Originally Posted by
harlie
We used to operate on one car (Discovery at the time) and a bike (CBR1000f at the time). The bike was my commuter to/from work rain, hail or shine. All was well with this system for several years until in Nov 2000 when a speeding, company owned commodore ran a red light in the city (Brisbane), he was late for a meeting. The bike was split in 2, the commodore was completely disintegrated in front of the wind screen, which I went through. Put me in hospital with a shattered pelvis, several broken ribs with internal bleeding and a broken leg. It was many operations later, 1 year off work and about 7 years of physo and rehab before I was considered recovered, I still get lower back pain at times from a slightly crocked pelvis, they say it never heals straight after being shattered like that. The back half of the bike was thrown on to the footpath where it struck a pedestrian causing series injury.
After nearly loosing the house, putting my young wife through hell, and experiencing several months of needing someone to help me go to the toilet and bath, I’ll never ride a bike on the road again – I consider myself lucky, most bike riders, motor or cycle don’t survive these ones, I won't forget the reaction of the paramedics, who were there within minutes, they were amazed I still had a leg - put it down to that framing infront of my leg that the CBR had, if I was on a small bike the leg would have been severed for sure. I was conscious and remember everything, and at the time wished I wasn't. Office workers who raced out to help were amazing.
Now we have a TDI Golf as the daily, my L322 (lots of airbags in both) and a train station at the end of the street. It takes longer than the bike did, but I get home in one piece. Usually the mrs drives to work early, I walk about 1km with the kids to school which happens to be right near the next station down the line. Spend some time with the kids, get some exercise then catch the train. I now go kite surfing for kicks.
