POC Spine VPD Air Tee Review

POC Spine VPD Air Tee Reviews

Review score: 9.3/10 – Updated October, 2024

Latest Price: £175 (RRP: £175)

Take a look now to discover what makes POC Spine VPD Air Tee worthy of a review score of 9.3 out of 10.

POC Spine VPD Air Tee Review


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POC Spine VPD Air Tee features

POC Spine VPD Air Tee specs

POC Spine VPD Air Tee
Spec 1

Colour: Uranium Black

Other Body Armour found with this Spec: 15

Spec 2

Clothing Size: L, S, M

Other Body Armour found with this Spec: 32

Spec 3

Gender: Male

Other Body Armour found with this Spec: 2286

Spec 4

Age Group: Adult

Other Body Armour found with this Spec: 4703

Spec 5

Option: Regular, Slim

Other Body Armour found with this Spec: 1

Feature 1

Low friction, polyamide construction

Other Body Armour found with this feature: 3

Feature 2

Extremely flexible and light VPD elbow pad

Other Body Armour found with this feature: 2

Feature 3

Light, ventilated back protector certified according to EN 1621-2

Other Body Armour found with this feature: 1

Feature 4

Ventilation system constructed within each layer

Other Body Armour found with this feature: 3

Feature 5

High abrasion resistance

Other Body Armour found with this feature: 1

Price

£175

Number of Reviews

1

Review Score

5 / 5

Average score in category: 4.2/5

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Quality

Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Body Armour. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of POC Spine VPD Air Tee.

The first thing is material. Looking at what POC Spine VPD Air Tee is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.

Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Body Armour. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.

There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Body Armour. Brands like POC are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.

Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Body Armour category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.


Comparing Prices

Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Body Armour.

It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.

Price of POC Spine VPD Air Tee

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of POC Spine VPD Air Tee.

We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find POC Spine VPD Air Tee was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £175 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.6 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Body Armour

Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Body Armour.

We found 224 in the Body Armour category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £83.38, making it above average at £175.

It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Body Armour. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £449.99, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £5.00.

With 224 products available we worked out that 14 cost more than POC Spine VPD Air Tee and 207 were cheaper.

Cost of POC products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 48 products from POC, of which 16 were in the Body Armour category.

For now though we’re looking at POC branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £130.16 making this product above average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest POC product we found was £17.50 and the highest price we could find from them was £360.00.

Of the 48 from POC, 9 were more expensive than POC Spine VPD Air Tee and 38 were cheaper.

How much are POC Body Armour?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at POC products that are listed in the Body Armour category.

The average price of the 16 products that match this search was £109.75, with the cheapest coming in at £60.00 and highest price was £178.44. With the average being £109.75, POC Spine VPD Air Tee comes in above average.

1 products that meet this search were more expensive than POC Spine VPD Air Tee and 14 were cheaper.


POC Spine VPD Air Tee Reviews

Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.

There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.

1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.

2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.

Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the POC Spine VPD Air Tee reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for POC Spine VPD Air Tee, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.6 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Body Armour category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.2 out of 5.

Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy POC Spine VPD Air Tee or another similar product, like POC Spine VPD System Vest reviews or POC VPD Air Leg reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Body Armour.


Brand

As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Body Armour. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with POC, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.


YouTube Video of POC Spine VPD Air Tee

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for POC Spine VPD Air Tee reviews.


Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of POC Spine VPD Air Tee. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 9.3/10 overall.


Further product details

  • Product ID 1: 25010983647
  • Product ID 2: 574610UK
  • Brand: POC
  • Model number: PO-90578
  • RRP: £175
  • EAN: 7325540905787
  • Description: POC Spine VPD Air TeePOC’s Spine VPD Air Tee is a versatile long sleeve T-shirt with 2-ply elbow and back protection. It features a highly proficient ventilation system for optimal moisture management and comfort. The polyamide construction ensures low friction and high abrasion resistance. VPD is the ultimate material for MTB as it wraps around the body shape when warm for greater freedom of movement on the bike. Upon impact, the VPD technology hardens to minimise injury.Features:Low friction, polyamide constructionExtremely flexible and light VPD elbow padLight, ventilated back protector certified according to EN 1621-2Ventilation system constructed within each layerHigh abrasion resistanceTechnologies:VPD (Visco-Elastic Polymer Dough): POC’s work together with specialists on spinal injuries, riders of all kinds and experts in material and construction have resulted in body armour that will give you both a high level of comfort and safety.The VPD (Visco-Elastic Polymer Dough) range offers extreme impact absorption, which has given POC a completely new approach to developing body armour. VPD is highly impact absorbent, comfortable and adapts to create an individual fit and due to its high level of protection and the ability to transition from soft to hard during impact, they don’t have to choose between safety and flexibility.Many back protectors are lightweight, but may not be optimal for shock absorption. Some can take one impact with good shock absorption, but a second impact to the protector will transfer a much higher amount of energy to the user, the third an even greater amount and so on. VPD material retains the same high absorption level, and that is an important property for POC since they believe that a protector will have several impacts during one fall, and during its lifetime.Buy POC Protection from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Full Category: Protection > Body Armour
  • Size: L
  • Male
  • 0
  • Adult

Other options for Body Armour

As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Body Armour. 224 in fact.

A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching POC Spine VPD Air Tee included,
POC VPD Air Sleeve 2018 reviews, POC VPD Air+ Tee 2018 reviews, or we really liked the look of POC VPD Lite Elbow Armour 2019 reviews as another alternative.

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