[Spridgets] Fw: Speaking of Harley Davidsons

[BJNoSHOV8]

Sure is, and there's lots of stuff worse than the ground!  I crashed 6 
weeks ago on my bike and I'm messed up plenty.  I'm talking bicycle 
here.  I was out training on a Saturday morning on my road bike like I 
usually am on Saturday mornings, and ran into the back of a car that 
stopped in front of me in the middle of a 6-lane road.  We heard later 
from witnesses their version of what happend but I have absolutely no 
memory of it.  I was riding my bike and then I wake up laying on the 
ground with the EMS guys cutting my clothes off.  I didn't know what 
happened but I knew something bad had happened.  I had to ask them what 
happened.

I was wearing a helmet and glasses, my face went through the rear 
windshield of the car.  The impact had some affect on a disk in my neck, 
and somehow messed up some muscles in my back.  The rear windshield 
tried to slice my face off.  A couple of hours with needles and thread 
and my face is back in one piece but it might be a year before I can get 
most of the scars removed.  I spent 24 hours in the ICU and a couple of 
more days in a normal room before they let me go home.  I think they 
were surprised that I didn't have brain damage or internal organ 
damage.  I had MRI's, CAT scans and Xrays.

Oh and the bike is toast too.  I don't have any interest in riding 
anymore this summer, maybe next summer I'll feel differently about it.


>  Just a lesson, it doesn't matter the size of the bike, the ground is just as 
> hard and unforgiving to everybody.