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I performed one of those 0 MPH pratfalls when I first got this Triumph. I was wearing the Triumph Paddock Jacket with armour in the elbows and shoulder and a good Full Face helmet, gloves and heavy boots.

I did not give the bike enuf clutch and she wand down hard.
My right wrist got sprained pretty bad, left ankle also and turned black and blue from the instep to halfway up the calf, inside of right knee from mid calf to mid thigh was really ugly and that is just the minor stuff.

The major impact came to my left elbow, shoulder and head.

The armour protected everything well and without it I am sure I would have had a concussion the the very least and probably and smashed elbow.

I heal slow in and within a month I did it again. Just landed somehow on back just left of midline and that took weeks for the pain to subside.

Now more of those pratfalls are not in the cards for me....I hope.