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[Talan Skeels-Piggins]

We finished The Bike Experience's first season with four paralysed riders coming to Castle Combe (Chippenham, UK) learn how to get back on a bike. We were fortunate to have Mike "Spike' Edwards come along as our guest instructor. He and his good lady wife have put together this video which shows exactly what we do on one of the charity days.



If you are interested in coming to learn next year, please join the facebook page (The Bike Experience) and get in touch.

It has been an amazing year, going from teaching one rider to four at a time. In total we have taught 26 paralysed motorcyclists how they can ride again. None of them thought it was possible at the start of 2011 and now some of them have bought their own bikes, ridden track days, but all of them have changed the way they see the rest of their life. The impossible has been achieved and so anything else is within their power.

Cheers
Talan

[Edinburgh Colin]

That looks to be absolutely liberating!
Sort of thing to leave you with sore cheeks from grinning so much.
May it go from strength to strength.
EC

[goose]

When will we see EC on youtube riding a bike again? Waiting..........

[Edinburgh Colin]

When will we see EC on youtube riding a bike again? Waiting..........

I think my wife may have a rather strong opinion on that one given what happened last time I rode a bike!

[goose]

When will we see EC on youtube riding a bike again? Waiting..........

I think my wife may have a rather strong opinion on that one given what happened last time I rode a bike!

Maybe she wouldn't mind if you bought extra life insurance.......LOL


I think I'd probably agree with her. She must have the brains in the family. Most women do!!!

[Edinburgh Colin]

When will we see EC on youtube riding a bike again? Waiting..........

I think my wife may have a rather strong opinion on that one given what happened last time I rode a bike!

Maybe she wouldn't mind if you bought extra life insurance.......LOL


I think I'd probably agree with her. She must have the brains in the family. Most women do!!!

She helped me buy the last bike after 7 years off them, a decision I made when the kids came along!
We both make good and bad decisions!
EC

[Tetracyclone]

She helped me buy the last bike after 7 years off them, a decision I made when the kids came along!
We both make good and bad decisions!
EC

It was a decision whose unanticipated consequences were a disaster. If I buy a house that later burns down, was it a bad decision? No, things went bad in an unforseeable way.

Decisions are rarely good or bad, but consequences? Yes, they can be judged. That said, risks can be foreseen and weighed, and yes, motorcycles have high risk.

A friend of mine stopped riding his bike on public roadways after my own accident, saying "My family needs me." 3 years later i think maybe his is wise.

[pjcstoke]

Great work guys - I had my injury on a bike and I'm so glad to be back on a bike again

Edited by Apparelyzed, 19 October 2011 - 01:18 PM.

[McTavish]

Fantastic where there's a will there's a way. Congratulations

Just realized this is quite an old post. Time for bed.

[Ava~]

I love that! ...very very cool!

Great work guys - I had my injury on a bike and I'm so glad to be back on a bike again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxMqC3gJ-9E

NIce!!