Draggin Jeans - after

My Draggin Jeans lived up to their name and saved my skin recently. The ambos
did a good job checking me out too. They cut them from cuff to thigh to get a
look at my unmarked legs! Not that I'm complaining mind, they did a great job
and getting checked out quick was worth way more than $200. So was my skin.

http://sunnybar.dynip.com/pub/djeans.jpg

 

what ?!?!? No blood ?!?!? How ungruesome !!!

Every one you walk away from is a good one...


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Onya bike

Gerry

 

A traffic cop came along to our club meeting to give a talk on road
rules etc.
During the talk he mentioned the method the casualty staff use to remove
ordinary jeans that become embedded in your legs during an "off slide",
it would seem that they use a stiff bristle scrubbing brush which
effectively takes away the cotton material along with the skin.
I would imagine it could make your eyes water a bit when you came around ??

Rheilly P

 

I was wearing Draggins when I had my off last year, my experience was
quite different. I got thrown and hit the ground pretty hard (left
front helmet, chest and left leg primarily). I dont think I skidded
far, but cant remember. My legs didnt get chewed up, but the grazing
on my knees from impacting the kevlar fabric inside was as bad as any
grazing I've ever had, they were a mess (but other injuries were far
more important at the time). The pants I now have also have knee
armour (yes Draggin do that too but not particularly well).

Al

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 3 Jul 2011 21:47:30 -0700 (PDT)

It was your own fault, you have skinny legs!

Those whose trousers hug their nether limbs don't get that problem....

I've been grazed by the inside of my protective gear, if it can move
it will, and it won't be fun when it does. (My scars let me show you
them....)

Best method is to avoid falling off. Once I work that out I'll be
right!

Zebee

 

I'd like some armour on my knees but I've got short legs and the store I
went to didn't stock the short leg version of the dririder nordic to
match the coat. I will probably go down to Brisbane and look in some
bigger stores eventually. Till then the replacement draggins will have
to do.

Oh I got a slight graze inside my coat on the left arm. Probably should
have tightened up the arm adjustments more.

I need a knee reconstruction too :-(
Thought I'd got away with it till it collapsed a couple of weeks later.
On the upside the insurance has come through and I get my bike back in
time for the weekend.

 

What sort of reconstruction , after several I know they sorta work
sometimes but the knee usually is never the same
Good luck with it what ever the outcome

 

Autograft from the tendons in the same leg.
Something about drilling a hole in the bone to make a conduit for it.
Bloke seemed to know what he was on about.

I do (or rather did!) vertical rescue with the SES.
With my knee the way it is now thats all gone. Hoping to get it back.
Breaking the leg would have been much easier.

 

My mum would do the same with a toothbrush if I grazed myself with gravel.

To sum it up.. yes. It did hurt. Dettol didn't make it any nicer.

 

That pic doesn't really provide any evidence that the kevlar provided
you with any benefit. You need to show a photo of the non-kevlar side
of the jeans as well. If there isn't any part of the jean which is
substantially more worn than the kevlar underneath it then they really
haven't done any more than a pair of Levis at half the price.

Why did the ambos cut them open? Did your legs feel like they were
injured? did the outside of the jeans give the impression that your legs
might be injured? I had the ambos cut the legs off a pair of my jeans
once before, but that was because you could see halfway through my leg
through the hole in the knee of the pants.

Nev..

 

No more climbing on a regular basis , it will work and in time become
problematic unless you take care , I have no meniscus and most of the
tendons hold both knees together are like your shredded
I can still get around but a marathon is our of the question
University of Qld is making huge strides in cartilage growth being in
animal testing atm re meniscus , another decade will see effective knee
repair with biological entirely possible , Check UQ site for more
It sounds like the Surgeon has a clue but remember when you need more
work select a recently trained Dr , know what I mean ?

 

Sounds a lot like of talk to scare young blokes into compliance. I've
heard about the scrubbing brush stories too but never spoken to anyone
who has actually had it done to them. Although in the versions i heard
the scrubbing brush is supposed to be to get rid of the gravel, not the
cotton from jeans. I am not exactly sure how cotton would become such a
menace that it would require a stiff bristle brush to remove.

I have had road gravel removed from my knee. That took about 15
minutes. There were no scrubbing brushes. It involved a lot of water
to clean the wound, a set of tweezers to pick bits of gravel out, a
scalpel to remove bits of damaged tissue, and copious amounts of local
aneasthetic. I watched the whole thing like it was happening to someone
else. I didn't feel a thing.

Nev..

 

They cut them from cuff to thigh to get a look at my unmarked legs!

They did that to me at Oran Park when I crashed at the end of the straight...
my leathers were only 2mths old, **** I was pist 3 days later when I was
told by the bloke in the crash ute that i walked to the Ambo for a checkup...
I couldnt figure why they cut them from neck to waist with a nice circle
to the back too.
Dont remember any of the day, maybe I asked them too...

 

Why did the ambos cut them open?
they have shares in the local bike shop that sells new ones.

 

There's one spot where the fabric is worn through to the kevlar. It didn't show
in the photos I took so I didn't post it. I ended up with a slight burn on the
hip where that happened, but no skin lost anywhere.

I thought I'd broken my left leg. Ended up being an ACL and an LCL rupture. The
leg looked odd through the pants but straightened up again by the time I got to
hospital. I'm getting a knee reconstruction for my birthday in a months time.

Apparently standard procedure is to cut both legs of the pants like this for
motorcycle accidents. Luckily this time it was unnecessary, but they reckon they
often find injuries the downed rider never knew they had.

 

Sounds like a good story, but I got the definite impression motorcycle related
injuries are treated with less than overwhelming concern by the hospital. Once
it was determined I had no broken bones the doctor asked if I could stand up.
When I could (just) he said "good, then you can walk out".

 

You realise scooter drivers are considered "doners" util proven otherwise
I expect he struggled to hide disappoint

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:05:25 +0000 (UTC)

Glad it isn't....

I did get mine cut off when I broke my knee, but it was rather
obvious.

When I got the footpeg through my leg they helped me get the leathers
off, rather than cutting them.

WHen I got the elbow cut from my jacket armour, they helped me get the
jacket off, and left the trousers alone.

I'd be damned annoyed if they wrecked bits of gear that were
surrounding bits of me that didn't hurt! But apparently your bits did.

Zebee

 

Cleaning your teeth afterward was pretty yucchy too!

 

Lucky you didn't get that Russian ambo to get your jeans off
you know the one

Ambo Medic Cutchyacockoff