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Hello there

I called in after seeing your letter in the MAG mag (ha ha). Brilliant idea for a website. And after I've read other people''s stories I feel very lucky. I got my brill ( well I thought it was ) xj900 written off in June 2005, being hit by a boy racer, in of all places, my local tesco's petrol station!! My right foot was skewered by a foot peg and my right thigh bone snapped in two. Three years later I have a limp, no sensation in my bottom half of my foot, and lots of pain in my leg but I'm alive and still riding, just not as much as I used to.

The worst things about the accident was that people said I had only myself to blame for my injuries because I was a biker and riding a 900cc bike, my family saying they would disown me if I rode again, and the response from other bikers, who treated me like a leper. Thanks to my wife and true biker friends who supported me whilst recuperating and my decision to ride again.
Hey Tom,

Nice to meet you and cheers for popping by and saying yo. I know what you mean about the way some other bikers treat you after you've had an accident - it's almost like they really don't want to know about it at all. I guess it makes sense as it's an aspect they don't really want to think about and ignore it by simply enjoying riding but in the same breathe, you all of a sudden realise who's important and sticks by you when you've had an accident and really need some support eh?

As I say, nice to meet you and take it easy on 2 mate.
Hi Pete

Ta for reply, you're right, out of sight, out of mind. Keep up with good work with the website .

From being a jeans, doc martin boots, black leather jacket wearing biker, I am now a white helmet, fluorescent vest, advanced test motorcyclist. Am I becoming mature, or is it down to headbutting a vauxhall sri astra's windscreen sending me a bit funny in the head????
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Hey, if wearing that stuff instead lessens chances of having another bash, it's gotta be worth it. (He said over maturely Smile )
Hi Tom, I passed my IAM teat 10 years back but I dont wear a day-glo vest..... my worst accident was when I was 18 (1975) when I lobbed a Trton up the road, my fault entirely. I had support from my parents and find it hard to imagine being ostracised by family members for an road accident....... I now live in France and was recently married but have been part of this family since '05, I have had two get offs, both on oil both at track days both on old Triumph Triples the 1st year '06 I bashed the side of my knee but it was all the protection which minimised the injuries and was back riding on a circuit 3 weeks later ( I fell of a good friends bike ) on my Triumph . The following year I went down again, but high sided and broke my shoulder blade, it fortunately healed quickly but the muscles and tendons are taking longer.........the point of this is that at NO time were family or Friends unsupportive or distant; I think that the U.K. has always suffered from a lack of warmth and this is especially apparent when looking in from the outside after being immersed in a different culture. Keep riding, 'cos you will never please your dearly beloveds by bending to their narrow minded snobbery.
johnnyrvf Wrote:Hi Tom, I passed my IAM teat 10 years back but I dont wear a day-glo vest..... my worst accident was when I was 18 (1975) when I lobbed a Trton up the road, my fault entirely. I had support from my parents and find it hard to imagine being ostracised by family members for an road accident....... I now live in France and was recently married but have been part of this family since '05, I have had two get offs, both on oil both at track days both on old Triumph Triples the 1st year '06 I bashed the side of my knee but it was all the protection which minimised the injuries and was back riding on a circuit 3 weeks later ( I fell of a good friends bike ) on my Triumph . The following year I went down again, but high sided and broke my shoulder blade, it fortunately healed quickly but the muscles and tendons are taking longer.........the point of this is that at NO time were family or Friends unsupportive or distant; I think that the U.K. has always suffered from a lack of warmth and this is especially apparent when looking in from the outside after being immersed in a different culture. Keep riding, 'cos you will never please your dearly beloveds by bending to their narrow minded snobbery.
Hello Johnny

Well I might just be losing my sense of fashion, but then I didn't have much to lose to begin with. But putting on a day glo vest did give my confidence a boost when starting riding again, bit like a security blanket like that kid off Snoopy ha ha.

I can understand the recation of my family, but they didn't understand the motorbike and what riding has meant to me. My in laws are different, I met my wife through a bike club, and my father-in-law has been riding for about 35 years. Just ended moving out of direct area from my family and just don't rub it their face, but it is still my life and biking is part of it, to give up on it altogther would be killing a part of me. I was unfortuate to be in the wrong place and wrong time, and to be hit by someone not fit to have a driving licence, proven by getting himself banned and then caught driving whilst disqualified twice within 12 months.
Hi Tom, I understand the bit about not giving up the bikes, I'm diabetic, I started off as type 2 but now am on insulin, the main motivation for controlling the condition is so I can keep on riding until I literally die of old age, the Medical system over here is much better than the UK and I am checked for all sorts of things, a French citizen has the right to a full FREE medical check-up every 5 years after the age of 45, something the NHS could'nt afford, not with it's parasitical free market economy ethos that has been evolved by various political administrations; although Sarkosi the new president might try to employ Thatcher type fiscal restrictions on the system; having said that any real degradation would result in riots in the streets, something the British will never do.......I still find it difficult to accept the snobbery of the British, motorcycling has never lost it's poor mans transport image from immediate post war Britain in the U.K. and is seen as something undignified and therefore undesirable, the press have never really tried to fundamentally change the image and it's only people like McKewan, Boorman? and Saunders who are capturing the publics imagination but I doubt if it will ever be embraced as it is on mainland Europe. As to the *rse who was responsible for the accident, I had several incidents of complete idiots driving into me over the years, 5 times whilst stopped at traffic lights and many more in all sorts of stupid situations I got used to hearing I did'nt see you as an excuse, however I was fortunate that I was driving large goods vehicles at the time ( up to 44 tonnes), they often looked very upset as they climbed out of the wrekage, me I was as sarcastic and uncaring as possible, simply because if they had'nt been been driving into me, they could have been driving into someone far more vunerable. Johhny.
johnnyrvf Wrote:Hi Tom, I understand the bit about not giving up the bikes, I'm diabetic, I started off as type 2 but now am on insulin, the main motivation for controlling the condition is so I can keep on riding until I literally die of old age, the Medical system over here is much better than the UK and I am checked for all sorts of things, a French citizen has the right to a full FREE medical check-up every 5 years after the age of 45, something the NHS could'nt afford, not with it's parasitical free market economy ethos that has been evolved by various political administrations; although Sarkosi the new president might try to employ Thatcher type fiscal restrictions on the system; having said that any real degradation would result in riots in the streets, something the British will never do.......I still find it difficult to accept the snobbery of the British, motorcycling has never lost it's poor mans transport image from immediate post war Britain in the U.K. and is seen as something undignified and therefore undesirable, the press have never really tried to fundamentally change the image and it's only people like McKewan, Boorman? and Saunders who are capturing the publics imagination but I doubt if it will ever be embraced as it is on mainland Europe. As to the *rse who was responsible for the accident, I had several incidents of complete idiots driving into me over the years, 5 times whilst stopped at traffic lights and many more in all sorts of stupid situations I got used to hearing I did'nt see you as an excuse, however I was fortunate that I was driving large goods vehicles at the time ( up to 44 tonnes), they often looked very upset as they climbed out of the wrekage, me I was as sarcastic and uncaring as possible, simply because if they had'nt been been driving into me, they could have been driving into someone far more vunerable. Johhny.
Well in the good old UK where the national pasttime is shopping and trying to out do your neighbour on whose got the biggest television, where kids no longer walk to school, and have to be chauffeured to the school gates, and we have to drive everywhere, even 100 yards up the road to pick up a newspaper, it's no wonder that anyone that actually rides two wheel transport is seen as being mental or poor or a combination of both ailments.

I've my HGV licence, and had quite a few near misses with idiotic car drivers, who have no understanding on how different vehicles have to be driven. It's a pity that there is not a part of the car driving test where you have to pass a cbt on a moped/motorcycle.

I would have loved to seen your response to an idiot that didn't see your HGV. Reminds me of the time a vauxhall nova drove out of a side road and wedged itself under my flatbed's side rails whilst I was stopped in traffic on a main road, her response was " Look at what you have done to my car"
I only laughed when the police came and charged with driving without due care and attention.
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