[MA70-3.0GT]

As you may (or likely may not) have noticed I've been away from the forum for a while. Just for the one poor sad person who may have an interest in why that was, allow me to set the scene.

19th May 2010, approx 18:10hrs. Set off on my bike home from parents house 8 miles away, lovely warm spring evening thinks I, I'll go for a quick shower then off for a ride round see who's out.

approx 18:20hrs. Prat in BMW 318i turns across road in front of me leaving about 0.5seconds to hit the brakes & scream "OH SH*T!!!" before becoming airborne as the bike buries itself into the rear quarter of said prat's beemer at 50mph.

approx 18:21hrs. I'm lying in the road looking around & working out that I've been knocked off my bike, I look down and my right leg appears a little shorter & fatter than it should be.

approx 18:22hrs. Guy jumps out of BMW 318i saying (wait for it!!!!) "oh I'm really sorry mate, I just didn't see you"... . Says I, "Well that's all well and good, now could you call an ambulance as my leg is hanging off?"

Well the rest is all as you'd expect, police turn up and take statements, people start trying to drive round me 'cause it's THAT important to get home for the telly, adrenaline wears off, I start getting arsey with police 'cause it now hurts, a lot.
Then finally about half an hour later the ambulance arrives from the hospital that's only about 4miles down the road, I get some gas & air, scooped up & taken to A&E.

The upshot of all that lovely experience is they managed to save my lower right leg eventually after some concern about the blood supply being cut off for over an hour (it took them ages to sedate me enough for my calf muscles to relax & let them pull the bones roughly into line!) and on the evening of the 21st May they got the drills & hammers out & put my leg back together with steel bars & big screws.

So now, after 3 weeks in hospital I was allowed out & am now staying on a bed in my parents front room. Today is the first time I've been able to get upstairs (VERRRRRRRY slowly! ) so I thought I'd firstly bore you all to death with my previous 2months 4days & lastly implore every one on this forum to PLEASE keep an eye out for bikes, cause it bloody hurts when we meet, to say nothing of the potential damage to a poor innocent Supra!

Be back in the Supra soon with any luck eh...