Josh is down

[AzBob_imp]

Hope your gradually feeling better, Josh. This may be a case for ABS, I don't know. I tend to always count one thousand one thousand two one thousand three at least on a bike. It's tough with a car in front and behind sometimes. New England tends to be fairly quiet in the countryside so I can pull over if I have to. Florida on the East Coast has been terrifying to ride at rush hour and my brother and others stopped riding for that reason til he moves to Northeast Georgia where I had a peach of a quiet ride on his Duc Multistrada. These people who pull out in front of us (and those in front of us) make it tough.

Silly as it sounds- ABS may have saved my ass, I don't know. Don't remember much.

That being said it is 4 weeks today since I crashed and I am still in a lot of pain although a little better every day.

I loved riding a motorcycle- have done it since I was a small child and I am in my mid 40's. I guess I was lucky to never have injured myself before.

This was my first (and only) wreck on the street. I used to fly off dirtbikes and quads all the time with jeans and a t-shirt when I was 12-14-16, etc and amazingly just got up and kept riding.

This is different. It is not worth this constant pain and sacrifice both to me and my wife and family, much less my job and finances.

And before you guys say suck it up- I was a medic in the Army. I am well aware of suck it up, keep moving. This is different.

What keeps sticking in my mind is that I wore the best gear I could- top dollar leather jacket & pants with chest pads, spine pad, shoulder pads, elbow pads, hip, knee and shin pads, etc etc- and I must have went down relatively slow as there isn't much damage to the bike- and I still hurt myself quite a bit.

Pretty much everybody wears less than what I did, and I'd imagine a lot of crashes involve higher speeds or impacts with something- car, deer, tree, guard rail...

If it hurts this much with what I did, how much worse could it easily have been? Uggh.

Sorry about your crash.

With you not being able to remember what happened (understandable), it's hard to speculate, but it sounds an awful lot like you hit whatever it was with your body and came to a sudden stop. Or it hit you. Or you were run over at some point.

Be well. One day at a time. If you want to hang it up, don't let anyone tell you you shouldn't. Do what you feel is right for yourself and your family.