Road Tested My Riding Gear Today.......A+

[Dragonfly]

Vitamin E is awsome for healing your wounds and preventing scars.

[Hajinomoto1]

I finally got around to taking pics of the Jacket and jeans:

The jeans have a pretty large hole near the left crotch: No worries, no "equipment" was damaged during the Riding gear test. WOOOOHOOO
-also a small hole near the right knee and on the upper front pocket where I was carrying my chapstick and hand sanitizer, that promptly shattered.



Upon closer inspection of the jacket, it did not fair as good as I thought.
Here's a pic of the shoulder on the right- notice the tear and some padding portruding.

-the end of the left sleeve had some holes, where the outer layer MELTED, but the hole didn't extend into the inner liner.  



This is a pic of the right elbow, that shows a hole that also melted through the outter layer, but not into the liner



I've been researching the treatment of ROADRASH on the internet, and the concensus seems to be that the wound my be kept moist, yet sealed from germs ect. to allow the free-transfer of cells and ect.

The bandage that was recommended keeps the area sealed and is supposed to be kept in place for a few days at a time. But I found its kinda hard to get a positive longlasting seal on the knee, so a couple of times today I discovered the dressing leaking and sending all the "good healing fluid" down my leg. eeeeeewwww  :mrgreen: hahahhaha.

I'm gonna try the Vitamin E trick buy squeezing the gel tabs over the rash tonight and puting one of those bandages on top.



Been searching  for the replacement left case or crank case cover.  So far the only ones I found are OEM and were at Bikebandit.com for about $92. Is there any other online shops I should check out?

[The Antibody]

Hey Hajinomoto1, are you looking for a mint engine cover? I have a 2002, and my old left cover is scratched up, but in great operational shape.

 -Anti

[mrslush50]

Vitamin E is awsome for healing your wounds and preventing scars.

why would you want to prevent scars?    

about the jacket: actually, as long as you're ok, the jacket did a good job.  unlike some leather jackets, textile jackets are designed to be "one time use only", just like helmets.  So as long as it stoped the concrete short of your skin, it did exactly what it was designed to do. buy a new one, and be thankful you're still around to do so.  glad you made it through ok, and hope you have a quick return.