On a 2week motorcycle tour in Ireland on a poor quality b style road on a bend i hit gravel and front wheel went bike was near 400kg loaded up went out of control and bit of a tank slapper big boulders at other side of road so i decided in this milisecond to jump ...... as i did bike flipped violently nose down at an angle and went airborn smacked my leg hard and rolled a few times down the road wrecked big time!!! Mean while i landed like a pro kept head off ground not a scratch bar sore leg,... rolled myself off road so i didnt get run over and awaited someone to find me leg looked a lil wrong rolling broke it a few times 2 bones came threw skin descovered when paramedics cut my leathers off got it all back together with a metal rod in leg from knee to ankle more or less as one bone went at top and bottom. Bad news ive never broken anything before and assumed nice one 6 weeks off work bargin... 6 months maybe to put weight on it again then with no muscle have to slowly build it all up again tp walk and drive.......

My major issue is my car is only 4 months old and its in holland at my work where i normally stay but looks like i wont get back there for 6months no way to get anyone else to run it what ccan i expect on my return??? I am dead worried

Edited 9 July, 201114 yr by FUBAR

Your car will be fine I am sure but in the bigger picture it isn't really important mate. The important thing is for you to get fully and properly recovered. Sorry to hear about your accident and I wish you well.

Bit unsure what you mean my friend

you could ask a friend or pay someone to go and collect the car

then at least you would have the car at home.

bill

sorry to hear about your bad luck Fubar, hope you get better soon!

Sorry to hear about your accident. Hope the 6 months goes by quick so you can enjoy your car again.

sorry to hear about your bad luck Fubar, hope you get better soon!

At least I can get to see the rest of the road racing in NI this year and I have my new bike already waiting for me it was old bikes last ride (ZZR1400) awaits race exhaust and a power commander 220bhp BEAST! more then the VRS and all threw 1 big wheel ahhhhh its prob going to have to be sold ........ as tbh its only my right leg I dont really need it to ride a bike I recon today I could give it a good go but wont not looking forward to being stuck in a small room for weeks on end here so many steps at this place im trapped ...

Sorry to hear your misfortune, hope you fully recover and the time goes quick...

Sorry to hear about your accident, but as others have said, the main thing is your health!

As already mentioned, if you have a friend you trust, you could give them a ticket to go and collect it.

My brother- in-law has repatriated family cars a couple of times after little "mishaps"!

Is it somewhere secure? Indoors or outdoors? At the very least a flat battery, at worst....err...... :(

I'd try and get it back if at all possible, if its insured on a UK policy then most of those stop covering UK cars after they have been abroad for 30 days so it will be uninsured after this time.

I'd try and get it back if at all possible, if its insured on a UK policy then most of those stop covering UK cars after they have been abroad for 30 days so it will be uninsured after this time.

as its there all the time its reregistered on dutch plates and insured there too its outside in a secure work car park thats all

all that bird crap eating away at the paint would worry me!

Send me some flight tickets and i will go and pick it up for you

Hi Fubar where in NL?

I do the line Venlo-Eindhoven-Tilburg-Breda-Zundert every week.

If it is not too far and you want me to check your car (even if it is only visually)

I could make a small detour.

Hi FUBAR

Get well soon, sorry to hear about your tumble and busted leg.

We should start a club for Skoda owners with metal bits. My spine is nailed together too !

Hope your SKODA has DSG..........

Watch the pain killers, they will burn holes in your guts.

Fubar, as your car is insured for where it is and it's in a works car park where there'll be regular passers by I don't think you need be overly worried, you could even get one of your trustworthy works colleagues to start it every now and again and take it for a spin.

One more here for the metal mickey club, I've plates and pins in various places after I met with a lamppost after losing the front end of my GSXR on a corner, I broke both femurs (thigh bone) the left one in 3 places, left tibia (shin bone), left ulna (the big forearm bone), dislocated my right ankle and pushed my right tibia through my knee cap and suffered a few other minor breaks the only thing to worry about is getting well. Listen to and do what the physiotherapists tell you, I had no choice as my mum was one but it is without a doubt the most important thing you can do. The accident has left me disabled but I'm nowhere near as bad as I could have been.

Get well soon

Where abouts in NL is it? I go to Ridderkerk fairly often and don't mind making a detour to make sure it is all okay.

Send me some flight tickets and i will go and pick it up for you

Hi Fubar where in NL?

I do the line Venlo-Eindhoven-Tilburg-Breda-Zundert every week.

If it is not too far and you want me to check your car (even if it is only visually)

I could make a small detour.

Where abouts in NL is it? I go to Ridderkerk fairly often and don't mind making a detour to make sure it is all okay.

cheers for the offers guys but i parked it at work so they could see it was ok for me for the 2 weeks i had planned on being away and key hidden in work just need to pick someone to trust to turn it over once a week and take it round the block etc..... I hate doing that the car has only ever been driven by me I have a thing about others driving my cars you see but needs must I think

Speedy recovery, hope all goes Ok

Fubar, as your car is insured for where it is and it's in a works car park where there'll be regular passers by I don't think you need be overly worried, you could even get one of your trustworthy works colleagues to start it every now and again and take it for a spin.

One more here for the metal mickey club, I've plates and pins in various places after I met with a lamppost after losing the front end of my GSXR on a corner, I broke both femurs (thigh bone) the left one in 3 places, left tibia (shin bone), left ulna (the big forearm bone), dislocated my right ankle and pushed my right tibia through my knee cap and suffered a few other minor breaks the only thing to worry about is getting well. Listen to and do what the physiotherapists tell you, I had no choice as my mum was one but it is without a doubt the most important thing you can do. The accident has left me disabled but I'm nowhere near as bad as I could have been.

Get well soon

you've no idea how much your story makes me feel a lot better about my situation being in the first week of a LONG process still is daunting and down right depressing but I am always tryin to think "there are people a lot worse off" my uncle came off his bike racing on a circuit slid on tarmac all good hit grass bank went up in air about 8 feet landed on side broke an arm and leg 2 clean breaks ..... bike followed and hit bank and landed on its side on his other leg smashed it in 17 places had a cadge thing over his leg for a couple of years I think but all good now (he has an awesome pic trying to stand with 2 ppl helping him at door of ambulance smiling both thumbs up still runs a full SP1 now crazy man.

ps did you ever have problems with sleeping I can't do it for more than a couple of hours and every time i fall asleep I sweat myself dry its exhausting waking up drenched all the time im assuming its just meds doc tomorrow if i can get an emergency appointment or i have to wait near a week..........

Can't say I had any major problems sleeping but I was in a coma for a month at the beginning which might have helped.

The last thing I remember before lapsing into unconsciousness was the Ambulance man asking me where I lived, I told him but finished with "but I think you'd better take me to the Hospital"

Get well soon, from a fellow 2-wheeler

Get well soon man, where abouts were you when it happened?

Get well soon man, where abouts were you when it happened?

County Kerry somewhere miles from anywhere :(