Shaun Harris saying thanks

[Shaun]

Hi again crew, once again people's honesty and sense of humour have amused me again, hahahahaha

To say that I have learned a lot from this accident, just does not give the full impact of what I have learned, and what I am learning from it. It has taught me so much about human nature, a lot of it I already was aware of, but a lot of it has now been proven to me, buy being rubbed in my face.

THE ACCIDENT ITSELF

I have NO idea what happened in the accident at all, the corner I crashed in is a 6th gear corner on a 1000, and it is not the type or corner that a rider would crash in ( If that makes sense) I really cannot understand it?

The one thing about the crash that I do know is, My mechanic and good friend Kevin Stevens ( UK MAN ) told me in the hospital, that at the pit stop just before the crash, I had said to him whilst he was re fuelling the bike, that the bike was handling really bad, but I intended to finish the race to say thanks to my sponsors for supporting me. As I know myself very well, I know that the bike was not unsafe at that stage, but must have been a bag of shite for me to have even bothered commenting on it to Kev.

What I would have loved to have had done was, get the bike back from the police, ( Bikes are kept by the police for a period if rider is injured)
and have Kevin my mechanic go over what was left of it, to try and see if we could figure out what I was not happy about with it during the race.

Unfortunately, Stewart Black, the owner of the bike from "Blacks Bike Shop" was the person who ended up collecting the bike and taking it back to his shop. His buisness was only 45 minutes drive from the UK hospital I was in for quite a few weeks, but for some reason he could not find the time to come and see me, or to even send me a text message, to my UK cell phone he had the number of? So due to all of the above things, we never got to check this bike over, so will never actally know what caused the crash, bugger.

[Ivan]

Welcome back Shaun

In your short time in KB i think you touched a few people the generousity was great

[GSVR]

Thanks for your thoughts on the accident. At the sort of speed it happend at I doubt if even an eyewittness would have been able to pick up on what actually happend.

The fact that you are still here to talk about it is truely amazing.

[emaN]

good to see ya back online shaun and up and about!

re the crash; i knew i should'a stopped to take a pic of the marks left on the road...could the bike have 'decked out' and lifted itself?

man it made us pretty frikkin' worried when you didn't come past that lap (we were at Ballascary, just "up the road"), then RadioTT said you'd been bla bla bla....

was great watching ya until then though! go the kiwis!!

[ajturbo]

and the future for you is...?????

what are your plans?... still gona come and hassell the boys and girls at the tracks around the cuntry?.....

hope so

[Brett]

Shaun - so glad that you are home and on the mend. You certainly had a few of my prayers sent out for you!
I sincerely hope that the healing is swift.

Cheers mate

Brett

[Billy]

So we will see you at Manfeild this weekend then LOL.Good to see youre getting back to youre old self again,Hope to catch up sometime.Cheers Billy

[Keystone19]

Good to have ya back Shaun...

[RantyDave]

still gona come and hassell the boys and girls at the tracks around the cuntry?.....

Soon as I read "retired motorcycle racer" I was wondering this. Will there be a "nutter consulting ltd" that can be hired to show us crap intermediate riders how to go like a big'un? Could a bunch of us get together for "go faster" lessons when the weather picks up a bit?

Dave

[ajturbo]

Soon as I read "retired motorcycle racer" I was wondering this. Will there be a "nutter consulting ltd" that can be hired to show us crap intermediate riders how to go like a big'un? Could a bunch of us get together for "go faster" lessons when the weather picks up a bit?

Dave

i can see it now... shaun telling how to go faster .. and what to do.. and then ya bin it... he comes storming over and kicks ya.. now get up and do as i SAID!!....lol.. but that would be worth giving him some money for!......well????

[Shaun]

and the future for you is...?????

what are your plans?... still gona come and hassell the boys and girls at the tracks around the cuntry?.....

hope so

My Future mmmm

I am obviously still looking at what is the best thing for me to do with my life, and the best way for me to contibute to my families future?

Racing wise, I am definately an X racer myself, nothing to do with being scared or deppressed about my crash, just the simple fact that I am very lucky to be alive and to be in such a great state of physical condition, as well I am now to old to do any better on a race track for myself or sponsors than I have already achieved as a rider myself.

I do 100% intend to stay involved in our sport though, with out this sport, I would hate to see what kind of person I would have become, bike racing has shown me so much about life, and introduced me to some of the best people any one on earth has ever met, I am so incredibly lucky because of motor bikes.

I will be refining my race team set up to a much more, tuition orientated set up in the future, ie, helping up and comers with machine and mental set up approach.

I will be staying involved with MOTO TT Track days as a coach adviser for riders wanting to ask questions and perhaps to help make them a safer more knolegeable rider.

So YES, I will still be heavily involved in racing, and due to my accident, I will now manage and approach this task with a more open mind approach than in the past, as I have already learned a lot more about life in the last month or so, and so much more about myself every day of the week.

In Reallity, the accident I have had is a blessing in disquise ( Strange-Sick) but if I was to be totally honest about it, I have been shown so much about life and people, and now love my family and friends with more passion than before, and all of that is only going to get better as I learn to adapt and change to my new life, so Rock on one and all.

[beyond]

Awesome to see you back online and to hear you are home and perky as ever
Bummer you will probably never know what caused it. That alone would cause a bit of mental anguish.

Yep, in the bad times you really begin to know how other people tick and how great they can be.

Mucho respect to you and to Fiona

[Robbo]

Welcome back Shaun, i hope your life returns to normal very soon.
Best Regards to You and Your Family.
Cheers

[Sully60]

Good to have ya back in Unzud Shaun.
And good to hear your on the road to recovery, you had us worried for a while there!
As a racer it must be hard not being able to asscertain what caused the crash but I imagine you work through that.

Looking forward to seeing you at the track real soon!

[shafty]

Welcome home Shaun and congratulations on your recovery so far - had us fair shittin ourselves there for a while.Total respect for your change of direction - you certainly have no need to prove your racing ability. Take it easy.