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From: YTC#1 on 10 May 2010 05:18 On Mon, 10 May 2010 08:48:11 +0100, Champ wrote: > On Sun, 09 May 2010 20:56:37 GMT, YTC#1 <bdp(a)ytc1-nospam.co.uk> wrote: > >>You are from the camp of "I'm always right. even when I was wrong" >>aren't you ? > > I don't think I've ever seen a better example of "projection". I taught him everything he knows.
From: Hog on 10 May 2010 06:45 Krusty wrote: > Hog wrote: > >> zymurgy <zymurgy(a)technologist.com> wrote: >>> >>> The Draggin' jeans i've got would be ok around town / A roads etc. >> >> I know it sounds sensible but if one goes for the Luge event at M-Way >> speed does anything stop the abrasion, short of your bones? > > Do you never watch bike racing? Decent leathers will protect your skin > at well over the ton, as long as you don't hit anything solid. > > In reality though you're very unlikely to slide far on tarmac on the > road. The longest I've managed was around 20 yards, & my jeans > survived (which is more than can be said for the rocker cover on the > R65 I was riding). In answer to you and Champ I wondered if leathers would save your own hide sliding to a halt for 100+ down motorway tarmac? Racers usually end up on the grass/pea gravel pretty smartly. -- Hog
From: Krusty on 10 May 2010 07:07 Hog wrote: > Krusty wrote: > > Hog wrote: > > > >>zymurgy <zymurgy(a)technologist.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > The Draggin' jeans i've got would be ok around town / A roads > > > > etc. > > > > > > I know it sounds sensible but if one goes for the Luge event at > > > M-Way speed does anything stop the abrasion, short of your bones? > > > > Do you never watch bike racing? Decent leathers will protect your > > skin at well over the ton, as long as you don't hit anything solid. > > > > In reality though you're very unlikely to slide far on tarmac on the > > road. The longest I've managed was around 20 yards, & my jeans > > survived (which is more than can be said for the rocker cover on the > > R65 I was riding). > > In answer to you and Champ I wondered if leathers would save your own > hide sliding to a halt for 100+ down motorway tarmac? Racers usually > end up on the grass/pea gravel pretty smartly. There's been a few I've seen where they slide forever down a long straight. Most notably whoever it was who got their front brake lever clipped on the straight in a 125/250 race (McWilliams?). -- Krusty
From: doetnietcomputeren on 10 May 2010 07:33 On 2010-05-10 11:18:56 +0200, YTC#1 <bdp(a)ytc1-nospam.co.uk> said: >>> You are from the camp of "I'm always right. even when I was wrong" >>> aren't you ? >> >> I don't think I've ever seen a better example of "projection". > > I taught him everything he knows. YTC. -- Dnc
From: doetnietcomputeren on 10 May 2010 07:36
On 2010-05-10 12:45:46 +0200, "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> said: >>>> >>>> The Draggin' jeans i've got would be ok around town / A roads etc. >>> >>> I know it sounds sensible but if one goes for the Luge event at M-Way >>> speed does anything stop the abrasion, short of your bones? >> >> Do you never watch bike racing? Decent leathers will protect your skin >> at well over the ton, as long as you don't hit anything solid. >> >> In reality though you're very unlikely to slide far on tarmac on the >> road. The longest I've managed was around 20 yards, & my jeans >> survived (which is more than can be said for the rocker cover on the >> R65 I was riding). > > In answer to you and Champ I wondered if leathers would save your own hide > sliding to a halt for 100+ down motorway tarmac? > Racers usually end up on the grass/pea gravel pretty smartly. I had an 80mph off, of the sky brake-lights tarmac sky headlights sky brakelights repeat type, on a motorway, weaing leathers and a textile jacket. The jacket didn't fare so well, although I didn't get any gravel rash at all. The leather jeans were find for another few years of riding. -- Dnc |