Crashing your motorcycle can be a painful event, both physical and mentally. Heck, even a minor spill can hurt, but this didn’t stop this rider here from asking to be dragged by a car across the asphalt to see how it feels like to skid in leathers.
The idea came when DriveTribe user Shaun Pope saw a journalist called John Cantlie doing the same thing a few years ago and he was describing about his crotch area heating up during the skidding phase.
“I’ve had this weird idea for a while, one of those ideas that doesn't go away and gets worse on a drunken Friday evening out,” Shaun wrote in a post. “This idea ended in an email to the guys at ARMR Moto who provided me with one of their Harada one-piece suits. They were happy to let me wreck it for the purposes of very scientific testing. Or being dragged behind a car until I screamed like a girl...”
So, he hopped in the leathers, strapped some rope to the back end of a Peugeot, laid down behind, and told the driver to pull him. The procedure got repeated so Shaun could test out sliding both on this back and his belly.
He managed to resist some solid 20 seconds before things got nasty and it started to hurt bad, moment when he yelled at the driver to stop. The experiment led to some conclusions eventually.
First of all, skidding in leathers does make your crotch area go hot, and not in a good way. Secondly, his gear held well despite the abuse. It only got perforated in a few areas, but it wasn’t enough to damage the rider’s skin.
You can check out the whole “experiment” in the video below. It should go without saying this stunt was performed on a closed road and you should not attempt to replicate it.
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