The highside life

Trackday tumble lets Lee test his premium protective kit. Every cloud…

GLOVES 1, HANDS 0 Gloves resisted the crash well, with just scuffs on the palm and fingers. But the hands inside them didn’t fare so well: Lee broke his right scaphoid. SKIN-SAVER The mix of 1.1 and 1.3mm-thick Italian cowhide has shrugged off the crash with just a few scuffs. If not for the torn knee, it’d be fine to wear again. I WAS OFF-LINE overtaking somebody at Rockingham when I lost the rear and highsided my Suzuki SV650. In the brief period between thinking, “It’s all going wrong ” and the consequences of it all going wrong, there’s plenty of time to reflect. One of my more printable thoughts was, “It’s good job I’m wearing proper quality kit. This shouldn’t be too painful…” For the most part, that rang true. It has reaffirmed my…

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RiDE United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2017

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