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I was just in the last stages of preparation before taking my IAM advanced test 
BikeSafe was really good day.
I also recommend the Fire Service free "Biker Down" course. If the guy following the people carrier hadn't known what to do at the accident scene, I almost certainly wouldn't be posting this!
BikeSafe was really good day.
I also recommend the Fire Service free "Biker Down" course. If the guy following the people carrier hadn't known what to do at the accident scene, I almost certainly wouldn't be posting this!
Edited by Tanguero on Saturday 10th June 12:07
Thank you all for your good wishes!
Recovery is a slow and painful business as any of you that have had major accidents will know. I still have at least one more major surgery (open heart, to repair the aneurysm) to go but even after nearly 9 weeks in hospital my hobbling round on a walking frame really isn't good enough to be thinking of going home yet.
The boredom of a long hospital stay is something else again...
Recovery is a slow and painful business as any of you that have had major accidents will know. I still have at least one more major surgery (open heart, to repair the aneurysm) to go but even after nearly 9 weeks in hospital my hobbling round on a walking frame really isn't good enough to be thinking of going home yet.
The boredom of a long hospital stay is something else again...
I found a love for riding that makes me wish that I had discovered bikes decades ago. In many ways, were I single, I would be straight back on a bike if I could get myself physically fit to do so. However making my wife wait to find out if I am going to live for a second time is not something I think is fair on her, so I am not going to ride again. That makes me very sad because in the couple of years that I had, I enjoyed it very much indeed.
I was perhaps arrogant in thinking that with sufficient advanced training I could put myself in a position where a serious accident would never happen to me. But I made a mistake, one that in other circumstances would have been no more than a squeaky bum moment and a learning experience, but as it happened, it came closer to finishing me than I care to dwell on.
None of that howsoever diminishes for one moment the sheer pleasure that I gained from learning to ride. As one of the good friends I made while riding once said to me said to me, and I can with authority say myself now "we are all going to die, but how many have really lived"
I was perhaps arrogant in thinking that with sufficient advanced training I could put myself in a position where a serious accident would never happen to me. But I made a mistake, one that in other circumstances would have been no more than a squeaky bum moment and a learning experience, but as it happened, it came closer to finishing me than I care to dwell on.
None of that howsoever diminishes for one moment the sheer pleasure that I gained from learning to ride. As one of the good friends I made while riding once said to me said to me, and I can with authority say myself now "we are all going to die, but how many have really lived"
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