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Min distance was 30 feet or you were in trouble, it's a 30 foot gap. Folks were clearing significantly beyond that though, even after the takeoff was removed!
That's the wrong Moelfre. This Moelfre is in Mid wales, a few miles down the road from Oswestry. It even has a Shropshire postcode.
It was the English Championships, the Welsh championships were a few months ago at Caersws.
I cannot encourage people to use these enough. I fell off whilst wearing this product and didn't die or have to use a straw to eat my meals for the rest of my life. Someone a friend heard about from a guy on the internet had a crash and he wasn't wearing a L33T carbotanium brace, and now he's a roboplegic-wrongcock.
I hope, for the sake of racing, that these devices never become compulsory. I'm sure they offer protection, and I'm sure many people will say that they either owe their necks to it, or "would have been saved if only they were wearing one".
I don't want to make the morbid leap of saying "Hmm, I might break my neck today riding my bike, let's get the Leatt out". Equally, I don't want to put on a peice of equipment that increases my chances of Clavicle injury more than it decreases the chance of neck injury.
There is plenty of evidence that full face helmets and pads prevent injury in downhill MTB crashes. The evidence that Leatt neck braces don't do more damage than they prevent is not yet conclusive, and I should hope that the organisers of competitions base compulsory equipment requirements on evidence and not marketing.
Leatt had a very "lucky break" (if you can excuse the unintentional pun) with their introduction to MTB sport, with three or four high profile neck injuries within a very short time.
Si, with your position as both a main seller of the products, and as a BC commisarre and as the organiser of the UK's National Points Series, I think it would be wholly inappropriate and a massive conflict of interests for you to decide upon, or even push in one direction the decision on whether these devices are made compulsory in British racing.
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Dec 31, 2009 at 11:11