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Can someone recommend a good (cheap) online retailer for Dianese?

thanks

You'll need more than that mate.
kneedraggers.com

Dainese is good, but never cheap. For what is apparently a very good jacket at a substantially lower cost, though, you might look into Velocity Gear.

I agree. Velocity's jacket kicks ass... I've found myself at times forgetting that I'm even wearing it, until I'm at a gas station on the way home from a jump.

According to their website, it's rated higher than dianese too... the spine protector far exceeds the CE Level 2 standards (or so they say?)

I got mine for $129... much better than being forced to star in gay porn films in order to afford dianese (and then your still mostly paying for the name...)

http://www.dainese.com/...amp;articolo=1875796

Check out the neck protector on this thing and (please) answer me the following:

1. Will it help prevent a neck injury other than a pointy rock hitting you in the back of the neck? IN other words: does it support your neck to prevent you from breaking it?

2. Is there any chance of a bridle/pc entangling with this thing?

I'm not sure if the questions are directed at me, but just in case, here goes:

1. I don't know. I'm not a designer of personal protection, but it looks like it could be beneficial, except it might not make it very easy to look up, or to arch.

2. Doesn't look like it... It seems like the bottom edge of the spine protectors on these types of jackets are more likely to cause bridle entanglements than this neck protector. If your worried, then just wear a hoodie over it with the hood over your head?

if you choosing a armorjacket it`s important that it will fits into the rig..a jacket with lots of plastic will build alot...and you probably have to buy new a rig for using all that armor...i have a friend who using this velocity armorjacket...sure it gives good protection and the price is better than dainese ..but the dainese jacket are more "slimmer" than velocity`s..i using a dainese jacket with protection for back/elbow and shoulders...but not on my chest, i only have one rig. But i jump that rig with and without this jacket and i don`t feel much different in the fit...it`s tighter with the jacket but not much..
I only wearing this jacket for lowjump..i also wearing a bodyshort(strapped over my legstrap) and long knepads..and of course a helmet...

PS: this isn`t about i`m right your wrong...there`s lot of good protection out there.. most of them are cheaper than dainese..but some times cheap is not the best..

I suggest to use a long sleeve jersey, sweatshirt , or t shirt over any armor that you jump.

They do have many places that a bridle could get trapped especially if doing aerials or if you open in a weird position. Lately there has been some briddle entanglements leading to deaths.

my 2 pesos

I definitely agree. I've seen entanglements with the armor, and it isn't pretty. Anything you can do to minimize entanglement potential seems like a good idea to me.


Neil, I got my Dainese armor (top and bottom) for about US$200, by just waiting until I found it on close out at some random internet site.

Is Dainese body armour reasonably unisex in fit? It claims to be, but I can see a few places where fit would be problematic for those of various proportions. What is the range of adjustability?

I don't really know.

My best advice is to go to a store that stocks a bunch of armor, and try on various pieces for yourself, evaluating fit, protection, etc. I found it helpful to take a rig and also look at how it changed the fit of the rig (and the location of the PC).

For what it's worth, my general impression has been that several other brands are at least as protective as the Dianese, at a fraction of the cost. My personal favorite is probably Fox Racing, but I admit that I've got hundreds of times as many jumps in the Dianese, so it may just be that I've identified things I don't like about it, and haven't had a chance to get so nitty-gritty with any other set of armor.

Yes, I should have added that I haven't yet dragged myself to a skateboarding/motocross shop to look at and try on various models. I'll report back when I've done so, if I discover anything terribly interesting.

There's a Dainese store in Costa Mesa (Newport Beach area), CA.

. . . . .tons of options to chose from there.

Cheers,

JP

I have a Dainese vest with the neck protector. It has the honeycombed back protector, hard pads to either upper sides of the back protector for your shoulder blades, hard chest protection with some of the honeycomb stuff like the back protector, and the neck thing. It has no pads on the tops of the shoulders.

The neck thing made me feel stiff...like Frankenstein with a rig...so I removed it. Mine is incorporated into a neck sleeve on the vest, so I don't see it as any kind of entanglement hazard.

One thing I did notice. With the jackets etc with pads on top of the shoulders, it seemed like a PITA to reach overhead with a PACKED rig on my back. Then I went back to the store with an unpacked rig...with things looser it was much easier to simulate reaching for stuff overhead. So I'd reccomend trying on whatever you purchase with both a packed and unpacked rig to get a better idea of what your range in motion will truely be under canopy.

The North America D store is 2 minutes from my garage.

Neil ya big queen.
There's a bunch of motorcycle shops in Auckland that stock this stuff and their prices will be higher than online US stores but if you factor in shipping back to NZ you might just want to go for one of the local options.
Matt

Not to hijak but has anyone ever used these?

http://www.sixsixone.com/Catalog_661Bike.aspx?id=a9fc2642-7c61-44a1-9b87-c978ce9f925a&product=320c420e-9789-4296-a5d9-c9478f4b4880

http://www.sixsixone.com/...96-a5d9-c9478f4b4880

Why doesn't it have a plastic cup? Imagine being all suited up like a football player and having your unprotected machinery break your fall after a crashlanding on a fence/branch.

did you throw the hole tarp all over the floor in the store..??....hey, lets close the store.. we have a jumper who gonna try some armors here..