suzukidave

also in my many years of mx, I saw tons of broken collarbones long before neck braces were invented. Most common injury by far

I am 47, have raced dirt bikes all my life, ridden downhill for the last 10 years. Started wearing neck braces when they first showed up. My experience has been positive, I crashed off a jump in angel fire bike park, broke the brace, my helmet, broke my collarbone and four ribs. Crashed my dirtbike on a mx track off a large jump and broke the helmet and neckbrace, walked away with a hole in my hand. Was following my buddy in whistler, down dirt merchant and he endoed off a jump, landed face first, scorpion style and broke the back of the neck brace, walked away. Same guy, riding dirtbikes similiar situation, no neck brace, Broke his neck-luckily he is ok. I think the neck brace may have broke my collarbone, it does restrict movement to a small degree, but i believe it works. I own a motorcycle dealership, and I have also heard many times how helmets break your collarbone from a certain group of riders. As far as professional racers go, I think they will risk their health to get that small edge. I used to wear knee braces when I raced mx, but stopped because i couldnt feel the bike and as a result I crashed more. The lesser of two evils.