Mirconium posted:

Went down hard today in DC. I don't normally ride there, but this time I got caught in the city, with rain coming down to boot.

DC is one of those cities with trolley rails that overlap regular road lanes, and boy did I not appreciate the danger of those fuckers when wet. My front wheel fell into the groove formed by one of the rails and seeing as it was polished and wet I immediately lost any semblance of traction. But the real fun was that even angling my wheel wouldn't let me out of the rut because instead of turning my bike would just keep sliding along. So the bike just sort of slid out from under me, then on top of me, and then I got dragged under for 30 feet, riding on top of my knuckles which somehow got tucked under me.

Bless all my gear, the only thing that failed were the gloves, which really took the brunt of the accident, but got chewed all the way through. Now I have a wound I don't even want to look at on my knuckles, and I sincerely hope it doesn't need stitches, because I ain't goin to no ER tonight. Probably tomorrow. Doesn't appear to be bleeding any more though, so hopefully it's fine.

Also bless frame sliders, only damage is to my long suffering exhaust and one turn signal. the slider itself did get ground pretty gnarly though.

Can confirm that airbag jacket is really cool, I felt NOTHING on my torso. A+ would tolerate mediocore Helite construction again.

Stay safe yall, wet metal is the loving devil. Also this is really convincing me that i need to learn to ride dirt.