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When you think of it....if you experience road rash at a high rate of speed ...jeans are not going to last long anyway. A 50 mile an hour drag on hot gravelly pavemnt will eat right thru in a heartbeat.




Having "done the dance" at 65mph, wearing heavy jeans, a heavy jacket, and a full face bucket, no leathers...I can tell you that without the jeans I would have looked totally different at the end of the slide. Possibly because of the high rate of speed, or the oil on the ramp, but my jeans had little or no damage...I think I "skipped" like a stone on water, not sure that I would want to do that on bare skin! (check that, POSITIVE I would not want to do that on bare skin!) Now I ride with leathers top to bottom! and having seen the condition of the helmet...never again without one( though the one I ride with now is not full face) I too ran with a tank top, shorts, and sandals, in my youth...fortunatly I survived long enough to see the folly of my ways...

THE VOICE OF REASON per: Stewart AF&AM/Shriner/Scoutmaster 130/45 TBS 2shim SS Uni 18/42