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Originally Posted by mike the snake
I can suggest getting leather gear. Fabric gear literally grabs the road when you crash. Leather skips and slides.
I crashed (hit sand in a turn-highsided in a very bad way) and my fabric padded riding jacket bunched right up to my neck on both arms when I hit the street doing my Superman impression. I was wearing jeans, so my knees and legs got messed up. Leather pants would have MAYBE left me bruised.
I was wearing leather gloves with short gauntlets, they flew off while I was rolling, get LONG gauntlet gloves.
I was wearing leather shoes, they flew off as well while I was rolling on the ground. Wear leather boots.
If I'd been wearing the correct riding gear, i would have walked away, instead, I broke many bones, feet, hands, elbow, lots of road rash.
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The one time I wrecked I was wearing Fieldsheer textile jacket, Fieldsheer textile overpants, British Motorcycle Gear full gauntlet winter leather gloves, Alpinestars boots and a Shoei helmet. This was under 10 mph turning left into my parking lot at work and I hit a patch of black ice. 06 JAN 2009, 17F. I went down on my left side and the bike took off on the frame slider, did a 180 and hit the curb which destroyed the front fairing, windscreen, mirrors, left clip on, tank and tail.
Padding on the palms of one of the gloves was torn off but there was a layer underneath Left knee of overpants the upper seam blew out completely like a balloon popping. Again, padding and layer underneath protected me. Jacket was very slightly abraded but was perfectly usable. Helmet didn't touch the ground thank the motorcycle gods as it was only two days old. Boots were fine as my hip is what took the impact.
I clicked the accident counter from 0 to 1 that day for my base. Because in this case it was truly an accident (there was nothing I could've done short of having IR vision).
Now I say all this because textile (i.e. fabric) gear can absolutely keep you safe - but where it differs from leather is in its ability to keep you safe more than once. Leather garments are more durable and are usually repairable. The hole you see in my pants below the left pocket is where my house keys were in my outer pocket. That was the only bruise I had.
