A shower came by about ten days go when I just got home from work. I was already in my shorts and forgot the bike was outside and not in my garage. I usually let it cool down before bringing it in.

Well I moved the bike in the garage and for some stupid reason I leaned over to look on the other side of my bike and the pipe got me pretty bad. It's a second degree burn, about the size of a baseball. I've been taking care of it and I even went to the emergency room last night just to make sure it was ok. The doc told me it looks good and to continue what I have been doing which is letting it get a lot of air, cleaning it constantly and adding a lot of neosporin. He said after ten the days, if I was getting an infection, it would have spread up my leg. The redness has been staying in the area of the burn.

Just wanted everyone to be careful. This thing hurts. I'm usually good with pain but it's more of an annoyance. I always wear jeans when riding. Last night I bought a pair of light motorcycle pants to wear over my pants just to make sure and be safe of course.

When I took the driver course I see why they stressed so much as getting off the left side of the bike instead of the right. But being human, I forgot and got burned for it. Literally.  

Z, please get off your bike to refuel. More that once I've seen riders spill fuel that got on their clothes, & 1 time watched a bike go up in flames when the owner dripped fuel on the exhaust. Watching him trying to get away from the bike was not amusing. Luckily he got away with minor burns to his hands but the bike was a total loss. ATGATT won't help much in that situation. :'(

Aloe vera will help it heal faster and usualy keep it from scarring to bad.
Coat it liberaly.

web, I forgot how much experience you have on motorcycles. You are now nearly a full fledged member. To get the full experience, you need to wreck, so we don't really hold you to that.   I was talking to a friend the other day whose daughter burned her leg (As I said she would when she bought it.) I also told her I can look at her leg and tell what make, year and model it was that made the scar. I started in the mid 60s with a Honda Super Cub scar. I was really quite proud. Anbody else got that inside knee/calf scar? I thought so.  

A little update on the burn. Some paranoid people in my life, cough cough parents, begged me to go see a doctor so I went to the emergency room. Everything is cool. The burn is healing fine. The doc said there will be barely any visible scarring.

Mine's on my left shoulder... ... size of a egg...

Still there after 8 years...  never tans or freckles,... sunburns real easy...

It took a month but the burn has finally healed. And like the doctor said no scarring. I woke up to a normal scabless leg this morning. I thought for sure I was going to get a scar since it was a second degree burn. But after 2 tubes of neosporin and just leaving it uncovered most of the time it healed nicely.

Lesson learned. (again)

Oh my, hope it heals well.

Don't feel silly about burning yourself on a bike muffler......its a given.

Don't believe me, ask anyone who has owned one more than a month,  you will burn yourself.

NO, silly is when you take the baler apart to fix one of the guides/guards (for the um-teenth time ) and heat the mounting plate with a torch to beat it back into shape, then weld.  Then, once done welding, you cut power to the torch, take it out of the clamp, and as it drops as it should (per Newton and Gravity) you forget and try to catch it with the hand that you were NOT wearing the welding glove on......now THATS silly.

and man did I pay for it.

God bless you and speed your healing,

Farmer