If you've been piecing together your protective setup one pad at a time — a back insert here, a shoulder pad there — the 8-Piece CE Level 2 Motorcycle Armor Pad Set is the "just order the whole kit" option. It's a single yellow set that covers back, shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees in one checkout, built to drop into the removable armor pockets that most riding jackets and pants already have.

What It Is

This is an 8-piece armor set rated to CE Level 2, covering five impact zones at once: the center back, both shoulders, both elbows, both hips, and the knees. Instead of buying a back protector from one listing, elbow pads from another, and hip pads from a third, you get all of it bundled into one order — which also means one price, one shipment, and one color (yellow) across the whole set. It's built from PU foam throughout, and it's designed to slot into the existing armor pockets on compatible jackets and pants rather than being worn as a standalone piece.

Of everything in the catalog here, this is the most complete single-order armor set available — if you want every major zone covered at CE Level 2 and you'd rather not manage five separate line items to get there, this is the one that does it in one pass.

Who It's For

The clearest use case the product page calls out is outfitting a jacket and a pair of pants together at the same protection level. If you've got riding pants with knee and hip pockets and a jacket with back, shoulder, and elbow pockets, this set lets you bring both garments up to CE Level 2 in one order instead of sourcing pads piecemeal and ending up with a mismatched mix of ratings across your gear. It's also a reasonable pick if you're setting up a new jacket-and-pants combo from scratch and don't yet own any armor — you're not guessing at what you still need pad by pad, because the set already assumes you're covering all five zones.

It's less of a fit if you only need one or two zones replaced — say your jacket already has a perfectly good back protector and you just need fresh elbow pads. In that narrower case, a single-zone pad is the more direct buy, and it's worth checking the rest of the armor pads and protective pad sets collection for that kind of targeted replacement before committing to the full 8-piece set.

Construction & Materials

The set is built from PU (polyurethane) foam throughout, which is the standard material behind most CE-rated motorcycle armor — it's the foam's density and construction, combined with how it's shaped and placed, that actually earns a pad its CE certification, not just the material name alone. Every piece in this 8-piece set shares that same foam construction and the same yellow colorway, so you're not mixing and matching different build qualities across your back, shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee protection the way you might if you sourced each zone from a different brand or listing.

CE Level 2 Rating: What That Actually Means

This set carries a CE Level 2 rating, which is the higher of the two tiers defined for motorcycle body armor under the EN 1621 standard. The short version: both levels have to pass the same kind of test — a weighted mass is dropped onto the pad to simulate an impact, and sensors measure how much force actually transmits through to the body underneath. The difference is how much force is allowed to get through before the pad fails the test.

For limb armor (shoulders, elbows, hips, knees) under EN 1621-1, Level 1 pads have to keep peak transmitted force under 35 kN, with no single test result over 50 kN. Level 2 pads have to cut that down to 20 kN peak, with no result over 30 kN — roughly half what Level 1 allows through. For back protectors under EN 1621-2, Level 1 caps transmitted force at 18 kN (24 kN max), while Level 2 brings that down to 9 kN (12 kN max).

Here's a way to picture that gap: think of the drop test like dropping a weight from a set height onto the pad, and measuring how much of that impact punches through to your back or your elbow versus how much the foam itself absorbs. A Level 1 pad is doing a solid job of soaking up most of a hard hit — a Level 2 pad is built to soak up roughly double that, cutting what reaches your body by about half compared to Level 1 in the same test. Since every piece in this set is rated Level 2, you're getting that higher absorption standard across all five zones at once, rather than having some pads at the lower tier and others at the higher one.

Fit & Sizing

Because this set is made to go inside the removable armor pockets built into compatible jackets and pants, fit comes down to your garments, not the pads themselves. The product page is direct about this: check the pocket dimensions on both your jacket and your pants before ordering. Armor pockets vary enough between brands and even between models from the same brand that a pad sized for one garment can sit loose or bunch up in another. If you already own the jacket and pants you're planning to use this set with, pull up their spec sheets or measure the pockets directly — back pocket length and width, shoulder and elbow pocket depth, hip and knee pocket dimensions — before you place the order, especially since this is a yellow-only, single-variant set rather than something offered in multiple sizes.

How It Compares

Compared to buying individual pads one zone at a time, the main trade-off with this 8-piece set is straightforward: you give up the ability to mix brands or styles zone-by-zone, but you gain simplicity — one order, one consistent CE Level 2 rating across every piece, and one color scheme instead of a patchwork. If your priority is getting a jacket and pants both up to the same protection tier without tracking five separate purchases, that trade-off tends to favor the set.

Compared to a CE Level 1 version of the same kind of coverage, the difference isn't about which zones are covered — it's purely about how much impact force each pad is built to stop, per the EN 1621 numbers above. If you're deciding between a Level 1 and a Level 2 set otherwise similar to this one, that force-transmission gap is the number to weigh, not the price or the material name.

If you're ready to outfit both garments at once, you can view the full listing and current price on the 8-Piece CE Level 2 Motorcycle Armor Pad Set product page, or browse the rest of the Motorcycle Armor Pads & Protective Pad Sets collection if you'd rather handle one zone at a time.