Icon Field Armor Compression Pants

Some products check all the boxes—impact, and abrasion resistance, weather-beating features, civilian versatility…style, even. These Compression Pants from Icon, admittedly, do not completely check any of those boxes.  Very clearly, this product alone will not actually save your ass in a crash. Not alone it won’t. But when used as a smart extra layer, it certainly can help dodge bone trauma, bruising and the painful scraping off of one’s skin.  The Compression Pants’ armor is not CE rated, per se, but they do sport multiple ~5mm-thick die-cut D30 panels. There are 11 of these panels in total, including a critical coccyx (tailbone) protector. Critically, each island of D3O is sheathed in a genuine DuPont Kevlar shell, so they offer some palpable supplemental slide protection on top of the armor. As with any piece of gear you’re considering, it’s important to understand not just what it will do for you, but also what it *will not* do.  The better you can know the limitations of your gear