Out of action (Thanks car, please look where you're going)

**delusionz** · 26th August 2007, 13:33

No more bikes for me for a while, My 2007 Ninja was taken out by a stupid girl to my left pulling a U turn without looking, straight into my left side as I was in the median "TURN RIGHT LANE" making a right turn. I'm at this moment in the hospital with a broken shoulder and leg, the shoulder being the most serious as the bone snapped off the joint ball. My friends brought me round lots of toys to my ward including a laptop, nintendo DS & telecom wireless net card, lots of mags 2 read, got beats, movies, etc.

One of the police officers at the scene said my bike just haS cosmetic damage.

Have given alot of thought to bikes in general, I think I'm going to make my car my main mode of transport after this, although for now it will be taxi and friends as my clutch foot & gear change hand are out.

I'm still going to keep my bike as I'd still like to get my class 6 Full later on, but for now I have to get my 1R licen so I don't have to rely on my bike to get me around.

As many people have pointed out, It doesn't matter how good you are a rider, It's alwas going to be pricks out there who don't look and don't care about you and thats a sad lesson I've had to learn.

Sooo, soo gutted.

Edit: it happened outside greenlane foodtown on my way to one of my best mates birthday party, no i didn't make it (thanks again)

****Mike signing out**** Peace fellow riders, stay safe out there and remember you'ree not invincible!

**Her_C4** · 26th August 2007, 13:44

Originally Posted by delusionz

As many people have pointed out, It doesn't matter how good you are a rider, It's alwas going to be pricks out there who don't look and don't care about you and thats a sad lesson I've had to learn.

You are sooooo right

Hope she loses her licence?

Regardless, sad about the bike, but the good thing is you are in the place being looked after by the right people.

Good thoughts are with you for a speedy recovery

Don't give up on riding just yet (just until you are better!!!

)

**RantyDave** · 26th August 2007, 13:48

Originally Posted by delusionz

One of the police officers at the scene said my bike just haS cosmetic damage.

I think that means she was putting lipstick on when she hit you.

Other than that, bummer. At least she didn't scarper. And give it a while, biking may well come back to you.

Dave

**jrandom** · 26th August 2007, 13:48

My sympathies, delusionz. Best wishes for your recovery.

This backs up some recent comments I've made to a few people about how binning in a corner and smashing a bone or two due to one's own fuckup (like I did recently) doesn't tend to put one off riding, but being taken out unawares by a cage gives a lot of guys the shits and makes them think about giving up riding.

I can't help but wonder, though, whether the impression I've gotten over the last few years that it tends to be n00b riders who get taken out by other vehicles is correct. Paranoia and situational awareness on the road take practice. The sort of crash you've just had can teach you just as much about riding in traffic as going ditch-surfing can teach you about pushing it on the open road. It'd be a shame to waste your newly-acquired wisdom.

Give it time, let yourself heal, take it easy, burn no bridges. Whatever reasons you originally had for riding a motorcycle are no less valid than they were before the car hit you.

**dino3310** · 26th August 2007, 13:52

sorry to here about your accident mate,hope you heal fast and without to much pain.
didnt you know bikers are telepathic mind readers where meant to know what the cars are doing before they do it.
is the stupid bitch gonna be charged if she is let us know the out come,
all the best mate

**jrandom** · 26th August 2007, 13:57

Originally Posted by dino3310

didnt you know bikers are telepathic mind readers where meant to know what the cars are doing before they do it.

Nooooo, but after a while, you do get into the habit of not assuming that any given four-wheeled vehicle won't necessarily do anything that it could possibly do, within the bounds of physics, at any given moment.

Er, you know what I mean.

**delusionz** · 26th August 2007, 14:10

the officer at the scene said something about failure to give way or something like that. i dont wish any trouble for the driver, but i woulnt mind some ACC somehow dont know anything about it though i've never been in sucg a situation before

ohh yeah, recovery has been great, it happened on thurs, they operated on my shoulder the next morning, the paIn is mostly gone, just waiting for these bones to rejoin. apparently i have to quit smoking for recovery to succeed and ive wanted to quit anyways so thats good. plus bein stuck in the hospital bed i cant smoke neways so i have a head start on quittin neways

**apteryx_haasti** · 26th August 2007, 15:58

Hey - sorry to hear about your off -especially that it involved some twit driving in to you. I came off recently too (broken wrist, bad bruising - a picnic compared to you) thanks to some rain, a dork in front of me rear-ending the person in front of him and possibly some overenthusiastic braking on my part.

I agree with jrandom's comment - I haven't really been put off (i don't think - guess I'll find out for sure when I get back on) but I think I would have been if someone had hit me or I'd done something really, really dumb.

All the best for the recovery.

A_H

**paturoa** · 26th August 2007, 16:08

Sucks.

I always ride with my headlights on high beam after an "exercise" a couple of years ago with a driver pulling straight out of a give way into my path (an almost crash). Hasn't happened again, I think the lights help - twin high output bulbs on high beam is hard to miss even for a brain dead cager.

Originally Posted by delusionz

.. broken shoulder and leg, the shoulder being the most serious as the bone snapped off the joint ball...

Josh Coppins had that about 4 weeks ago and is riding tonight in the latest round of the FIM motocross. Yours might be worse

**delusionz** · 26th August 2007, 17:24

theres a chance my shoulder will never be put right .. just have to wait and see how it heals.

have read the aug 2007 rapid bikes mag from start 2 finish during my stay here in the ward... definitely alot of good stuff in there to keep me thinkin of staying on 2 wheels... incl turbo busas , gsxr streetfighters, nos ninjas, racing r1s, etc etc... lots of nice stuff there

**EJK** · 26th August 2007, 17:45

MAN!! Thats so sad man...
Hope you are healing fast lol
I was expecting to see you on the Mt. Eden Summit one day but won't happen anytime near huh?...

Man... So, does the insurance say anyting about this?

**gijoe1313** · 26th August 2007, 18:21

Dude, sorry to hear about your circumstances - I'm glad that nothing more "serious" occured

Sounds like you've had a little shake up over it and of course, lying in a hospital bed doesn't help matters. Glad you've got some great friends and interesting reading matter to help you take your mind off things.

Give it time, make haste slowly and keep us posted about any developments!

**jtzzr** · 26th August 2007, 18:39

Maximum Suckage mate , I hope you heal fast , don`t give up on bikes because of 1 persons brain failure ,good to hear your`e giving up smoking, I will one day but I`m not going to use your method to quit.

**Donor** · 26th August 2007, 18:54

Major suck!

PM me ya ward details, I'll pop in and say howdy during work, and give the nurses the word to give ye the VIP treatment

**zeocen** · 26th August 2007, 19:14

fuckin buggar eh
-cunty zeo-
if your windscreens still good, can I have it?

-nice zeo-
That just plain fucking sucks man, you really gotta get back on.. Infact after hearing you talk about biking most nights on MSN I'm pretty sure you will, confidence comes back a little at a time. You'll be fine

We done need full shoulder movement anyway, pff to moving body functions!