not worth buying new pedals now, but
when the current pedals need replacing look at a set with smaller pins
(like the platform pedals sold by uni.com)

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I've noticed a difference in grip between the Azonic A-Frames and pedals
with short pins. Sometimes difficult to adjust your feet on the fly
though!

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For a cheap alternative, you can wear many soccer shin pads backwards
:-) Your shins won't be protected but the calves will be.

I've found most people tend to favour bashing either their shins OR
their calves. Shindentations hurt more, but calf tracks can result in
meatier looking injuries. I am a calf tracker so it was important to me
to find full surround leg armour.

Note many brands have only a light covering around the calf area. This
may actually be all you need as the calf muscles can cushion a blow, and
the material will help prevent the cat scratch effect. I wasn't willing
to risk this so went for a brand that has a full wrap around material
with cushioning on the calf.

I have Azonic leg armour which is full neoprene wrap around with hard
plastic shell over the knee and shin. It is extremely hot to wear
(thick wetsuit) but has saved my legs many times.

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Congradulations on your first calf-shredding. my third is healing
nicely. you can get some sixsixone 4x4's, they'll protect against every
lower leg injury (except inner knee frame hits.) otherwise, don't worry.
i've been hit in the shin so many time's i've developed a tolerance.
Unicycling is worth it, though

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Some good advice about shin/knee pads, but which are longest? I am 6ft
4, and don't want to find my new protection stops too short of my feet.

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peter.bier said:

*For a cheap alternative, you can wear many soccer shin pads backwards
:-) Your shins won't be protected but the calves will be.

I've found most people tend to favour bashing either their shins OR
their calves. *

I wear 661 4x4 + kick-boxing padding over them to protect backwards
this works very fine
I strap the back padding very low so as to protect my Achile's tendon
(which I broke with my KH saddle handle).

the overall look is not bad (the kick-boxing padding is red!)
(I just look like an eskimo going into a medieval war:p )

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