Steps to 10 year old knee pads. Not sure how important each of these steps are.
1 - Don't crash onto your knees.
2 - Wash them. Once per year. No more, no less.
3 - Don't wear them around your ankles on the ride up.
4 - Don't wear them at all on the ride up. I think this really controls the amount of funk that they build up.
I also purchased these pads almost immediately before I stopped riding in bike parks. So when you think about 10 years of strapping pads on for 20 minutes of downhilling a couple of times per week, it's actually not a whole lot of wear. So, really, it's all down to Enduro that these things lasted so long.
Oct. 1, 2019, 4:38 p.m. - Dave Tolnai
Steps to 10 year old knee pads. Not sure how important each of these steps are. 1 - Don't crash onto your knees. 2 - Wash them. Once per year. No more, no less. 3 - Don't wear them around your ankles on the ride up. 4 - Don't wear them at all on the ride up. I think this really controls the amount of funk that they build up. I also purchased these pads almost immediately before I stopped riding in bike parks. So when you think about 10 years of strapping pads on for 20 minutes of downhilling a couple of times per week, it's actually not a whole lot of wear. So, really, it's all down to Enduro that these things lasted so long.