Women’s Motorcycle Boots, Well Fitted Helmet and Leather Riding Gear
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Women’s motorcycle boots are not the only thing you should be concerned with wearing when you ride your motorcycle.
Although, women’s motorcycle boots are very import and you should never ride with out them, there is other important riding gear that you should wear, “and it can save your life!”
Besides motorcycle boots, you should wear a good quality leather motorcycle jacket, a pair of leather motorcycle riding pants or chaps, full finger leather gloves and the correct size helmet.
I know a lot of you women might think that wearing all that stuff is just over kill. Well, I can assure you that if you value your life, body parts and even your skin it isn’t.
I would like to share with you a very painful and true story about a girl named Brittany, who learned just how valuable wearing the correct helmet, women’s motorcycle boots and riding gear truly is, the hard way.
As the story unfolds, it seems that Brittany Morrow, a young woman in her early 20s decided to go for a motorcycle ride with her friend Shaun. Instead of putting on a pair of women’s motorcycle boots and leather motorcycle apparel she decided to wear an over sized helmet, a pair of Capri jeans, tennis shoes and a sweatshirt over her bikini. Brittany was under the false elusion that that most of us have from time to time, “she wouldn’t’ get into an accident, it could never happen to her.”
Shaun road a Suzuki GSX-R 750 sports bike, so on the back, Brittany was seated higher than Shaun. The oversized helmet that Brittany was wearing began to pull on her and caused her to lose her grip on Shaun. Brittany was blown right off the back of the bike at a very high rate of speed.
As Brittany recalls, “I felt a rush of wind hit my face like a brick and our bodies separated in an instant; my visor had come completely open. The force pulled on my face and helmet so hard that it sent my head up and backwards, ripping my entire body off the back seat with it”.
This poor young woman hit the ground so hard it forced every ounce of breath she had in her body out as she slid, tumbled and ground her way to a stop on the hard unforgiving pavement.
If Brittany had the right size helmet on this accident may have been avoided. If she had started out on her motorcycle ride wearing a good pair of women’s motorcycle boots and protective motorcycle gear, what followed next could have been a lot less severe as it turned out to be.
Brittany lost her left breast; she ground the skin off from 55% of her body, severed the tendons to her left pinky, dislocated her left toe and received 31contusions. All in all she had to have 8 reconstructive surgeries, not to mention all of the other complications involved with a injuries this severe.
I can honestly say that this young lady was lucky to be alive.
Could most of her injuries been avoided? I would have to say yes. Had Brittany started her ride wearing a well fitted helmet, full-fingered gloves, a leather motorcycle jacket or vest, leather riding pants or leather chaps and a good pair of women’s motorcycle boots she would have probably sustained only minor injuries and a few bruises.
If you would like to read the Brittany’s full story, “Extreme Road Rash: Cause, Effect, and Lesson Learned”, you can find it here http://www.backroadsusa.com/home.html/Brittanys_Story.html.
Brittany’s Story really hit home to me. I hope what this poor young woman went through; will work as a wakeup call to you. This is where you live, this is as real as it gets. If you think it can’t or won’t happen to you, don’t be fooled. It can and sooner or later, it will.
I leave you with this. “Please don’t ride on your own bike someone else’s motorcycle with out first putting on a helmet fit for you, the right motorcycle safety gear and a good pair of women’s motorcycle boots!”
