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[Coolbreeze]

Wasn't there a quote just a little while ago about JC getting old?? [smiley=huepfenlol2.gif]

I do think I remember something about it....but it was over an hour ago, so I'm not REAL sure!

And how is Happy Jack doing at this point? [smiley=nixweiss.gif]

[05Rider]

I have read some of the posts on this site that related to crashes that people have had in the past.

[SE_ULTRA]

In a few words, my sad story;
So here I am, one of the good guys, shinny badge, nice uniform on my copper kawi....the next thing I know a big brown UPS truck is trying to kill me. Skip to the chase...can't cop anymore. Broke my sacrum, pelvis (2 places), hip, mid-shaft femur compound break, knee, ankle, lots of skin on the street and very little on me. 1 month in the hospital, close to a year in a hospital bed in my home. Had a personal bike in the driveway that got sold for me before I even left the hospital.

Now the good news;
I walk, and I ride! It took some time for me to get back up and ride...4 years, but I did. I figured I would just get a little bike for around town because I missed riding so much. Got a Sporty. 2 years later I got an EG and it is hard to keep me off of it!

...and the BEST news;
the SE Ultra is due to ship Nov. 18

[txfatboy]

I went down july 15, 2005.  Famous left turn in front of me scenerio.  I totalled the bike, broken hands, dislocated sholder, seperated pelvis...still on pain meds.  I debated about getting another bike, but ordered one within a few weeks of the accident.  Just rode this past weekend at a local rally on a loaned bike from dealer.  Needless to say it was very scary riding again.  I returned the bike today...mine is due here next month...but still thinking hard about whether to ride again.  I have 4 kids, ages 5, 7, 10, 12 ... and not sure if MY enjoyment is worth their dissapointment if something worse were to happen.

[Twolanerider]

Please understand that the methodology I'm suggesting here is in no way "real."  It's just comforting.  And finding your comfort level is what this topic is really all about anyway.  It also may help if you're not very smart.  So it helps me a lot.  But here is my reasoning.  It's the "Garp Theory" on riding after an accident.

Anyone remember the Robin Williams movie "Garp"?  In it as a younger man he and his wife are looking at a house to buy.  He can't make up his mind.  Just not sure.  As they're standing in the front yard looking and considering a small aircraft crashes in to the house.  Garp immediately brightens up and says "Well take it!"

His wife and the realtor both look at him a bit perplexed.  He smiles big and explains it's been "pre-disastered."  So the house was clear of fate, future bad luck and was safe from there on.  Well, on a bike I'm pre-disastered.  So I gotta be good to go from then on.

[jimp]

[JimsSEEG]

That's gonna hurt!!! I thought everybody knew to sneak a peek AFTER the turn - reminds me of a high side at TWS on a TZ250 about 25 years ago....

Lots of folks opinions with encouragement. My worst get off was on the track: about 110, left hand, down hill, off camber sweeper. Had rained the night before and dirt haad been washed on the corner. Corner workers swept it off, but you can never get it all. Cam in a little hot, too much front brake and the front end pushes out and your nose down on the pavement... My first thought was
"hope no one saw that!" - they did... My second thought was "I hope nothing on me is broken (it was - thumb, index finger and forearm) and no one runs over my butt laying here on the pavement (luckily they didn't)..." Had a few minor scrapes on the street, but nothing like that.

Main thing is to get back on the horse, take a ride, a deep breath and then decide. In the meantime, get your broken wing patch....

I ride because I love it - can't imagine not riding.....

My .02

Jim

[Road_Glider]

Jim nice photo shop job.

[Twolanerider]

Who wears riding leathers like that on a Road King?  And where'd the left footboard go?  It's in the second pic?

[Twolanerider]

Jim nice photo shop job.

[jimp]

Same bike

[JCZ]

That guy can tell that story any way he wants too........................but those photos speak volumnes!  .............and now he'll take a riding course. [smiley=nixweiss.gif]

[110tHunDer]

Jimp, love both sets of those photos!  Especially the first one of the real sequence.  I hope the guy is OK, but look at him being all cool and stuff, waving at the cameraman like, "Hey, look what I'm about to do!"

[jimp]

Here's a site with tons of pics from the Gap.

http://www.killboy.com/

[Road_Glider]

Here's a site with tons of pics from the Gap.

http://www.killboy.com/

Cool photo site, thanks for sharing that.