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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 361263" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Even a careful, good biker is at much greater risk because of other drivers. People don't notice bikes when they should.</p><p></p><p>The son of one of my best friends used to ride a motor bike. He always was an accident-prone kid and when he bought the bike she really worried about him. With cause - he slipped on a wet road one day. He was probably nudged by a car, he couldn't remember much about it. But he got out of it with only a broken leg, although it needed to be pinned and plated.</p><p></p><p>His mother held his 21st birthday party in a downstairs nightclub. I was too ill to go (pregnant with difficult child 3) but I heard all about it. This club had a long staircase going down, I believe there were about 20 or 21 steps. At each stair, his mother had pinned up - not photos, but X-rays, each one showing an injury he'd had to that time. She saved the motorbike accident films for the bottom steps. But she had the broken arm when he fell from the play equipment; she had the fractured skull from swinging on a rope over the river (and letting go at the wrong time, to slam back into a tree); the worry is, she had enough broken bones images to have a separate set for each step down into the club.</p><p></p><p>The good news is - he's still alive and seemingly in one piece. Inside there is still a fair bit of metal holding him together though. </p><p></p><p>When I last spoke to him, he was talking about buying himself another motor bike...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 361263, member: 1991"] Even a careful, good biker is at much greater risk because of other drivers. People don't notice bikes when they should. The son of one of my best friends used to ride a motor bike. He always was an accident-prone kid and when he bought the bike she really worried about him. With cause - he slipped on a wet road one day. He was probably nudged by a car, he couldn't remember much about it. But he got out of it with only a broken leg, although it needed to be pinned and plated. His mother held his 21st birthday party in a downstairs nightclub. I was too ill to go (pregnant with difficult child 3) but I heard all about it. This club had a long staircase going down, I believe there were about 20 or 21 steps. At each stair, his mother had pinned up - not photos, but X-rays, each one showing an injury he'd had to that time. She saved the motorbike accident films for the bottom steps. But she had the broken arm when he fell from the play equipment; she had the fractured skull from swinging on a rope over the river (and letting go at the wrong time, to slam back into a tree); the worry is, she had enough broken bones images to have a separate set for each step down into the club. The good news is - he's still alive and seemingly in one piece. Inside there is still a fair bit of metal holding him together though. When I last spoke to him, he was talking about buying himself another motor bike... Marg [/QUOTE]
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