This Dude Can Ride

[1tinindian]

Unfortunately, on the last day, one of our instructors who just completed the course was hit on his way home. An unlicensed driver in a Chevy Suburban ran a red light and hit my buddy on his right side sending him into a coma for 30 days and a medical discharge from the Air Force. It's very sad. We all signed a photo of him going through the course. He won't be able to ride again. Sometimes your world can change in a second.

After reading this I just had to say, while I was enlisted in the USAF, I rode with a small group of fellow Airman, and one night, one of our group was on his way home on his bike, and while stopped at a stop sign waiting for cross traffic, he was hit from behind by a drunk driver in a car, pushing him through a 4 lane intersection, over a curb, through a hedgerow, and ended up in someones backyard.
He was a "single- digit- miget", as we used to say when someone was 9 or less days from seperation...he died from his injuries.
It was tough loosing him, but it really hurt when his brother came to pick up him personal items.
I have a hard time NOT thinking about things like this when riding, and I feel it has kept me more aware of things that can happen in a blink of an eye.

Sorry for getting off-topic, but I felt I needed to share this.

Leon

[Lotsokids]

Sorry for getting off-topic, but I felt I needed to share this.

Leon

Thanks for sharing that story, Leon. It's sobering. Maybe we should create a new "crash" section to tell stories, funny and not so funny.

[Pat Conlon]

Yea, the longer we hang around motorcycling, the more people we know, get hurt and sometimes die....It always hurts.

Anyhoo...back to Klavdy's post. That is one hell of a rider!   Although what does he weigh? A buck twenty soaking wet?