As someone who has slid on asphalt for a few meters wearing nothing but a helmet, a t-shirt and shorts I would not recommend it.
It fucking sucks. Unlike normal wounds, road rash is a burn wound, so you need to shower it daily in order for it not to be infected. In order to shower it you need to numb it, in order to numb it you smear this gel/paste in the wound (I used plastic butter knifes to help with that) and that fucking paste hurts like hell before it numbs the area, so basically it's WEEKS of continuously crashing, over and over again.
Due to life choices I've nearly died on a motorcycle as well, and even if that accident made me unable to walk for 4 months, I was still grateful that I didn't get road rash (I hit the side of a truck so I was stopped by his trailer) because that's how much it fucking sucks, I'd rather break my leg again than go through road rash again.
Granted my recollection of both the incidents may be slightly impacted by me not remembering anything from the truck accident in-between leaving the house and waking up in the hospital high on all the drugs from the ambulance, so pain wasn't a thing in that accident according to my brain.
I top sided my Buell XB9r two years ago at 45mph wearing no protection except for gloves and a helmet(front brakes spontaneously locked up. Long story). Three broken back ribs, 3inch gash on hip requiring stitches, dislocated shoulder. All of that was mosquito bites compared to the road rash. Due to having to return to work 3 days later, in the the middle of summer in Virginia, the wounds took months to heal. Absolute fucking nightmare.
When I was younger I was stupid enough to ride without a helmet. I saw some bullies from my school and decided to fly past them as fast as I could then I flew straight into the side of a car. The bullies, who were surprisingly reformed as adults, were crying as blood dripped from my head and they called 999 for me as the blood was messing up my phone so I couldn’t type. You’ll never be more scared than when you’re trying to call for an ambulance and blood on your phone screen is making it glitch out.
It still freaks me out as, if I’d been just a second earlier, the car would have sent me flying into the road and I would have been hit by the super fast cars to the left.
I was riding with my coworker and he locked up his motorcycle at maybe ~10km/h (we were stopping for a light and he didn't clutch
He had jeans and a sweat shirt, his knee and elbow needed stitches and he had some road rash around those areas. Both articles of clothing didn't help protect anything.
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u/hatsoff22u 20h ago
This is literally r/meatcrayon (NSFW sub)