Near misses and crashes - What's you're story?

[Bartman]

I had a crash on 20 November last year in Perth, in a 100kmh zone left lane doing 60-70kmh in heavy traffic was looking in mirror and then over right shoulder to go into the right lane when car in front stopped! I grabbed a big handful of brake and did a skidding stoppie and went down heavy on left side of head and shoulder. broke 3 x ribs in back under my shoulderblade and dislocated right shoulder from the tumble down the road also took off a bit of bark on my right hand. Luckily no one ran over me. I also had all my gear on except gloves??? Was in hospital 6 days and bike was written off due to too much custom stuff, pipes paint rearsets etc, the payout was prompt but would never have replaced the bike with the custom stuff. I will be buying new later this year. My first ride on the road since was on this past Sunday on an SL230 honda from Coolgardie to Kalgoorlie 40ks to go for a ride out bush with family and friends, accidents really f-ck up your confidence, I still have a 900ss Ducati at home and am waiting for a nice cool day to go for a ride (air cooled donks dont like our stinkin hot days) This was the second time I have crashed on a road bike the last time I was 18 years old on a Honda CB360 and was pissed as a parrot and now this one and Iam 48, 49 in March so 30plus years between is not too bad its just you dont bounce back when you are older and I dread to think what would have happened if the missus was on the back as she frequently is! certainly makes you think about things (family, friends, grandkids, kids, priorities, responsibilities, people who love and rely on you!) We will have a new bike for the Hayabusa aniversary run in WA in November and it will have ABS, it saves lives. Bartman and Gloria