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Originally Posted by Sean
From what I read / hear from experienced dirt riders, no hinge = better. If there's a hinge, it's solid in other directions, so lateral force is all concentrated on the knee in a fall. If there's no hinge, there's slight to moderate movement allowed in all directions. In dirt, hinge = knee stress in a fall.
That being said I've never crashed a street bike (knock on wood!) so I have no idea of the physics of it.
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It's solid in the left-to-right direction so your ankle can't twist. I don't see how that can possibly be viewed as a bad thing. Unless I'm really reading this wrong, I don't see how it can be correct... that preventing your foot from twisting will put stress on your knee?
When I hit the deck at VIR at 100+ and slid out into the grass, I'm pretty sure a boot without the brace would've allowed the ground to twist my ankle all sorts of uncomfortable directions.
01-08-2010, 02:18 PM
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