Surfriding Why do people ride with out chin pads?

[bsc702]

Can some one please tell me what is so cool about riding without a chin pad, whether surf riding or freestyle. Whats the deal??????

 

[zimmy]

You don't have to worry about your chin pad ripping off maybe? I think it looks cool depending on the style of pole, kinda like the streetfighter look.

 

[JT_Freeride]

Because the weather was beautiful or the waves were great that day. It's an addiction man a broken chinpad isnt gonna stop me from riding.

 

[rhugo21]

i think it's dumb and asking for f'd up teeth, mouth, nose etc.

 

[bsc702]

Your asking for a cracked skull and broken jaw riding without one, even with a helmet it is sketchy. I have smashed my shoulder doing a re-entry on my installed pad and i thought i broke it, imagine no pad ouch!

 

[JT_Freeride]

I bashed my eye and nose on the bars. My eye hit the start stop and my nose got cut up from the pad.

 

[MCrider]

For a while I thought it was because people were running rrp steering on x metal poles and the supplied chinpad wouldn't fit over the steering. I have no idea if that's the case though.

 

[user_error]

DIY jaw reconstructive surgury

 

[eastcoastjumper]

For a while I thought it was because people were running rrp steering on x metal poles and the supplied chinpad wouldn't fit over the steering. I have no idea if that's the case though.

All you have to do is find an aluminum spacer, a longer bolt, and a little shaving to make it all fit. I didnt have a problem doing it to my x metal pole w/ rrp steering/riser bars.

 

[SUPERJET-113]

I like my OEM teeth...haha

 

[j0hnny]

Because i was testing multiple setups and didnt want to make a chin pad until everything else was finalized

 

[N3vrSat1sfied]

 

[WILKEY]

If you can build a jet ski but can't install a chinpad... you might be a redneck.

 

[FlightPlanDan]

Mounting the rubber chicken is easier without a chinpad.
http://www.x-h2o.com/index.php?threads/secret-spot-sunday-12-13-09.67644/
Chicken shows up around 1:29

 

[j0hnny]

because it looks more like a bmx bike without one???

 

[MCrider]

I never understood it but I rode my ski all last summer with out one. I didn't mount mine because its a piece of garbage and doesn't line up with the mounting holes on the pole and I'm pretty sure it's one thin layer of glass.... I need to reinforce it and turf it and just throw it on so I don't smash my teeth.

 

[Byeai]

It's a florida thing i put one on just to hush everyone is hard to find a pad to fit a titan pole nicely

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[KTM434]

@JetManiac

 

[bird]

because the OEM yamaha's are crap, and an RRP one costs $150 used $300 new.

In all my balls to the wall riding I can only remember my face coming close to the Chin pad a few times. My knees have hit the bar area WAY more than my face

That being said, I rode without one because I couldn't find a used one in matching color. Got it now!

 

[bsc702]

It only takes one good hit and you people will install a pad ..........its only a matter of time. Come and ride some big (cold year round not just winter) California surf and you will want all the protection you can buy.