Testimonials / Letters - Letter 06Hi! My name is Roy Moore and I own a GSXR-1100, I also own a pair of draggin' jeans which I always wear. My friend, who must have stopped paying attention as we were almost home, lurched back against the rack on acceleration, he's a chubby bloke as well. This caused the front wheel to lift off the road, and not expecting this to happen I lurched back pulling open the throttle. The bike left us both in mid air as it wiped out and went sliding along the road, the two of us came crashing down and slid about 30 meters along the bitumen. When we stopped I lept straight up and ran over to check my bike and lift it up, it was badly grazed to say the least. My friend was slower getting up and when I asked how he was he said his knee was sore. His jeans which were just the usual denim jeans were all torn and his knee was bleeding badly. He had landed on top of me having his knee being the only part which contacted the road. I then checked myself over and found my leather jacket to be badly grazed all up the front and grazed on the arms, and my elbow cut and bleeding. My boots, black docs were grazed but still in one piece. My jeans were shiny all over the front from friction, but they were not torn or cut at all and my legs were fine, not grazed and not even bruised. My friend who had been wearing normal jeans went to hospital to be told he would need skin graft surgery for his knee, most likely taking skin from another well padded part of his body to fix the damage. I went to work 1/2 an hour later to do a night shift, and I owe my lucky escape from skin graft surgery to my draggin' jeans with kevlar inserts in the places which hit the road. I have since had my bike fixed and am riding again, but I don't go anywhere without wearing my draggin' jeans. My mates seeing how good they are have also bought a pair. These jeans won't save your life if you hit a truck, but your legs and bum will never have ugly scarring. We were lucky it wasn't a high speed accident and we didn't break anything apart from the bike, but it just goes to show any accident can give you scars for ever. My thanks to the draggin' jeans company. Roy Moore |
