Comment on Why Leather Is Unbeatable - Motorcyclist Review While Sliding

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gnu@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It’s very possible if you’re travelling at normal road speeds. If you ever gave yourself a carpet burn as a kid you’ll remember that sliding from simply falling over at a running pace on carpet generates enough heat to be painful - on a motorbike you’re generally hitting the ground with a lot more speed and therefore have a lot more energy to dump into whatever slows you down.

Note also that in the video he’s travelling quite slowly and therefore can slide noticeably further before high heat levels build up than one would in a crash at even at 50km/h let alone 100km/h.

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