tholub said:I am finally trashing my Roach pads after this past weekend. I had
three falls involving my knees, and in two of them the Roach pads came
down and I took the fall on the kneecap. A lot of people have problems
with the Roach pads not staying up when you need them to.
I liked the design of the KH armor, but if it's not available I'll go
with the 661, which seems to stay further up the leg than the Roach
armor.
The trick with the leg armour is to get it long enough so it can't
slide down the leg. Ideally it should be long enough so that when it
slides down to the top of your shoe your knee is still covered. People
with long legs will have problems with that. Back when Roach was
making custom armour you could get them to make an extra long set of
leg armour. That was nice.
The large 661 has been long enough for me. A little longer would be
better, but it works as is.
The problem with fabric style armour is that fabric grips the ground
when you crash. It wants to pull the armour down your leg during a
crash instead of sliding on the ground. Armour with a hard plastic
outer cap on the knee will tend to slide on the ground instead of
gripping the ground. In that way the armour styles with the outer
plastic caps are better.
For the 661/Roach/etc. style armour you may need to tighten it rather
tightly around your calf to keep it from sliding down.
One other thing you can try is cutting the toe end from a sock, rolling
up the sock and wear it like an ankle bracelet. That will create a
sort of stop above your shoe to help keep the armour from sliding down
so far.
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