Riding in shorts

Indeed it does, but the health care (if NHS) is only free at the point
of delivery if the injury is bad enough to require professional health
care then it costs the NHS lots. Yes I know we all pay our taxes and
risk is a personal thing, so don't have a problem with people's own
decisions but body repairs are expensive and bloody painful. If
Champ's repairs a couple of years ago were on the NHS I wonder what
they amounted to. I celebrate his freedom to choose to race and am
sorry it went the way that it did, sounded like the health care was
good, am very pleased he is now well enough to race again and wish him
all the best this week, by the way what is Champ's name so I can keep
an eye open for him on the tele coverage.

Decades back I used to ride as described, but in those days we called
trainers plimsoles. I never ever ride without the jacket or gloves and
hardly ever without the leggings. All down to a physiotherapist friend
who told me about degloveing injuries she had seen following bikes
accidents; see link of what I believe is an extreme example but
certainly made me think more than twice.

http://www.orthogate.org/cases/hand-and-wrist/degloving-forearm-injury.html


Still as has been said if it makes you ride more carefully the risks
must be reduced, but I bet that doesn't make the injury any less if it
does happen.

So says the whimp on a dullsville.

Brian

 

<hands over award for this week's longest sentence>

He's not racing.

Pfft. I usually wear a jacket of some description, just for the
pockets. I have a whole range of weather-dependent gear, but for a
short-range bimble in hot and humid conditions a T-shirt and zipped-off
combats win every time.

<wince>

Still, that's what happens when you trap an arm beneath a moving car.

I'd suggest that injuries sustained when riding sedately (I'm always
careful, I don't get careless just because I'm not inside a cow's skin)
would be less damaging due to the lack of speed. Obviously, if I drop
it when U-turning then a layer of leather will stand up to it better
than skin, but my speed is limited on a naked bike when in a T-shirt
due to insect impact. If I lob it overtaking at 60 in a shirt it'll
prolly hurt less (although for longer) than coming off at 140 in
leathers.

 

On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:01:53 -0700, Speedgazebo MOTP #1 wrote:

<snips "I'm a hard arse and a rebel" post>

WGAF ?

 

Accepts with thanks and embarrassment.

I assumed his posts re mates and engine transport to IOM meant he was,
maybe next year then.

I meant shorts, tee shirt and plimsoles. Also much less traffic around
in the 60s and bikes nowhere near as capable then as now, in terms of
speed, road holding and braking. They hadn't created zip off trousers
then.

Indeed, but I can see opportunities for such an injury when coming off
a bike. She was describing a bike accident injury at the time, the
link is simply an example. I could't find an image of a bike related
one.

Indeed this is should be so.

I'm sure that's right, assuming you don't go sliding down the road.
Look at Rossi's accident yesterday, off at 120 with plenty of sliding
along the floor. No degloving injuries (demonstrates the worth of cow
skins) but a completely buggered shin/ankle. It always amazes me at
the guts of those guys, sit up whilst sliding your bum on tarmac at
god knows what speed, then, jump up and usually insist on getting back
on.

Brian

 

Did you have a cloak?

 

Relatively minor, and mostly healed by then, but here you go.

http://www.colinandpat.co.uk/Diaries/2008/Hand.jpg

We went down at around 70 mph, so presumably would have been doing
somewhat less than that by the time the glove came off.

 

Doesn't look that bad for a degloving injury...

 

Brian took a blunt brush and painted...

Personal choice, personal perception of the value of your life, variable
amount of thrill you get from riding bikes fast.

After almost dying and then almost losing my leg (4 bloody times) I still
ride bikes, and given the opportunity, too fast for my skill level (how else
will I improve and get a buzz?).

I hardly ever wear leather trews. Jacket normally unless its nice and hot.

The only slowing down I do if I'm wearing jeans / fleece is when the flapping
of the clothes gets too uncomfortable. Shorts / t-shirt, don't often get the
weather to do it but it does make me more self aware.

 

When I had my big incident a few years ago I was wearing shorts and
t-shirt. My back was lacerated but my legs were so untouched everyone
assumed I'd been wearing leathers.

YMMV, obv.

 

Keith's trying to talk him into riding one of the zero-emission bikes
next year but unless he wants to be single again I can't see him
doing it.

The old race engine was in his road bike til it blew up on the dyno.
Hence the rapid shipment of a replacement so he's not on foot for the
rest of the week.

 

Umm, Champs leathers, which he still wears after his telegraph pole
incident[1], are black and grey.

[1]They were repairable, and whoever did them did a bloody good job of
them

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ogden

Yeah, but you had something soft to land on.

 

Nuns.

 

did it smell like bacon?

 

Heh. Looks a bit like it, doesn't it.

 

I wouldn't like to end up like this woman:

http://sportbike.natkd.com/road_rash.htm

 

That's why I never take anyone on the back who isn't fully kitted up. I
could cope with trashing my own skin, but doing that to someone else
would be hard to live with.

P.S. I'd still give her one.

 

*quiet awe*