[Jeff Williams]

I've tried to stay out of this because having seen people,(friends), put into wheelchairs from less than 20 feet away and personally breaking my back 4 times, being in a wheel chair for 2 days changes your opinion whats safe from racers and what if.
I feel, knowing Brads background,(as other do), that the Dr. would not put his rep and feelings on a product he didn't feel would not help. But IMO Brad has not depth,as some on this board so, when dealing with people that are not professional racers or in the industry. We as riders gain most of our tech advancement from R&D based from racing. This trickles down over time to us and gives us better shocks, cams tires and clothing. Brad is on the leading edge of R&D and racing. This means that we are hearing something that most riders will gleam in 6 months or 3 years, whatever. The point is that he doesn't usually talk with outsiders who don't know how it works, so its hard,IMO, for him to understand why anyone would want to expound graphs and studies that are not revelant to guys who race, or run the canyons at high speeds. They both crash, they both end in the dirt, they both hit rocks, hills, and poles. The fact that within the last six weeks three pro racers profess to have,(and everone else who saw it), been saved from a wheelchair by the brace means something. One was an up and coming 12 year old who races with the big boys and has already signed for a factory ride for when he turns 16. He missed a triple and stuck the front wheel in the side of the third jump, planted his head at the top and augered in. He his so hard that he broke his helmet, brace, and shoulder pads. They black flagged him, even though he said he was ok. They MRIed him and he was perfect, nothing broken. The Doc, who works at all the pro races for years said he was amazed because he had never seen such a bad crash and yet the rider got up and rode away.
Enough said,
Buy it or don't it doesn't matter because it is your own choice.

I usually don't do this but this thread just got the best of me.... Roger please kill this thread because it doesn't matter anymore.
jeff