Is Body Armour and a Full-Face Helmet really necessary?
In our opinion, a chin-guard and arm / leg pads are worth wearing if you have them. The philosiphy is simple – if you fall off (and lets face it, you just never know when that might happen no matter how easy the trail) its going to hurt less if you are padded-up! Since we use the lifts to do most of the hard work for us, then its no real pain to wear/carry the armour, and it does help with confidence levels too. That way you can more freely enjoy the trails, with less worry about how much the gravel rash would sting if the worse was to happen! To put it in perspective, on xc-bias days we generally dump the full-face in favour of a half-lid, and leave the pads at home. The descents may be the same difficulty as before – but we ride them more slowly and more cautiously without the extra protection of the armour. If you dont want to invest (understandably), we can rent you a set for a few euros, just ask us at the start of your week in the resort. In summary, don’t be put off by our photo
