Staying safe
Well I finally decided to invest in some body armor. It's been some time since I had my crash in which I broke my clavicle. I'm getting a lot better since then. But I don't want to go through this ever again! I haven't heard that much about road cyclists wearing body armor, but I'm going to give it a try and will try to report later on how it feels. I believe the technology is getting better and there's maybe some small growing understanding of road cyclists' needs. Maybe 5 or 10 years ago, body armor was limited to off-road cyclists. There's such a thing as crashing into pavement, which is pretty unforgiving. I have a feeling that being safe on the road is even more important than getting into cycling, just because getting injured is really, really not fun and almost turned me off from cycling.