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08-18-2005, 12:55 PM
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| Kickstand Operator   Join Date: May 2005
Bike: '03 Marauder & '95 Katana
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Posts: 266
|  Spent the Week Crying...
This week I went up to Flint to a MC club with a few members of my club and a few others from another club... I decided to ride my Kat cause the other riders were on sportbikes, and I didn't wanna look out of place... Anyway, on the way back, we were on the expressway, and it was pretty empty, so the pack (8-10 riders) spread out a bit... Well, the guy in front of me and one lane over blows his rear tire and goes down at 75mph... His bike goes end over end and he sildes into a guardrail... Meanwhile, I'm locking up my brakes to avoid hitting what was left of him, and I get nailed with part of his fairing and then I went down, too... He and I were both in full gear, but he hit the guardrail and all I wound up with a skinned and sprained knee... Now, I've been down before, but to watch someone die right in front of me is just... I can't sleep, cause I can't stop seeing it over and over again... The paramedics said that he was dead on impact... I'll be on crutches for about a month, but his family will be laying flowers on his casket... Oh my God... I'm crying even as I type this... The guys were worried about me cause I was the only girl in the pack... I remember getting up and waiting for him to do the same... Then I remember seeing his limp body draped over the guardrail... Next thing I know, the doctor is trying to get me to swallow 2 Valium and telling me how lucky I was... I feel like hanging up my helmets and selling my bikes and never riding again, but how can I show love to a fallen brother and my father if I don't ride? I'm fine, and since I was on my brakes, my Kat is fine, so why can't I stop crying?? I took a leave of absence from work for 6 weeks, and am considering talking to someone about my mental state... I know that it sounds corny, and that falling is the nature of the beast for us, but I got so much going on inside me now, and I don't know how to handle it... I've read about people getting killed, but never SAW it... To be honest, I'm all f*cked up now... |
