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Where can I get a backbrace that covers and protects the whole back for sports/riding?

July 30th, 2007
cross country mountain biking
Kate-Ann asked:


I love to watch Amazing Videos on the Spike channel.The other day they showed a young lady who is into bike racing on motor bikes.She made the turn and she fell.She was trying to get up when a man ran into her back and went flying.The doctors said if it wasn’t for that back brace she was wearing, she would have been paralyzed.She showed the brace.It had rigged cushions and covered her back.I want to get back into mountain biking and I want to get into snowbiking,snow boarding,cross country skiing, ice skating,etc and I want my back to be protected.One of my biggest fears is having an accident and becoming paralyzed. Now that I know there are back braces like she was wearing that protects against that, I want one and I will be able to ride and skate without fear of falling and becoming paralyzed.I can go horseback riding without freaking out like at my last family reunion.I kept asking are the horses going to throw me off like what happened to Christopher Reeve.My relatives laughed.
I was so scared.Then the horse accidently went into a slight hole and I felt the slight tilt and panicked.Mind you all the rancher lead the horse around the pen while I was riding, but I was so scared that the horse was going to jump or buck.LOL. I need a backbrace that covers the whole back like what the young lady had on.I want to protect myself from getting paralyzed if I fall while doing sports. I want to learn how to ice skate and I will need that back brace.This will be my first time doing this.I just want to protect my back while doing sports.Like that man told the lady if it wasn’t for her wearing that back brace she would have been paralyzed.

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Carbon fiber handlebars for mountain biking?

July 25th, 2007
mountain biking
Rong R asked:


I’m looking for some carbon bars that are geared towards mountain biking, but stronger than XC carbon bars.

I know of the easton dh handlebar. What others are available?

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