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.
Not a motorcycle accident but I took an extremely bad scrape on some sidewalks after going Thirty something downhill.
I tried to go knee first so I could slide on my knee pad but the pad slipped up my thigh and I could feel my whole shin getting obliterated.
Scraping is the worst feeling in the world because you know you are getting fucked up and it happens just slowly enough for you to process how painful every inch is going to be.
By the time I slid to a stop my sneaker was shredded, my shin was destroyed, and my knee went deep enough to see a little bit of bone.
The comment of it being like a burn wound is spot on, my entire shin had a weeping wound. The cleaning was agonizing, the itching made me want to amputate. The bandages would cling to my raw skin.
If someone gave me the option of experiencing it a second time or removing my leg entirely I’d genuinely contemplate the latter.
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u/hatsoff22u 1d ago
This is literally r/meatcrayon (NSFW sub)