Spooky took a ride...

[Toyark]

Some of you may know Hanno and his KTM or may have been to his KTM maintenance workshop he ran at some Hubb meetings.
Alas, last Easter Sunday, he and his motorcycle parted ways and he crashed injuring himself badly it seems. He has had an operation and now has titanium rods holding some damaged body parts together.

Sending you best wishes for a speedy recovery Spooky.

[Toyark]

I have just received a mail from Hanno who wants me to post it . Here it is:

How it happened.. well in an instant, what else.*
Easter Sunday on the way back home visiting my daughter *
Had this three slow creating cars in front of me for some time alone a windy country lane, after the last bent a long straight stretch opened up no other traffic in sight, so I pulled throttle and changed lane to take a three cars, half way the 1st car suddenly turned across to get in to a car park sort of lay bay and did so slowly, to slow to clear the way for me. I did hid both brakes to slow down but the way was to short, so I dropped the bike to the side, slicing toward the rear wheel of that car, no way for me to get out of it by going left nor right, the car rear wheel was in the middle of my line which I then hit with the underside or swing arm. The sudden shock went straight through my spinal. Just rolled on my back. Apart from a small pain in the left food gasping for air and the bad pain in the spinal I suffered no other damaged.*

Their brought me in to a nearby hospital for full CT, needed 4 days to get the titanium bolts and rods to be able for final OP and stability of my squash spinal element.
Now 3days after the OP they still give me a hand time, feeling bad informed an treated..
*I'm on heavy morphine, didn't been able to sleep but that is a different story regarding the Germans health system.*

This year I'm unable to make it to anyone HUBB but maybe next.

Bertrand feel free to use some of my description for the HU post.. as a warning for every one on the road*

[Senno]

Get well soon mate. Sorry to hear of your woes. Just goes to show how quickly things can happen and how alert we need to be.

[motoreiter]

Don't know spooky but sorry to hear about this, hope he's better soon.

Also I appreciate that he posted the details; it is also good to hear what when wrong for an experienced rider, so that other riders can put that kind of issue into their mental data base of situations to watch for.