[quote=Dean-Royal]
Still didn't stop me getting cleaned up by a drunk. I was a motorcycle riding instructor at the time too. Nearly two years in and out of hospital and rehab, missing finger, hip replacement and a permanent limp and nerve damage were the end result (plus the end of my career as an instructor).
Funny thing is that the b%&**&% didn't even bother to come and say "Sorry mate, I didn't see you" just stood in the middle of the road until the police carted him away. Other people, including my wife who was about 50 metres behind me, called the ambulance etc.
The young woman who went straight on at a bend, crossed the double whites and knocked me off stood above me as I lay in the road and said " I only lost concentration for a moment - what will happen to me now". Never asked me how I was and the last I saw of her before I passed out was a pair of white knickers and a nice bum.
I actually sold my bike when I realised that, as I was no longer riding it every day, it was taking so much extra concentration to ride correctly and defensively when I did take it out. I just realised that it would be too easy to make a serious error.
I always look at it the other way round. It takes concentration to ride a bike well. I can drive the family Volvo on autopilot and do so, thinking of almost anything else but what I'm doing. Sure the subconscious keeps me on the road and indeed I have never had an accident in any car. But whilst I will suffer more getting hit on a bike as I found out, I reckon I am less likely to have an accident of my own making on a bike.
