Rossi and his leathers

I know Rossi rides a motorbike, but my left thigh was definitely competing against his cornering skills, seriously though,be carefull cos heading east past tesco's off mare street,left hand corner under the bridge - proper stacked it, its real slippery.......both wheels in other postcode so beware the cold weather, honestly my thigh looks like Gorbachov's face.....

Decomposed is never a good look...

does that mean that as a child i was looking at a corpse on the bbc 10 o clock news! hmmm maybe i should join the witch-hunt and write a letter of complaint ;)..or maybe i should ditch my poncy 'no grip' continentals....yeah right!!! personaly i blame the weather

Sorry about your road rash pony, that's rough. Thanks F* you didn't break anything.

I used to live about 100 yards from there (Morning Lane/ Ponsford Street junction by the sounds of it), until a couple of weeks ago.

Thanks for the heads up :)

haha road rash, nice one, thing is i wasnt going quick....january will be tough cos its dead icy, thanks for the note;)

Glad to hear it :)

"Road rash" is a biker (motor bike) term - it's nasty, where your skin has been pounded into tarmac/gravel/what-have-you for 50-odd yards and you're flesh has been ground down to the bone. It's nasty, and it's why Rossi wears his leathers!

Glad you're all good.

"Road rash" is a biker (motor bike) term

cough there's a cack load of veteran cyclists who would question that particular etymology

duh, road rash is a video game...

cough there's a cack load of veteran cyclists who would question that particular etymology

Fair do's... that's just how I came across it (no pun intended)

:)

me too what with rossi and leathers n all

Cyclists often refer to abrasions from crashes as "road rash."
http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/injuries/a/abrasions.htm

cos he's good at sliding round corners, and he wears leathers....