First bin

[bomma]

good to hear you're relatively ok mate.......gutted for ya....take your time in recovering, dont get pushed into riding before you feel upto it coz that might put you off even more.....just dont give up riding tho, id hate to think that an asshole cage-driver won over a biker

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

Glad to hear your on the mend. Its always a shock having an off and your mind works overtime reliving the incident. On the plus side you will have learnt alot by this experience, observing the driver of the car instead of just the car- Is he looking at me? Can he see me? etc. A least your bikes ok and in a short while you will be up for a ride again having gained a little more experience in the art of motorcycling. Take it easy out there, remember the bastards are out to get us and those that aren't can't bloody see us anyway!

[RnB Fan]

I know exactly what you're saying. I had a low speed (40kmh) high side about two months ago and although I walked away with a few bruises and scrapes my bike was pretty well munted all down one side. It has made me think about continuing riding. My bike is still being fixed at the moment and I willl admit to being apprehensive about that first ride when I do get it back. I haven't ridden for just over 2 months and I can tell you the first ride when I do get the bike back will be a slow tour around the local suburb - nice and gentle.
Hope you recover soon and get back on your buke in your own time.

[Ixion]

Yeah. They do that, pull out in front of you. Often. Just part of life's rich tapestry.

As to continuing or not, that's up to you. It's not for everyone.

One thing you can do though, is to make up your mind that your FIRST crash will be your LAST crash. And do whatever it takes to ensure that.

Crashing's not inevitable. But it's down to you, and you alone, to make sure it doesn't happen. The other guy doesn't give a fuck if you live or die.

[Bend-it]

Similar thing happened to me. Van did a U-turn in front of me, I hit the brakes and went down. Sometimes I think I should have braked gentler and gone into the side of the van (at a slow-ish speed), then he would have to face up!

On the other hand, I've been on an advanced riding course since then and am now confident that if the same thing happened, I would be able to brake in time without dropping the bike.

So there, it's a complex combination of events, and you can't completely eliminate risk, but you can make it more manageable with training and defensive riding.

Wish you a quick recovery mate!

[sincity]

Recently a friend of mine in Dunedin who I haven't seen in ages was involved in a car vs bike. The car pulled out and didn't stop for him, he slammed the brakes on, threw the bike on its left hand side and rode it into the side of the car. Somehow he had flipped and they think he hit the rear wheel causing it to do so. He ended up in hospital with a punctured kidney. The driver has been charged from my understanding. My friend can no longer work for 6 months and was a big rugby and softball player. So at the end of the day, you were very lucky, and so was my friend as he's not dead.