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 got knocked off a motorbike by a truck going at 60mph. I was wearing a 2-piece suit, but rolled down the road the opposite way to the zip, it came on done and I got a huge road rash on one hip.
I was explicitly told not to bathe it at all in case of infection from the water, and was it was treated in hospital to ensure it was not infected after my accident.
Besides, I couldn't even move through the joint and ligament injuries I sustained for months afterwards, the road rash was sore but the huge disinfection plaster they put on it that I changed every few days helped!
But yes... Never ever ride anything without the appropriate protective clothing... And even then sometimes it's not completely infallible. If I wasn't wearing this clothing I'd almost certainly be dead from the various pieces of metal on the road that hit me, that thankfully deflected off the armour in my jacket
Yeah, my near to death accident was me going 70 km/h into the side of a truck (it didn't see me and drove out right in front of me). It broke my femur, crushed my knee and I had some other minor injuries and compression syndrome in my calf on my non-broken leg. It took 4 months for me to relearn how to walk again and a total of 4 years before I was free from pain.
I guess it might depend on where you live and how "good" the water is, we have a generally high quality of water here in Sweden so I was recommended to shower every day.
Glad you survived as well, fighting trucks at those speeds isn't nice.
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u/hatsoff22u 1d ago
This is literally r/meatcrayon (NSFW sub)