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[Iceman]

Hey so I finally got out on my first ride on my handicapped accessible bike, and what an amazing experience. Ive never been so excited and nervous in my life, but it is the first time in a while I have felt like my old self, which made it worth every penny!








For those of you that didnt know me I was paralyzed on Memorial Day, May 26, 2008(and Im a veteran, lol) when a car merged into me from the fast lane to the middle lane.m,and sent me sliding headfirst on my back into the guardrail, which 'burst' two of my vertebrae and almost cut off my left arm. Ive got 2 rods and 12 screws in my back and a plate with 2 screws in my left arm. I was headed West on I-90, just past Everett Rd. I spent 8 months in the hospital, 3 months in a HALO and bought the motorcycle a year after I got out of the hospital and got before I got a new car. Besides putting 20,000 miles on my sportbike in 2.5 seasons, I put 7,600 on my V Star cruiser in one season including a 2,600 cross country trip in 3 days.

Wish me luck and let me know what you think!

Edited by Iceman, 13 June 2011 - 05:13 PM.

[Iceman]

NEW VIDEOS (4th ride ever)

[Ratticis]

Awesome

[Hapahowlee]

Very, very cool!

Have a safe, fun trip.

[Iceman]

Thank you guys. Its great but I do wish that I had more people in my life that cared. It was a dream I didnt let go of and now I have no one to enjoy it with, or to pat me on the back for not giving up. Hell I wish I had ONE person like that in my life.

[Bilal]

Its really really cool keep it up

[araitn]

Nice bike, love the Yamaha R6.

One question... where's your helmet? You need to find it and put it on your head or you could join the TBI club along with the SCI club. Yes, even if you're just riding in a parking lot, especially since you're learning a new way to ride.

I hope you have a great time with your new ride. It looks like you're off to a good start.

[Irish Wheelz]

Very cool man, keep up the good work.

[Iceman]

 araitn, on 22 June 2011 - 01:09 PM, said:

Nice bike, love the Yamaha R6.

One question... where's your helmet? You need to find it and put it on your head or you could join the TBI club along with the SCI club. Yes, even if you're just riding in a parking lot, especially since you're learning a new way to ride.

I hope you have a great time with your new ride. It looks like you're off to a good start.

Thanks alot man! I tried to ride with it, but I was a lot less confident without being able to see very well. I have recently ridden with it and am now wearing it when I ride, but I have to be comfortable to be confident while Im learning. Ive been riding since I was really young and put over 20,000 miles in 2 1/2 seasons on my sportbike, and over 7,500 on my cruiser including a 2,600 mile cross country trip in 3 days before I got merged into on the highway, so hopefully I dont have to worry about another TBI. I actually technically was diagnosed with a TBI because I had bleeding in my skull/brain for 3 days in 2 places immediately following the accident that put me in the chair.

Thank you flr the encouragement however. Please do me the favor of posting my videos on other forums, I would really like people to see my kit and to inspire other riders to begun riding again!

PS- I added a pic of me and Bruiser, my service dog whom I trained myself. Believe it or not he will actually ride around standing on the tank as long as I keep the landing gear down, I have to get a video of it the next time I go out on it though!

[Roooost]

Good stuff!!!! Nothing like getting back on a 2 wheeler.

Dito on the helmet but man, even if your side riggers fail through no fault of your own, i found when i first got back on the bike tipping over even from slow caused my head to slap sideways into the ground quite hard at times, ive gotten used to holding it up now but if i wasn't wearing a helmet i can imagine i would have done quite some damage.

Enjoy

[Racerx159]

Thats awesome man, I'm working on getting the same setup. Finding a bike in the middle of the riding season is a pain though. Gratz on the ride and post more videos!

[dianna318]

I LOVE IT!!! I didn't no they had such things for bikes! I want want want one, but can't afford it right now.

Glad you are now wearing your helmet! Do they make brain buckets for your pooch? Keep up the good work and please try and get some vids out on the road!



Good Biking, Dianna

[airart1]

iceman, this is great i got my harley i ride from my chair, but the front end is cut and under me, not like a sidecar, but one question, my buddy built his own like your got on his kz1100, what do yu do if you have to stop on a road or intersection with a bank to it, he hasnt figured it out yet and has spilled a few times going to road atlanta from here, about 4 hour ride, this is a legit question, not trying to pull no bull, he's currently trying to go hydraulic on his goldwing and letting them float with more power and control of where they land, have you had any problem having to stop not on flat ground?