Pavement:1 Pride:0

[brimic]

I am such an idiot

When I got a motorcycle, I promised myself that I'd never ride like an arsehole, never ride while drinking, and never ride while angry. Yesterday I broke rules 1,3. 

I got into an argument with my wife, and decided to go for a ride to cool off. I got more angry as I rode, and when I came home, I pulled into the driveway too hard, a peg scraped followed by the muffler scraping, followed by plllttttttt with me getting a nice ground level view of the road. I somehow managed to get my leg out from under it, hit the kill switch and got the bike stood back up in what felt like about 10 seconds time. Neighbor came running over to help, told me "yep, you just got your dump out of the way and you came out pretty good." Bike was mostly undamaged with a few scrapes under th mufflers, pegs, and rear brake pedal. I got some  road rash down most of my right forearm, torn jeans, a slightly skinned knee, one boot badly scuffed, and a badly bruised ego.

I guess I learned my lesson from this about riding angry. I'm also going to get better protective gear. I'm not exctly sure what happened with my arm, I'm thinking that the cuff from my jacket (textile) came unvelcroed and rode up my arm, but I'm not entirely sure as its difficult to push the sleeve back and I don't remember it being pulled back. The cuff of the jacket is partially shredded. I think I'm going to invest in some good leather along with a pair of leather chaps.

[wmenorr67]

Based on the poster and the comment I figured out even before opening this what the story was.

You don't even have to have skin touch pavement to get road rash.

[bedlamite]

Sounds like you have a good handle on why you crashed. What kind of gloves do you have? I will only wear gloves with a full gauntlet. Not only will they protect your wrist better, they will also keep your jacket in place better. While chaps are better than just jeans, they will not protect the one part that is likely to slide across the ground, your @ss.

Here's the pants I wear, and my jacket

[brimic]

I was going to buy gauntlet gloves, but a friend talked me out of it- he told me that they are too hot and sweaty in summer, but are good in fall and spring.  I wear a pair Coretech gloves which look like Mechanic's gloves with a padded palm and bits of armor on the knuckles. I was actually quite suprised that my hands didn't take any damage at all but then again I don't think they came close to the pavement.

[zahc]

I'm not exctly sure what happened with my arm, I'm thinking that the cuff from my jacket (textile) came unvelcroed and rode up my arm, but I'm not entirely sure as its difficult to push the sleeve back and I don't remember it being pulled back.

From skateboarding, I've always been amazed how you can get road rash even under clothes that are apparently undamaged.

[brimic]

I didn't know that about road rash until now. I guess I'll just be happy with the sking that I didn't lose and the bones/joints that didn't break.

[Hawkmoon]

I took my first (and hopefully only) dump wearing jeans, a denim jacket, and lightweight (unlined) leather gloves. I still have a scar on the palm of one hand, 35 years later -- the other abrasions pretty well healed over. That taught me to consider levels of discomfort. Being a bit warm due to wearing a real leather riding jacket and real gauntlet riding gloves is a lot less uncomfortable than sliding down the road at 30 mph wondering if the motorcycle doing somersaults next to you is going to land in the ditch or on your head.