Everyday Randomness

Never again let me talk about how happy I am that hubby took the bike out for awhile and left me with some nice quiet time to work. Within minutes of posting my last post hubby called me to say he layed the bike down. They got caught on the mountain in a rain storm, and the bottom dropped out on them. Hubby hydroplaned and lost control of the bike. The bike luckily slid one direction and hubby slid down the road on his back, but what stopped him was his feet hitting the guard rail. His shoes came off when he smacked the guard rail breaking his left foot and bruising up his right one pretty bad. Luckily he had his gear on, so nothing else was injured. His helmet smacked the ground once, but there’s no damage, and his riding jacket doesn’t have a scratch on it. We can thank the jacket for saving his back. He doesn’t have a speck of road rash. I’ll spare you the bloody photos before he got all bandaged up.

As for the bike, it’s pretty damaged but mostly it’s all cosmetic. We need pretty much new plastics for the entire left side and front. The front foot peg was ripped off as well as the shift lever. We’ll be replacing lights, covers, and stuff like that, but nothing too bad.

All that matters is that hubby is okay. He’ll be off his feet for a couple weeks, but we’ll make it work. I’ll try to do some extra work and maybe a few extra paid blogging posts if you guys can understand that. For now hubby’s going to camp out on the futon until the morphine wears off enough for him to be able to get on the crutches.

Tags: Family, Motorcycles

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