So when I was young and dumb about 19, my older brother had just picked up his CB750F2 from the shop after having so work done and wanted me to take for a spin, I'm no its alright. He's like just go up the road and but don't go too hard, remember I said I was young & dumb, so I gave it a good fang up the road, all was going sweet until I was coming into town, at that stage I lived in Redesdale a typical country one horse town.
Anyway as I came around the second last bend on the Bendigo road they believe I clipped a pothole at about 110ish puncturing the rear tyre, the bike slid sideways off the road until it went into the drain, from there it decided to go straight again. There was a driveway directly in my path with a concrete or steel drain pipe running under it, which I hit at about 100km/h launching the bike into the air and somersaulting me and the bike down the road, it tore off the rear wheel, pulled the rear shocks into two.
As I cartwheeled down the road still on the bike, it bent the handle bars with my hands still hanging on dislocating my hand but not my thumb, as it broke the bone in there so the webbing between my thumb to the pointing finger stretched to where my little finger was supposed to be, that's where the rest of my hand started again. I also took an impact directly to my chest snapping my sternum down the center and bursting a crap of capillaries in chest, so I was drowning my own blood. I then became separated from the bike ragdolling down the road, now either between the bike tumble and the road tumble I broke my hip and pelvis in 3 places. Now the dumb part, I was not wearing proper gear, just a muscle shirt, helmet and jeans, so I lost all the skin on my forearms, elbows, hands, knuckles and my back; which the nurses cleaned nicely with sterile water and a toothbrush with no pain meds.
All up I spent 3 weeks in traction, 3 to 4 days in intensive care and the next couple months learning to walk and use my left hand properly. Specialist said I missed it by that much from not being here, he told me to wait as long as possible but it wasn't a question of if, but when I will need a hip replacement. Took 20 years but I had it done as I was missing work, not being able to ride, I was on a walking stick anytime we went anywhere as the arthritis destroyed the bone to the point where it would lock up, so I bit the bullet and had it done. I was out of bed the next day and back at work 4 weeks later, I have been able to race 6 hour endurance races even did a 12 hour, all single speed and mostly rigid plus a crap load of racing with the Geelong club. I have bike packed doing a couple overnighters doing about 200k's for the weekend, so it hasn't held me back much but like any injury I have my good days and bad days. If you are wondering, yeah I still ride motorbikes but these days I wear proper gear, Kevlar jeans, leather jacket etc., oh and I had to pay my brother for his bike as it wasn't insured and at that time I was unlicensed so it wouldn't of mattered.
Sorry for the ramble but yeah it hurt
