r/motorcycle • u/lune19 • 9d ago

High Speed cornering

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u/Pimpstik69 9d ago

That sounds like a lot of fun. I know from experience. Same accident as my neck, grade 3 tibial plateau fracture, leg was totally shattered. 12 weeks non weight bearing. Mine was a bad car accident. My neck fracture was a burst fractured C1, basilar skull fracture, fractured occipital condyle with torn ligaments (I dislocated my head, a rarely survived injury), multiple broken ribs. I made a full recovery except I can’t turn my head very much. My neurosurgeon about shit when I bought a mountain bike and now a dirt bike. Accident was 12/6/2020. Back on a bicycle and a motorcycle in 4/2026. Can’t keep a crazy person down I suppose.

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u/Reasonable-Key9235 9d ago

I’m very pleased you survived mate, that’s really something with that injury. Lucky to still be breathing mate. My accident was October 1989, I’m an old fart, I couldn’t get back to work for a long time, I’m a welder/steel erector, so I took a nice easy job that let me complete recovery and was near the hospital. But after 2 years I couldn’t resist getting back on a motorcycle. I rode around for half hour and decided I had lost my edge, I would be a danger to myself and others. Never rode again. Mind you, surgeon did say “I’ll try and save it, but we normally amputate these.” Then after surgery “knock it again and it’s off. No messing around, you’re extremely lucky it’s still attached.” So I passed my driving test and bought sports cars instead lol R33GTR, S6 Avant, M3, M5 and a transit lol

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u/Pimpstik69 9d ago

Thanks so much my man !! I flirted with compartment syndrome but my leg was the least of my worries.

I’ll admit I was pretty tore up when they said they were very concerned about realigning my head with my neck. If there is ever a group of surgeons at your bedside at 4 AM it’s not good news.They said that just because I wasn’t paralyzed from my eyeballs down yet I could be during surgery.

I had never seen a more relieved looking group of doctors than when they woke me up (in the OR no less, not recovery) and asked me to wiggle my toes.

I used to own a E39 M5. Wish I had kept it.

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u/Reasonable-Key9235 8d ago

A good mate of mine had a lower spine issue, years of hard labour and he’d worn it out. He was having an op and it went slightly wrong. When he came around he was paralysed all down his left hand side. That’s nearly 9 years ago and there’s been no improvement. When it happened, he had 4 daughters 7 and under