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They always say that about motorcycle wrecks, that it's not if you wreck, but when you wreck. Mine came yesterday on highway 67 here in Colorado.Came into a corner a little too fast, hit a guard rail and then high sided. 2 broken tibula, 2 broken fibula, so yes broken legs. My hunting plans for the year are off, but that's life. By the look of my helmet, I'm glad I wore it or I wouldn't be typing this!
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Glad you survived. What kind of bike were you riding? ![[Linked Image]](http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s33/orangeokie/motorcycles/Repsolaprilia-1.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s33/orangeokie/motorcycles/impactpoint.jpg) That's where I ended up in the far side ditch ![[Linked Image]](http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s33/orangeokie/motorcycles/memorialmarker.jpg) Right beneath a memorial stone set up for a young lady who died at that same spot two years earlier. ![[Linked Image]](http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s33/orangeokie/motorcycles/13521735_4X.jpg)
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
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Tough break. I hope you heal up well.
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yipes!! Glad you were not hurt worse. Guess we will see more of you on the 'fire for a bit. 
Sam......
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
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Glad you are alive! Hopes for speedy recovery!
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Have their round haunches gored."
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Best wishes for quick recovery.
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Yetti, don't take much to put "down" a bike. That being said I could never stop riding. Hope a speedy and full recovery!
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Glad you survived Sir, when ya wreck on a bike your body takes ALL the punishment. BTDT more than once.
Here is praying you heal up and hair over fast without complications.
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Glad it wasn't worse Brent...
here's hoping for a speedy recovery, and glad you came out okay minus those leg issues...
I gave up riding motorcycles back in 2000, after having an accident, where I got hit by several deer that had been spooked in the brush by something... coyote was what I figured...
but my 6 year old son was worried in the after math, so I gave it up and sold the bike after it was repaired...
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 I rode bikes for 11 years and almost-not quite- had mine. Figured the law of probability was stacking up and quit before I got hurt� Hope you mend well!
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I, too, rode bikes for many years and had one extremely close call when a car pulled out in front of me. I finally gave them up but every once in a while I'll get the urge but it soon passes. I pray you heal well and wish you all the best. I love motor sickles.
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Glad you lived to tell the tale...
Wishes for a quick recovery.
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Damn, glad you survived the ride bud. I've had 2 bike accidents ,neither one was very severe. I gave up riding after the 2nd accident when my oldest was 2 (1992), I figured he deserved to have a dad growing up. I started riding again in 2007 had a close call with a little old lady got rid of the bike and got a quad, now if something happens it'll be my fault.
I do miss riding the open road but I enjoy the quad a whole lot more.
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Glad to hear that you survived. Those legs should be healed up in time to go out next year.
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Wow, bad deal, but glad for you it's not worse. I almost met mine when a dumptruck entered the road slowly on a blind corner and I squeaked between it and a motorhome on the dotted line, going about 50. Scares the beejeezus out of you when you suddenly realize it is not always under your control whether you wreck or not.
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Quit too after a couple of close ones. Then in my late 30's for a few years got to thinking of getting back into it. Thing was that every time I got serious about it would come up on a fatal on I25. Last one was the worst as it happened right beside me on the opposite direction. Quit thinking of riding after that and haven't seen a crash since. Coincidence? Yeah, but...
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I haven't hardly thrown a leg over one since my NY trip four (??) years back. No fear of injury really, just that after a whole decade of motorcycles as my only wheels its like been there, done that for me now.
Bicycles have my attention at present.
Only went down hard once, no helmet, literally walked away without a scratch. I do know that anytime I threw a leg over one that coulda been THE ride where it all came crashing down.
The son of a distinguished older gent in our muzzleloading club recently went down hard on his Goldwing; several broken ribs among other injuries. And that guy had been riding accident-free for at least thirty years.
I wish you a speedy recovery.
Birdwatcher
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I haven't hardly thrown a leg over one since my NY trip four (??) years back. No fear of injury really, just that after a whole decade of motorcycles as my only wheels its like been there, done that for me now.
Bicycles have my attention at present.
Only went down hard once, no helmet, literally walked away without a scratch. I do know that anytime I threw a leg over one that coulda been THE ride where it all came crashing down.
The son of a distinguished older gent in our muzzleloading club recently went down hard on his Goldwing; several broken ribs among other injuries. And that guy had been riding accident-free for at least thirty years.
I wish you a speedy recovery.
Birdwatcher
You mentioned bicycles, when they were doing the assessment, they kept asking about some roadrash on my right shoulder which is from brushing up against a boulder last week on a trail
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after visiting with AussieLad and seeing the x-rays while down there he helped me confirm im staying off bikes.....he has enough metal in his left knee to build a gun 
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