Jay,
I’ve been thinking long and hard about how to put this e-mail,
i can understand that
I still recall the day that Pete to say that you had been involved in a bad bike crash survived , the good news is that you are alive and as I see from the photos Pete has sent over you look like your in a great deal of pain but your still smiling.
other pix on way to you as well
Now I thought my crash was bad but you had to go and do it considerably better than me. I still recall the actual crash very vividly
me, too
my last words as my bike slid-shimmied before the un-assing
then i cranked the throttle
i tried to stand, fell over on my side
paramedics …
what’s your name ?
how many fingers ?
can we cut your leathers off ?
and then the next hour or so, my brother was 1st at the A&E and I simply asked him to knock me out,
how?
strangely I spouted TS Eliot poem from the gurney upon entering Winchester Shock Trauma
from that point I was pretty much out for a week, I lost 5 stone (70kg)
over the course of how long?
me, 1 stone (14 pounds?)
and my family said that all I had to eat was a ice cubes, don’t worry the weight soon comes back on. As for my bike, it was sold whilst I was in hospital and I did not see it on the road for over a year, a close friend kept the fuel tank and showed me the damage much later. I promised my family that I would never ride a bike again,
me, too
however, I felt that I had to break that promise, so I arrange for a friend to meet me at the scene of the accident on the day I came out of hospital and I took his bike for a ride,
i remember this story from one of our adventures
I just had to prove to myself that the actual accident was not all my fault,
mine was all my fault
i’ve done my own analysis and it seems pretty clear
I’m still sure that I was probably going to fast for the corner, but if the car had not pulled out in front of me I might just have made it. I have been thinking long and hard recently about getting a new bike for the short commute to work,
i’d like to hear more about your thoughts on this
but I’m just not sure, do you thing following a full recovery that you would ever ride again,
it’s quite possible
i love the bike, the track, the chicks
i was training for my racing license
was going to test for it this weekend at Virginia Intl Raceway
i planned to do this, get good, instruct well into me 60s
Ma’s struck by my apparent lack of upset-ness about the wreck
figures i’m delaying, being just intellectual about it
I’ve had no sense of near-death experience
no life-changing, gonna-live-differently-now revelation
if so, I promise not to tell your Mum if you don’t tell mine.
right-o, unnerstood
Let me know what you think.
All the very best
Jon
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