ORIGINAL: jtCowboy

I bought and then crashed in an Icon Timax Mesh Jacket. I was going approximately - 50 miles per hour when I wrecked. Adeer jumped the bike hitting me in the head. I flew off the bike and hit the road. I slid over pavement, then to small gravel, then to larger (fist size) rocks and then ended up in the dirt next to a large gas pipe coming out of the ground. The deer died on impact. My Icon jacket had a hole on my left shoulder where the pad moved and the mesh was ground away. It ground right down to my shoulder and took off an old scar I had from an older wreck. I have pictures of the jacket I was wearing. I will try and put them on here. The jacket did real well. After I wrecked my Ninja, I bought my 98 CBR600F3 Smokin Joes and I am still wearing the same Icon Jacket. My helmet was a mess. Scratches and gouges all over it. I am glad I was wearing a helmet. The helmet was an HJC-15. I was also wearing Aviation Pilot gloves. Somewhere during the wreck the gloves came off.My hands became skinned up a little. I now wear the Icon Jacket and Icon Gloves, leather bootsand a new helmet everywhere I go. I have owned 3 previous motorcycles and I have had deer HIT ME (not me run into them) on all three previous motorcycles over a period of 15 years. Needless to say I am a little "gun-shy" (deer-shy). My CBR has a D&D exhaust on it and it is freakin loud! The last time I saw deer - while I was riding - they were 300 yards away running away from my loud bike (I presume), but I still don't trust'em. they are out to get me!