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Folks,
A little while ago the someone lowsided her bike. Fortunately all is well with only superficial damage done to her and the bike. The bike came down and slid across the other side of the road comming to rest on top of her. The accident happend on a sunny day on a dry road and the person wasn't speeding (ie just bad luck due to inexperience).
Lessons learnt about kit.
Full face helmet is a must. The left side of the visor and the top left side is deeply scarred. Without a full face helmet half her face would have been left on the road.
Leather jacket is a must. Her leather jacket is deeply scratched on the left hand side shoulder, left arm and side where she hit and slid across the road. The jacket is still intact and useable but again saved her. Only damage is bruising.
Pants - she was wearing Draggins and these were better than jeans but given the damage sustained by the jacket not as good as leather. The kevlar at the knee split and she "grazed" her knee. Im sure that with leather this would not have occured (re comments on leather jacket).
Something "melted" into the wound (we thought the lycra from her leggings but they were pure wool so pehaps the Kevlar). 8 hour wait in the Emergency room (just to be sure) and vigourous scrubbing of the wound by the doctor (under local anesthetic) could not remove the material that is fused to the flesh. Hopefully it will slough off when healing. The "melting" would not occur with leather either.
In the category of " I was gunna" - leather pants were to be our next purchase for country trips. If only she had planned her off until after we bought them. Guess whats next on our shopping list, before the bike is repaired???
Gloves - again leather - are there any other kind? Hers had kevlar pads on the knuckle which were almost worn through on one side. I dont know if Kevlar is necessary but certainly a double layer of leaather or padding on the knuckles is a must.
Boots - must be leather with ankle and shin protection. I forgot about them because despite sliding across the road and comming to rest with the bike on top (a passer by had to lift it off) her ankles etc were fine. I noticed some scraping on the boots but as no injury didn't look further.
My advice, especially for newbies. It costs a lot to get a bike on the road. An extra $1k for kit is hardly justifiable because you wont have an accident right? Pay the extra and get the leather kit. You can get it relatively inexpensively on ebay.
Still not convinced that you need this stuff. Think of this. You would want to be properly kitted if you just happened to be happily and safely riding along in the other direction when the person and her bike slid across into your lane.........ouch!!
A little while ago the someone lowsided her bike. Fortunately all is well with only superficial damage done to her and the bike. The bike came down and slid across the other side of the road comming to rest on top of her. The accident happend on a sunny day on a dry road and the person wasn't speeding (ie just bad luck due to inexperience).
Lessons learnt about kit.
Full face helmet is a must. The left side of the visor and the top left side is deeply scarred. Without a full face helmet half her face would have been left on the road.
Leather jacket is a must. Her leather jacket is deeply scratched on the left hand side shoulder, left arm and side where she hit and slid across the road. The jacket is still intact and useable but again saved her. Only damage is bruising.
Pants - she was wearing Draggins and these were better than jeans but given the damage sustained by the jacket not as good as leather. The kevlar at the knee split and she "grazed" her knee. Im sure that with leather this would not have occured (re comments on leather jacket).
Something "melted" into the wound (we thought the lycra from her leggings but they were pure wool so pehaps the Kevlar). 8 hour wait in the Emergency room (just to be sure) and vigourous scrubbing of the wound by the doctor (under local anesthetic) could not remove the material that is fused to the flesh. Hopefully it will slough off when healing. The "melting" would not occur with leather either.
In the category of " I was gunna" - leather pants were to be our next purchase for country trips. If only she had planned her off until after we bought them. Guess whats next on our shopping list, before the bike is repaired???
Gloves - again leather - are there any other kind? Hers had kevlar pads on the knuckle which were almost worn through on one side. I dont know if Kevlar is necessary but certainly a double layer of leaather or padding on the knuckles is a must.
Boots - must be leather with ankle and shin protection. I forgot about them because despite sliding across the road and comming to rest with the bike on top (a passer by had to lift it off) her ankles etc were fine. I noticed some scraping on the boots but as no injury didn't look further.
My advice, especially for newbies. It costs a lot to get a bike on the road. An extra $1k for kit is hardly justifiable because you wont have an accident right? Pay the extra and get the leather kit. You can get it relatively inexpensively on ebay.
Still not convinced that you need this stuff. Think of this. You would want to be properly kitted if you just happened to be happily and safely riding along in the other direction when the person and her bike slid across into your lane.........ouch!!
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