Do wrap around handguards cause hand and/or arm injuries?

[NoFiddyPilot]

If you've been around TT for any length of time, you've probably seen the question posted, so I thought that we'd try a non-scientific member poll to see what the consensus is. Do wrap around handguards cause hand or arm injuries? Please vote on our poll (for fun). ?

 

 

[RickP]

You need to add one more selection. "I ride with handguards and they have saved me from countless injuries."

[darksidemxer]

No injuries from them but alot averted by them lol

[CR250_182]

Hand guards don't break wrists, people break wrists.

[MotoAddict530]

Skip to 8:10 and you will see why I will never ride trails without my wrap around hand guards. They have saved me from broken fingers and I have never had a broken wrist from them or any other injury.

 

[CRFRida1605]

Ive seen it almost happen, honestly he shouldve broken his wrist. The front tire came down on a root or something off a small jump on a trail, his hands slipped off the bars and his left hand ended up inside the handguard. We were going slow so he just kind of flipped over the bars and landed right there, if we were going any faster I can see how it could have easily broken something if the bike flipped even one time or something.

I still use wrap arounds and so does he.

[LiamRM212]

If you know when to bail...

[The Spanky]

The funny thing about this topic is that you frequently see people post that they will never use wrap-arounds because of the risk of arm/wrist injury, but not once have I ever seen anybody say that they were actually injured or know someone that was injured by them. I'm sure there has probably been someone somewhere that has had one of those freak one-in-a-million crashes were they got their arm caught in the guard and was injured, but I've certainly never had any first-hand knowledge of such a thing happening.

 

Like others have said, when I still rode woods they certainly saved my fingers on many occasions, not to mention saving my levers in crashes.

Edited May 21, 2015 by Chokey

[LiamRM212]

Like others have said, when I still rode woods they certainly saved my fingers on many occasions, not to mention saving my levers in crashes.

Yeah I bounce off trees like nothing? the acerbis logo is off on both sides now? but my buddy hit a tree the other day and it locked his front brake and actually tossed him over the bars?

[The Spanky]

Yeah I bounce off trees like nothing? the acerbis logo is off on both sides now? but my buddy hit a tree the other day and it locked his front brake and actually tossed him over the bars?

 

 

He's lucky it was the brake lever, they won't go all the way to the bars, or will at least have resistance to doing so. If the tree had been on the other side it would have been the clutch lever getting smashed into his fingers.

[LiamRM212]

He's lucky it was the brake lever, they won't go all the way to the bars, or will at least have resistance to doing so. If the tree had been on the other side it would have been the clutch lever getting smashed into his fingers.

That's why I got my hand guards? fastest I've ever flipped a bike in my life? it was a small bendy tree

[dirtslayer]

I have cheap Chinese acerbis knock offs and they have saved my hands more times than I can count, in a fine finish carpenter not have the use of a hand would wreck me, can't imagine riding without them

[The Spanky]

That's why I got my hand guards? fastest I've ever flipped a bike in my life? it was a small bendy tree

 

 

Ain't it amazing how fast trees can move? Those suckers can jump in front of you so fast you never even see them move until it's too late...?

[BOAB]

My supremely mad skilz prevent me from ever needing them, I avoid trees like Luke Skywalker flying in Star Wars. ?

[DR.billZ]

Where is the poll?

[The Spanky]

Where is the poll?

You can't see polls on the mobile app.

[Confederate]

I broke the bone on the outside of my right hand on the bark buster while trying to hang on while falling of the side when I bottomed the frame on a large tree crossing. Heard it snap. That being said I ride no bike in the woods without full wrap guards. I have had many occasions I would have smashed all four fingers beyond recognition if it had not been for them.

[bhab]

 

 

My hand was fine.  Won't ride without them.

[MotoAddict530]

My supremely mad skilz prevent me from ever needing them, I avoid trees like Luke Skywalker flying in Star Wars. ?

 

I wish the force was strong with me, until then I will bash trees with my hand guards ON lol

[MotoAddict530]

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My hand was fine.  Won't ride without them.

 

Your hand was fine but how was the rest of you lol, you must have hit that thing hard to snap that hand guard!