mini meeeeeee
Sorry to hear about your sons collision. I too dread the day I may get one of those calls, whether it be son on bike or daughter in car. Hopefully that will be your (his) quota filled already and its good that he doesn't seem to have come out of it too badly. Given the number of emergency crew at the scene if it had been me turning up there I'd have probably had a heart attack and had to join him in the ambo! Have you recovered yet?
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Originally Posted by Katman
Born to be mild
My son-in-law did that about three years back. Collected by a u turning vehicle, over the bonnet, bounced down the road, ambulance, police, the whole nine yards (sorry, 8.2296 metres). He came back pretty well though and was right as rain in a few days. Pretty resilient these yung'uns.
Not a good phone call to receive at 6.50 am though for sure!
Grow older but never grow up
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he is back homelimping about now and hoping the bike will be fixed in time for the vincent rally, good job i bought a spares bike last week
Likes kiwifruit...
Did he get to beat the shit out of the guy who did not stop? I would...... Once some dude knowcked me over on my push bike and i bet him up. The docters did not know if i had broken my arm in the crash or the beating lol (BTW i was on th freeking footpath)
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Great attitude Jim. Glad your boy is okay.he is back home
Rest In Peace
Having your kids hurt is really tough isn't it Jimjim. You spend your whole life trying to protect them and you know you can't really.
In a bizzare way this is a good story. It's not about young hoon going too fast and hitting things or just plain falling off. Sorry for his hurt, good awareness lesson and you still have your boy all in one (slightly creaky) piece.
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Yeah that sounds appropriate to beat an elderly gent
Moron.
Wow Jim, he's a lucky lad aye. Got off real light. I had a similar thing happen to me in mid June last year except it was the opposite end of the age bracket (18 yr old girl licensed for 6 months). She hospitalised me for two weeks causing pretty major physical carnage, so yeah ya boy got off real light which is great.
I reckon you can extract good from ANY situation. For me it has made me ultra paranoid about intersections, I always slow to well under the speed limit & eye ball the driver for any sign of an early departure & I would imagine Aaron will do the same which can only make you a safer rider
Heal well Aaron
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he was wearing a good leather jacket that has scuff marks all over but no rips and funnily enough grazes on bits of him that were protected by the jacket, jeans and boots and in all the running about i have done today between crash, hospital, home ,hospital,home then off to pick up the bike with a trailor all i see are people on bikes wearing tshirts and no gloves. hopefully this will be his only brush with the reaper. the cops and ambo guys were great but i was annoyed the cop that came to the hospital asked him 3 times how fast he was going as if he didnt believe that a young guy on a bike would be doing the correct thing. The old guy was 82 years old and the cops are going to reccomend that he hands in his licence and i dont know what charges he will face
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Bad buzz jim, but the good bit is, that your young fulla has had an extremely cheap lesson & he will never trust a tin top again, That could have just saved his life in the future.
Celestine Prophet
Sorry to hear that, hope he is ok and gets well soon. One consolation is that at least you know that your lad is riding correctly and safely.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
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Trackday Addict
Glad he's OK....
Scooter boy
Sweet!! Nice to know he's not been scared off the road by this. Key point my father told me when I first got a cage licence.. "Remember that every-one else out there is an idiot... act accordingly!" Double that for us poor sods on bikes...he is back home
It aint how fast ya get there, it's that ya get there at all...
needs to work harder
Yeeeee shit. We can all live without that kind of carry on. Lad's going to be OK though?
OMG. What a nightmare.
Dave
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Glad he's thinking ahead to the VCR. Shows he's not going to be discouraged from riding. Hope to see you both there.
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Hardcore Biker
Glad your sons' relatively unscathed, glad no fatality resulted! Hope the old fella hands in his license and gives up driving, you do worry about some folks on the roads!
Lusting after 2 wheels over 4 anyday
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