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Brief review of cramster knee guard
Its quiet recent that I purchased my Cramster Bionic Knee Guard. I'll just present here a brief review on it.
My daily ride is two hours (both ways) covering a distance of approx. 66kms. I have worn the guard both inside and outside my trouser. The guard has a hard outer body and a softer inner paddings. I had to remove a portion of the borders that lines the inner pads as they were scraping against my knees when worn inside my trousers. Once this small modification was done, there is no more problem. I find it more comfortable to wear them outside my trousers because in Mumbai heat, my legs start sweating and the guard materials are not sweat absorbant and become somewhat unpleasant.
I still have yet to do some modification as I cannot fathom why cramster decided to make one of the straps fixed, meaning one of the strap cannot be unfasten. You can only tighten/loosen. The other two straps can be unfasten via velcro. This make it inconvenient to put or remove them. I have to remove my shoes and slide the guard all the way from my toes to my knees and the same while removing. Of course one can do that without removing shoes, but this will stretch the elastics considerably. So most time I simply wear them and remove them from inside office/home. This makes me kind of stupid when people stare at me walking like "robot-cop"
. I've still yet to get used to the stares.
So my next modification will be to make that strap unfasten so that I can simply remove them as soon as I get down from the bike.
There were reports of guard scraping the tank when worn outside the trousers. I hand no such issues as already mentioned couple of posts back and has already suggested why they may not be scraping my tank in my case. Though I intend to cut piece of tyre tube to exact size of the aluminium pivots, and paste them on it with glue as a precautionary measure. This will prevent any chance of the aluminium pivot rubbing against my tank.
Interestingly, the knee guard can be worn as elbow guard as well
.
Its quiet recent that I purchased my Cramster Bionic Knee Guard. I'll just present here a brief review on it.
My daily ride is two hours (both ways) covering a distance of approx. 66kms. I have worn the guard both inside and outside my trouser. The guard has a hard outer body and a softer inner paddings. I had to remove a portion of the borders that lines the inner pads as they were scraping against my knees when worn inside my trousers. Once this small modification was done, there is no more problem. I find it more comfortable to wear them outside my trousers because in Mumbai heat, my legs start sweating and the guard materials are not sweat absorbant and become somewhat unpleasant.
I still have yet to do some modification as I cannot fathom why cramster decided to make one of the straps fixed, meaning one of the strap cannot be unfasten. You can only tighten/loosen. The other two straps can be unfasten via velcro. This make it inconvenient to put or remove them. I have to remove my shoes and slide the guard all the way from my toes to my knees and the same while removing. Of course one can do that without removing shoes, but this will stretch the elastics considerably. So most time I simply wear them and remove them from inside office/home. This makes me kind of stupid when people stare at me walking like "robot-cop"
. I've still yet to get used to the stares.So my next modification will be to make that strap unfasten so that I can simply remove them as soon as I get down from the bike.
There were reports of guard scraping the tank when worn outside the trousers. I hand no such issues as already mentioned couple of posts back and has already suggested why they may not be scraping my tank in my case. Though I intend to cut piece of tyre tube to exact size of the aluminium pivots, and paste them on it with glue as a precautionary measure. This will prevent any chance of the aluminium pivot rubbing against my tank.
Interestingly, the knee guard can be worn as elbow guard as well
.
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