Yeah, I bought decent gear but definitely not top quality. Still, it protected me a ton. I had track boots, armored kevlar jeans, full top armor under a leather jacket, gloves with metal knuckles, modular helmet.

Unfortunately, it seems like the gloves and kevlar jeans sucked. Broke my hand, road rash on both hands, road rash all over my left knee on the side of where the jean armor was. The spine protector part of my top armor kicked ass, no damage to spine or neck. No pain there at all. However, very little armor on the sides and it most likely fractured my ribs. I'll take fractured ribs over a fractured spine for sure though...

Also, the helmet was good but I guess it didn't fit perfectly because it felt like I got punched in the face and I probably KOd for 5 or 10 seconds. It did it's job for the most part, as in it looked like I slid on the front and my face was protected, but that impact left a nasty bruise and the foam inside was barely damaged.

It definitely taught me a lesson about gear. Need a perfectly fitting full face helmet, spine protector is a must, and now I'm thinking maybe a one piece race suit kind of thing with the same boots but better gloves if that's safer. I want better armor that protects my ribs more if that exists, and more armor around the hip too. I need to do some research. If my insurance will cover replacement, may as well hunt for something good instead of some piece by piece set up like I had. Road rash sucks.