Nick Taylor
Husqvarna
AA Class
Thought I'd share this on here just for the fun of it.
I have just come out of hospital after spending a month there for a nasty injury to my foot. I was overtaking a caravan (trailer if your in the US) and a car appeared out of nowhere in the opposite direction. I was heading straight for him and had nowhere to go. I'm not entirely sure what happened after this but I remember the driver froze and made no attempt to move. I managed to kind of swerve out of the way but my lower leg and foot caught the front of the car sending it through the foot peg and brake pedal. I managed to stay on the bike and bring it to a stop. I thought I had lost my foot at that point as I couldn't see it and there was a lot of blood gushing everywhere. Turned out my foot was still attached but badly damaged. The surgeons were going to amputate it but they decided to get creative instead. All the veins and arteries in my foot had been destroyed from the impact and a few broken bones in there too. They amputated my big toe, used a ton of metal work to rebuild the rest of my foot and then after a CT scan they saw an artery feeding all the skin on the back of my leg. The then cut all the skin an flesh away from my leg leaving it attached at the artery and then wrapped it round my foot. Very clever and pioneering stuff. It has mostly worked with the help of some leeches to get the blood going but some bits died off and they have had to re-graft them. I have to go back for hopefully only one more operation then a long bit of physio to get going again. I can't go on enough about how amazing the all the surgeons and nurses have been in the hospital.
I made a stupid decision that day just before I got on the bike. I had on all my safety gear except I couldn't be bothered putting on my boots because I was just going 10 minutes along the road. Lesson learned.
One thing I did notice was that the Klim Badlands Pro trousers were shredded from the knee down (just the outer layer) and there was not a mark on my leg. I was convinced my leg had been shattered from the knee down but it was fine. I cannot recommend that suit enough!
I have just come out of hospital after spending a month there for a nasty injury to my foot. I was overtaking a caravan (trailer if your in the US) and a car appeared out of nowhere in the opposite direction. I was heading straight for him and had nowhere to go. I'm not entirely sure what happened after this but I remember the driver froze and made no attempt to move. I managed to kind of swerve out of the way but my lower leg and foot caught the front of the car sending it through the foot peg and brake pedal. I managed to stay on the bike and bring it to a stop. I thought I had lost my foot at that point as I couldn't see it and there was a lot of blood gushing everywhere. Turned out my foot was still attached but badly damaged. The surgeons were going to amputate it but they decided to get creative instead. All the veins and arteries in my foot had been destroyed from the impact and a few broken bones in there too. They amputated my big toe, used a ton of metal work to rebuild the rest of my foot and then after a CT scan they saw an artery feeding all the skin on the back of my leg. The then cut all the skin an flesh away from my leg leaving it attached at the artery and then wrapped it round my foot. Very clever and pioneering stuff. It has mostly worked with the help of some leeches to get the blood going but some bits died off and they have had to re-graft them. I have to go back for hopefully only one more operation then a long bit of physio to get going again. I can't go on enough about how amazing the all the surgeons and nurses have been in the hospital.
I made a stupid decision that day just before I got on the bike. I had on all my safety gear except I couldn't be bothered putting on my boots because I was just going 10 minutes along the road. Lesson learned.
One thing I did notice was that the Klim Badlands Pro trousers were shredded from the knee down (just the outer layer) and there was not a mark on my leg. I was convinced my leg had been shattered from the knee down but it was fine. I cannot recommend that suit enough!
And I'm pretty sure that chicks do, indeed, dig scars 
But I never ever leave home without gear on...even if I'm just riding the bike up and down the street to test out new jetting or whatever...always boots and helmet and knee protection at the very least.
