Whew ! some @$$ puckering stories there .
In 2007 I was on my way to work at 04:00 on my 2000 Kawasaki W650, a lovely little bike that does what a 1967 Triumph Bonneville was supposed to do but with out any of the down sides .
I stopped for a red light and woke up in a meat wagon, I looked up and saw the Styrofoam ceiling and truck reverse light doing interior light duty and knew I was in a bad way so I didn't move my head / arms, I did carefully make sure all ten fingers followed by ten toes worked O.K., I now have a metal plate and eight screws in my neck and a shattered L1 vertebrae, the gypsy cab that hit me going 50 + MPH was an ex cop car (Full size Ford Panther) so the horizontal part of the push bar shattered that one vertebrae but some how didn't even bruise the discs above nor below it so I'm still walking albeit with a cane and I now sleep in a recliner .
It tool about a year to convalesce, mostly in a wheel chair, I was very glad I'm not a fool who takes off every bit of sick time the instant it's earned as I went through 23 years worth of it and was on reduced pay by the time I was able to work again .
During my wheel chair time I was looking at the then new Ural Solo sT and my Sweet asked was I going to buy a new Motocycle when I couldn't yet walk, thought about that for three days and ordered it, took me another whole year before I could go pick it up .
I'm still riding and like most older riders have other crash stories and way too many learly got hit stories .
Don't quit, keep riding ! .
In 2007 I was on my way to work at 04:00 on my 2000 Kawasaki W650, a lovely little bike that does what a 1967 Triumph Bonneville was supposed to do but with out any of the down sides .
I stopped for a red light and woke up in a meat wagon, I looked up and saw the Styrofoam ceiling and truck reverse light doing interior light duty and knew I was in a bad way so I didn't move my head / arms, I did carefully make sure all ten fingers followed by ten toes worked O.K., I now have a metal plate and eight screws in my neck and a shattered L1 vertebrae, the gypsy cab that hit me going 50 + MPH was an ex cop car (Full size Ford Panther) so the horizontal part of the push bar shattered that one vertebrae but some how didn't even bruise the discs above nor below it so I'm still walking albeit with a cane and I now sleep in a recliner .
It tool about a year to convalesce, mostly in a wheel chair, I was very glad I'm not a fool who takes off every bit of sick time the instant it's earned as I went through 23 years worth of it and was on reduced pay by the time I was able to work again .
During my wheel chair time I was looking at the then new Ural Solo sT and my Sweet asked was I going to buy a new Motocycle when I couldn't yet walk, thought about that for three days and ordered it, took me another whole year before I could go pick it up .
I'm still riding and like most older riders have other crash stories and way too many learly got hit stories .
Don't quit, keep riding ! .
