Originally Posted by Berlin

Amazingly, not many! But I know I've been very lucky.

I hit a tractor at about 90mph in 1988 when he turned across me into a field as I overtook him (without indicating) then drove over my leg with his trailer. I walked away with a bruised foot and a slight dent on my bicep. I have a slight red blotch on my right foot when it gets cold.

I jumped a car on a humped back bridge in 1987 at 55mph. I remember looking right and seeing the top pf a telegraph pole as I flew past it. I actually landed the bike on its wheels 30 yards up the road and walked away after sliding another 30. I have a very slight scar on my left shoulder the size of a penny where my leathers wore through. The car driver came and saw if I was OK and I asked if I'd hit his car. he said I'd cleared him by a good two yards.
I rode the bike home on very flat rims.

I've been through the hedge so many times I've lost count and even walked away from a 140mph crash at knockhill on (someone else's!) GSXR1100

I came off outside the Police headquarters in Ponteland, in Northumberland, at about 90 on a wet patch in jeans and a leather jacket and walked away with a scuff on my thigh.

As I say, I've been very lucky

But Snowboarding, that's another story! I've got more permanent injuries from that than racing bikes, mountain bikes and all the other dangerous stuff put together.

C