I would run these for sure if I rode regularly at Inners or the Golfie, Neil!
That sounds like a nasty injury. Of course it's possible or even likely that a hard end would have made it worse, and I'd only be speculating here, but at least the pointy bit on the CPs is turned inward, so might be less likely to be the part that you come into contact with in a crash.
It'd be hard to convince of anything other than what's in the back of your mind, so I won't try, but I have crashed and been struck by so many parts of my bikes that I can't worry about any specific part of them - they will all do real damage if they catch you the wrong way. It seems like that happened far more often when we rode heavier bikes, but I bet it also has to do with being clipped in, heavy bikes, AND the fact that older geometry made it more likely we'd crash OTB and those are the ones I remember where I'd hit the ground and then reflexively cover my head because I just knew the bike was about to come tomahawking down on me.
Anyway, squeezing between trees happens a lot, so to me that's a more pressing concern, but grapefruit-sized bruises are no joke!
July 13, 2022, 3 p.m. - Pete Roggeman
I would run these for sure if I rode regularly at Inners or the Golfie, Neil! That sounds like a nasty injury. Of course it's possible or even likely that a hard end would have made it worse, and I'd only be speculating here, but at least the pointy bit on the CPs is turned inward, so might be less likely to be the part that you come into contact with in a crash. It'd be hard to convince of anything other than what's in the back of your mind, so I won't try, but I have crashed and been struck by so many parts of my bikes that I can't worry about any specific part of them - they will all do real damage if they catch you the wrong way. It seems like that happened far more often when we rode heavier bikes, but I bet it also has to do with being clipped in, heavy bikes, AND the fact that older geometry made it more likely we'd crash OTB and those are the ones I remember where I'd hit the ground and then reflexively cover my head because I just knew the bike was about to come tomahawking down on me. Anyway, squeezing between trees happens a lot, so to me that's a more pressing concern, but grapefruit-sized bruises are no joke!