Let’s say you’re riding a two-wheeled machine at some velocity and something goes wrong, and you end up sliding along the road for some distance (you were naughty and wore no protection). Will the fat and muscle of the section of your body you’re sliding on be scraped off? Will the body regenerate this lost tissue or leave you awkwardly unproportional?
Well, if the situation is extreme enough - you have sufficient speed, the roadway is sufficiently abrasive, you sliding a long enough distance - yeah, sure, once you’re past the skin the tissue underneath will get ground off. In fact, some poor unfortunates have not only lost skin, fat, and muscle tissue this way but have even ground a limb down to the bone. Or past the bone.
I was also once witness to a gruesome motocycle accident where the rider slid face-first on the pavement, and after a couple blocks the road ground off the faceshield of his helmet and –
:eek:
Hey, do you really want to hear about that?
(Where’s the barfing smilely???..)
That’s why only idiots wear T-Shirts and flip flops on a bike. I had the mis fortune of hitting a deer at around 50mph six years ago. I was dragged with the bike for a couple of hundred feet and suffered some pretty nasty road rash.
I would say that you would really have to be moving and slid a long way before it would get past your skin. Usually when you have a motorcycle accident you slide a lot less then the bike does because of the amount of contact points you would have on the road versus a bike. When I hit the deer I went a hundred feet or so, the bike went a couple of hundred because it’s held up on three or four points.
I’ve never heard of anyone grinding down past the skin, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, but the people I hang out with tend to wear much better clothing so that probably has something to do with it as well.