one more gone. i know theres alot of them and i used to see them when i was riding all the time. well mines gone now. i wrecked a few months ago and just got out of the hospital a few weeks back. was in there 6 weeks. i was going around a curve and i lowsided i guess and me and the bike slid and hit a guard rail. my friends called 911 and a ambulance came and took me to a local airport where the lifeflight helicopter picked me up and flew me to a bigger hospital about 50 miles away. i ended up with a brain injury and a badly broken elbow. i had on jeans, gloves, helmet, and leather jacket. the helmet and jacket saved my life. im still going to therapy for my elbow and will never get full motion back. i got 2 plates and 14 screws in it now. hehe. xrays look really cool. hehe. i remember about 1 hr before my wreck and 14 days after. i wasnt out that long but i dont have any memory of being in the hospital those 2 weeks. really wierd stuff. so i have no idea what happened. if i was speeding or what not. my bike is totaled now. broke one of the forks and bent them back. trashed all the fairings. grinded the engine covers off and cracked the block and bent the crank. some bad ****. im doing better now and just tryin to fix my arm. oh yeah hospital food sucks. there are some hot nurses though. and therapists. hehe

 

Glad you're doing better! Will you again, ride? My buddy high sided, he was sooo lucky. His harley landed on him too.

Thanks for the post and let us know how things progress!



[Modified by mad skillz, 7:58 PM 10/31/2001]

 

Physical/occupational therapy's gonna take a while.

Took me 8 months to get 95% range of motion back on my wrist. Just keep doing what you need to do to rebuild the muscles and strengthen the bones.

Good luck, hope you go get back on a bike eventually.

 

will i ride again? when i was in the hospital i said heck yeah. but now that ive gotten out i have had more time to think about it and i'm not gonna get another. i dont want to put my family or friends through this again. expecially not my parents. cause i dont remember the pain, but i know it hurt my parents seeing me in that trauma room. and then having to use a wheel chair cause i didnt know how to walk anymore. i had money for a down payment on another, but im gonna put it into my hybrid now and get it running good. maybe someday when i have more money ill ride again. this was my first bike but i have alot of experence on dirt bikes and a little on street bikes. im not really scared cause i dont remember anything, but i would be thinking about this time and not knowing its gonna happen. thanks for your support guys

 

HOLY ****

your lucky to be here

 

Does anyone have an estimate on how fast you were going? Is the loss of memory what you meant by the brain injury?

 

brain injusy is where you hurt your brain...i had brain swelling. you can have brain bruising or bleeding. brain injury is really scary and i had never heard of it before this. they think about 65-70. which would be not bad at all cause they said i had a good line. just sand or gravel or something. oh well **** happens.

 

Good luck bro.

 

Glad your better...My friend is still in the hospital...150mph hit a dip in the road flew 800ft....he was in a coma for 7 days on life support. They pulled the plug last Saturday and he woke up! Hope he can recover like you did. . .good luck man.

 

yeah thats not good. 150 then hitting a dip....mine was bad, but not that bad. hope he gets better.

 

hey i finally finished up therapy for my arm. i cant get it straight or bend it all the way, but they say thats the best its going to get. its for than the dr thought i could get. oh well....guess ill live with what i have.....if i got another bike i couldnt lean over all the way cause my arm wont let me.

 

wow man. other than that you feeling good?

 

Sorry to hear about your accident. Hope you are doing ok.

I know that you post is kiind of old, but you don't happen to still have the wrecked bike do you? I'm looking for some F4i stock camshafts.

 

nah the insurance got it....yeah i feel better other than my f--ed up arm...it doesnt hurt usually, but just cant do much with it as far as mech work

 

i know how it is.... i wrecked on dec 9th.. was going on the 710 at about 75 in the left most lane on a long curve..some *** in a sedan wasnt looking and flew into my lane... i tried to avoid him and hit the curb.. somehow managed to stay straight..went into a tankslapper then pulled out of that hitting a tree root..crashed going about 60-65... thankgod there was that 100 yard stretch of grass there..i was able to walk away with a concussion, sprained neck, broken rib,bruised ribs, a really gnarly 12 inch bruise on my left and other aches and pains.... if my bike had been ridable i would have ridden it home... its still in the shop... I just keep thinking if i had crashed 30 feet before i would have gone into the cement center devider....i would be dead. But thats not going to stop me... il just have to be more careful... i cant wait to get my bike back.... if you look at it from the right side it looks fine...but i bent the gearshifter, ed all the plastic up, bent the rear subframe, sheared the left foot peg right off, also sheared the left handlebar off... man im so damn lucky

 

man...all these stories really make me think twice about riding. right now i only ride if its on sunny days between 60-80 degrees, with all the gear i can afford. otherwise its in the cage for me.

 

damn motorcycles.....fatal attraction. I just about jizz everytime i see gixxers and R6/R1s

 

after four years of riding hard (knock on wood) never had an accident. good to hear your doing better man. my best friend and my brother both hit by cars. couple months ago i lost a close friend of mine to an explorer. going into a turn to hot, slammed the front brake, back wheele came up, crossed the line then he hit the explorer. after that im hanging up the keys. going to buy an rsx-typeS. for everybody that still rides on the street, be carefull and think about track days with nesba. much better than the street and also safer. http://www.nesba.com/