Oh, the agony! Oh, the misfortune! Oh, lamenting!

[spolic]

I don't know what picture is worse, the leg or the bike.   

[Qwack]

Hope you're a quick healer...I'm a slow healer and still sore from my run in with a deer back in May...Like others have said, you are here, and will heal (+1 for wearing full gear)....now  you can go on-line and look at which bike you might like to get next, as your bike doesn't look like she will make it, I'm sorry...

Keep us posted on the recovery.

[DarkDucati]

thanks for sharing your story and pics man.  being alive is good.  clearly you're one tough SOB as my uncle would say.  here's to a speedy recovery and future rides without cars gettin in  your way.  be well.

[r_ciao]

sorry 2 hear
heal fast

[swampduc]

Sorry about the injuries to both you and your bike ( poor 996)
Hard to see what you could have possibly done differently. Hope you heal fast.

[Alex]

I don't know what picture is worse, the leg or the bike.   

The bike for sure! Oh, it's terrible, almost like a decapitated body! My lord, I think I feel sick just looking at it. 

[Scottish]

I hope the insurance company doesn't total you or the bike. From the damage you pictured I'd at least buy the bike back and rebuild. 


Heal fast. 

[Duck-Stew]

Happy and healthy thoughts sent your way man. 

  --Stu

[Monstermonkey]

What's the sausage creature and why are you singing about it?

[zarn02]

What's the sausage creature and why are you singing about it?

http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html

[NorDog]

http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html

I've often wondered if Hunter meant that the bike was the Sausage Creature (an Italian variant of "Rice Burner", or if he meant that the Sausage Creature was that demon lurking out there ready to turn US into sausage.

I've concluded that the latter is that case.

[Raziel]

She wasn't turning, either. She just ambled out into the intersection like she thought the light had turned green.

That sounds familiar and all the more frightening. I had the very same thing happen to me many years ago... but I was on a moped and only doing 20 mph... I landed on the hood of the driver's car and was lucky to walk away unscathed. The woman driving told the police that she had no idea why she had pulled out, she just "spaced it." When I took the MSF course and they told us to watch the front wheel/hub of all vehicles approaching our path of travel, I wondered why this simple technique wasn't part of every driver's ed course. Works just as well in a cage, provided you can actually SEE their front wheel which of course is not always the case. But that powerful tip has saved me on a few occasions.

I have a buddy who rides a HD Sportster who just went down on gravel when an elderly driver did the same to him a few weeks ago. He was wearing a helmet but no leathers and is still sporting some major road rash.

Sorry to hear of your misfortune mate, wishing you a speedy recovery.