Starting life again

**Shaun** · 27th June 2008, 10:59

Monday the 30th life begins again for me.

I am going back to work for a engineering company as a mechanical fitter, my buisness has been dead for to long now, and I now want a different direction for my life, than running my own buisness.

I have been doing a very intense training programe for the last month, involves the GYM and lots of swimming, and by the end of August, I WILL be fitter than before I went to the TT last year, and fitter than I have ever been in NZ, I have never trained at all for racing in NZ over the years.

As some of you will know, I HAVE BEEN A BIT DIFFERENT over the last few months, why- HEAD INJURY! Badly damaged the right hand side of my brain, which effects, Maturity, decision making, memory etc etc etc etc, just looking at the head scans from the Isle of Man hospital last night, and the brain was very beaten up when I stopped!

I NOW HAVE OFFICUAL MEDICAL CLEARANCE TO RACE AGAIN!!!!!!!!! YEE HA

So YES, I am going to be racing bikes again, I will start testing again at the end of August (( Thankyou MOTO TT Crew)) I am going to race my Old K6 GSXR 600 UNLESS SOME ONE GIVES ME A 675 TRIUMPH???? ( Would love to race one here in NZ)

My Goal is, to get back to the Isle of Man TT races next year, and I WILL BE TRYING TO WIN races there again, I can and will try, simple!

Now where is my new BMW SBK?

I know what went wrong last year, and it WAS NOT my fauly, so I trust myself, and my loving wife FIONA, is behind me as she always has been ( Thankyou babe)

And thankyou again, to all that helped us, and hung in there with me through this shite period of life, BUT it has made me a better man than I was before, I am very proud of what I have done in the last few months with a lot of hard work and support from my wife, and I really believe in myself now BIG TIME

**firefighter** · 27th June 2008, 11:11

good on ya

**Nordy** · 27th June 2008, 11:13

awesome to hear! have fun with the racing

**MSTRS:Me** · 27th June 2008, 11:14

Good stuff Shaun. Older. Wiser. Few more scars.

**007XX** · 27th June 2008, 11:16

Brilliant news Shaun...May the gods of Speed be with you!

**Usarka** · 27th June 2008, 11:21

Nice work Shaun. Especially with the motivation following a blow to the head.

Hope you dont mind me asking - has the intense exercise helped with the head injury symptoms?

i look forward to more spectatoring

**Swoop** · 27th June 2008, 11:39

Nice to hear, Shaun.
All the very best for the future.

**Shaun** · 27th June 2008, 11:40

Originally Posted by Usarka

Nice work Shaun. Especially with the motivation following a blow to the head.

Hope you dont mind me asking - has the intense exercise helped with the head injury symptoms?

i look forward to more spectatoring

Thanks to all above

Re Head injury, I cannot say for sure about the training and the injury, but I do believe it has helped, as it gave me a Goal, and we all need goals to move forward, so PROBALL YES-

The head injury has had a bigger effect than expected really, and due to the fact that I could still use a key board and cell phone, I made a lot of Very BIG mistakes, some people dealt with them, some people spat the dummy and ran away and slagged me, well at least now I know who I can trust and know who the users and tossers are these days

**skelstar** · 27th June 2008, 11:50

Good to hear your success story. Good to have goals eh...

**justsomeguy** · 27th June 2008, 12:07

Legend.

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload...%20TT%2007.jpg

**portokiwi** · 27th June 2008, 12:11

Good on you mate.

**Shaun** · 27th June 2008, 12:11

Originally Posted by justsomeguy

Legend.

"Picture removed"

Lovely BABYB leather work there

Legend, nah man, just an old petrol head who likes to try hard. I am so focused on my racing come back, I have more enthusiasm for getting on a bike, than I have ever had, as well as Know I have learned a lot lately, so really looking forward to the flag dropping again, it is what I know really