Tales from the low side...

[Madguitarist!]

Dude, glad to hear you came out of it ok! Maybe we could go riding sometime when you get your ride up to scratch again? I'm up in torbay.

[scumdog]

Good entertainment don't come cheap eh? Still, at least it wasn't wasted on a lack of audience!!

[Stevo]

Great to hear you survived to tell your humorous little tale, and good job there was no big ass truck moving across your slide path.

Any girl who jumps out of the bushes MUST be a good girl!

[Naked Commuter]

Maybe we could go riding sometime when you get your ride up to scratch again? I'm up in torbay.

Yrah man, deffo, I got a mirror and windshield from Bugjuice last night, so she's coming together piece by piece, hopefully she'll be back on the road sooner rather than later

[Lou Girardin]

Over rated that Cordura stuff.
I was all for it until I had a spill, wore through to the foam padding on a minimal slide [ from what I can remember]
Leather jacket- cant even tell where I slid.

Sounds like the cordura worked. Unless you plan to have multiple spills with the same gear.
I bet your leather wouldn't keep out a light West Coast shower though. (That's equivalent to a North Island monsoon)

[scumdog]

Sounds like the cordura worked. Unless you plan to have multiple spills with the same gear.
I bet your leather wouldn't keep out a light West Coast shower though. (That's equivalent to a North Island monsoon)

See Jantars post on this subject.

[Aaron]

Ah mate...

She said she was watching me go round the corner and wondering just how low we bikers can go just before I bailed.

...that's classic.

Good to hear you and your bike are ok though.

Nice write up and kudos to admitting your 'self taught cornering tutorial'

[Zapf]

Sounds like the cordura worked. Unless you plan to have multiple spills with the same gear.
I bet your leather wouldn't keep out a light West Coast shower though. (That's equivalent to a North Island monsoon)

hence I am getting some leathers with gore tex inserts.... hopefully should do the trick for my SI ride.

But I believe in leather now.... after seeing the performance (simi non) of cordura at a slow low side.

[JohnBoy]

i once believed in the sythetics but not any more. i saw the light when i crashed last labour weekend, went down hard on right shoulder and all i did was rip the leather and scratch the armour. going out on friday and buying a new one piece to replace my jacket sporting the race tape repair jobbie!