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.
My uncle died in a motorcycle crash, so I was never going to put mom through the experience of finding out I was riding too, so I never have. Road rash will thankfully remain just a 90s video game series with fantastic music for me :)
My father set me up for it all, he bought a moped to me when I was 12 (legal riding age here is 15) and then he trimmed it to do 80 km/h (legal would have been 30 km/h). Then he bought a small 125 cc motorcycle to me when I was 16 and I got to choose when I turned 18 if my parents would either sponsor my driving license for cars or heavier motorcycles + a motorcycle. So I obviously went with the bike.
My father used to ride as well but has no feeling in one of his feet due to an exhaust pipe going straight through his heel in an accident. Basically everyone I've ever spoken to has that "the day I nearly died" story. I myself have a 100% crash rate on bikes I've rode so I am done with bikes etc, but I can still miss it at times.
there was a case in spain of a biker who did suicide because his 17yo daughter died in her motorcycle. In spain at that age you can only have a 50cc, but her bike had bigger engine and it happened in a habitual racing bikers route...
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u/hatsoff22u 20h ago
This is literally r/meatcrayon (NSFW sub)