Hello all, it's been a long time since my last post.
Issues, things, stuff, events in life.
The Savage is still there, I even fitted a new tank on her.
Quite simply, she's been sitting put for about a year now, and not riding her means I focus on other forums.
Then, I get Easter Greetings from a Forum Member and WHAM!, it brings it all back!
So here I am
So, what have I been getting up to?
Some of you may recall I had a bad accident in July 2015, I broke three vertebrae and walked around with a chest brace for close to a year.
The BMW was junked.
Then, on April 1st 2016, I climbed back on - guess what, my Savage! - and started the good life again.
Or so I thought.
Come May 2019, I ride from Rome, Italy to Oxford, England (that's alooong ways EU-wise) to see my son in College and do a few Charity rides with the English (they can be quite fun guys) and on my way back to the ferry I have another accident.
Oh, dang !
A hurried lady commuter slammed into me from behind at a crossroads and literally launched me into the steel barrier (guardrail)
Last thing I remember, I was riding, looking at the sat-nav on my handlebars and making sure "you turn at the next Junction" and keeping an easy 25:30mph.
Then, not a sound, just a strong shove, and I am Flying through the air face down and I only have time to realize "this is not good"...
...I wake up lying on my back, EMT all over me, one complaining in a loud voice to a Policeman "it took me a bloody 20 minutes to get here, traffic and all!".
Put that together with other comments, EMT response time, I must have passed out and remained unconscious for at least 40'...
Once at ER I overhear EMT telling the ER staff they resuscitated me, I had a pulse but they weren't sure I was actually breathing.
So… five broken ribs, broken collarbone, badly bruised hipbone and left knee. I couldn't keep myself upright, much less stand.
Thank God I had a A+-quality FF Helmet, it's so badly scratched and dented it looks like it went through a grinder.
If I had had an open face helmet, I simply wouldn't have a face any more.
I kept it as a good omen.
I had morphine for the very first time in my life.
Lemme tell you, it wasn't that much of a high, or maybe I was the one too badly bruised to enjoy it.
Anyway, that was that. No win-no fee lawyer managed to squeeze a full £25000 from the defendand which almost halved once he took his fee.
What was left couldn't even cover medical expenses
But hey, who am I to complain...
I still have my arms, legs, head, even Mr.Wilkins works!
I have fond memories of green fields and Morgan Freeman (here's to you, Steve Carell!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9tKvduaGsU...aaand I plan to ride again once this Corona Flu scare is over
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