A friend of mine, from another forum. A long but worthy reading. A warning of sorts...

Jimmy's crash

wow. long story but worth the read, in my opinion.

thanks for the post Pablo.  i've been busy and had missed this one.

thanks for sharing!

oh man....i feel like selling my bike now.    

Quote from: kyzeeoh man....i feel like selling my bike now.    

I know how you feel. 5-6 times a year, on the forums I frequent something like this pops up. Usually it doesn't end as nice. It really makes you stop and think about it. Then I get up in the morning and see my helmet and change my mind.

wow.. that's just.. wow.

now i wonder if i have brain damage from my crash

(i was just attributing my recent drop in iq to my newly acquired blonde hair..)

Great post. Scary, but probably a good read for any rider or anyone considering becoming one. I too have had my share of head thumping accidents. I've lost conciousness, but never memory. I do a pre-ride mental inspection before starting out for work. If I haven't slept well, or don't feel sufficiently alert, I'll drive. If I've got the day off, really want to ride, but don't feel alert enough, I'll still pass on the ride. Just daydreaming while riding scares me. Motorcycling is a 100% activity. If you're not all there, don't do it. I quit once for 3 years after a wreck. If Jimmy doesn't have any type of siezure for a few years he may be back too. Ride safe.

Linky no workie for me.

Yeah, thats scary, my bro was the same way when he hit that poor little baby deer. He had no idea what was going on, even as we were there telling him, he was still clueless. He had no short term memory for the rest of the day. He "met" the same doctor and nurses up to 10 times. He didn't know what happened to his bike or why he was in the hospital. We had to keep telling him, "You wrecked your bike on a fawn", and he was surprised every time. It was weird. To this day, he still has no recalection of the accident.

 -Anti  

Quote from: The AntibodyWe had to keep telling him, "You wrecked your bike on a fawn", and he was surprised every time. It was weird. To this day, he still has no recalection of the accident.

 -Anti  

it's not funny, but it IS... "dude, you wrecked your bike on a fawn."  :lol:

Excellent story Pablo.  I'm saving that one to pass around.  And this guy can write too..!!!  A valuable lesson.

To my way of thinking, that is just another case of a newbie wanting too much bike too soon, screwing up, getting off relatively easily, and hanging up his helmet because he lost his nerve; or never really wanted to ride.

Just 12 hours before I was hit last summer breaking my collar bone and tearing my rotator cuff,  a good friend of mine was also hit from behind by another hit-run driver and was life flighted to a trauma hospital.  He had a concussion similar to Jimmy and you could see the results for awhile after.  We were both riding again in a couple of weeks because we are bikers and ride.

Too many people get into motorcycling now a days because of the image thing and to be part of the scene.  They must immediately have either a very fast flashy overpowered sport bike or a very large and very loud cruiser laden with chrome.  Bikes that just scream look at me, I am a biker!

Another newbie Jim over there has also hung up his helmet after two very minor incidents and remains in a host position on that forum to impart his vast experience to other newbies.  That has become a forum of top posters that haven't been around the block yet.  Gotta be careful who you listen to over there.

If your really a biker, you'll ride just because you want to ride and you'll ride anything with 2 wheels rather than drive anything with 4 wheels.  And you'll remember you can hit your head just as hard as Jimmy did falling in the shower in the safety of your own home.  It's always good for motorcycling when another "image rider" hangs it up.

Just the thoughts of a grouchy old man that rides because he loves to ride and doesn't need to impress anyone doing it.

Very good post GSJack. Even with many years of riding, I'm glad I didn't get the 1200 Bandit instead of my GS. I'd have been practicing wheelies on the street. My only method of restraint seems to be my machine's limits, so I ride bikes with less than insane horsepower. When I had my Husqvarna 390 dirt racer I had plenty of minor spills and one that put me on crutches for awhile. I still got back on and rode. I was young and healed quick. I don't know how many people told me I should boost my 883 Harley to a 1200. I told them the 883 had plenty of power for me(it wasn't stock :lol: ). We all have to know our personal limits and our machines. Thinking only about image may be OK with 4 wheels and a roof, but on a bike it can kill you too easy. I'm saving for my next 883. That's plenty of bike for me. Live long and ride.

I was unaware Jimmy was a new rider (on an sv1000 no less). I was under the impression that he had been riding for many years. maybe he got back into it after a long absence and isnt really a noob. I thought I read that in his story.

Apart from being a n00b (which I hadn't known from my first read), he was on some serious medication as well, gotta be extra careful there....


QUOTE:
"I've been taking a couple of meds, lately......

The combination of the three meds, even though I didn't take any of them on that particular day, probably mixed in my system and caused the seizure. I had taken all three all week prior to that Saturday, including on the Friday before."

Wow !

From his description of the "first" crash, it sounds like he had a brief out-of-body experience at the wrong time.  It was interesting to me that the focus of his experience seems to be on the dangers of motorcycling, rather than on the dangers of operating a motor vehicle.  I admit that, had he suffered his lapse in a car, he might have plowed off the road into a ditch (relatively) harmlessly, and the cage and seatbelt and airbags would have probably saved him the bump on the head.  But that's not really the point.  The possibilities of losing conciousness, while on a motorcycle, or behind the wheel, are equally terrifying (if for different reasons).

Reading his story, I was guessing that he was going to end with "...so I decided to give up carpentry, and now I take the subway or bus to work", but that's not where he was going.