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Originally Posted by license2ill
It's priced competitively, but the same issues apply to all Knox products as written about their back protectors in a previous post above. Here's some more thoughts on the currently available pieces calling themselves chest protectors:
In terms of protection it's not capable of much, but I suppose it's better than buying a non-CE-approved piece. It's rated to the back protector standard as a level 1 passing lumbar protector. I don't know what the sizing guidelines are for lumbar protectors. If you want real impact protection in a piece that covers the chest, you gotta step into the bulkier vests made for horse riding. The difference is 4 times less force making it's way to your ribs, and that's at the level at which those forces cause damage. If you look at it in scientific terms, the Knox and any other similar piece are likely going to be irrelevant in crashes of similar severities to that used in the CE test for mc impact protectors(50J). The force levels allowed by the horse rider vests is 4kN. I don't have specific numbers for the Knox piece being sold as a chest protector, but Davies O'Dell(T-Pro Forecfield) reported a pass of 15.8kN for their chest piece. 4kN is said by medical experts to be enough to break ribs.
It's a hard call, because we need the market for these pieces to get better, but none of the current best pieces are very relevant to your hopes or expectations.
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What is the CE standards for motorcycle chest protector?
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