darciedog1
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I'm a little slow at posting this but my wife Just Katie dropped her bike two weeks ago at BlackHawk Farms doing her second track day. She was on her first lap of her second session when she went down. Two bikes in the expert class had just went down in the same corner before she went out. The first lap in the novice class is a caution lap and she said she was running no more than 30 mph when it happened. The track workers said she had to go through some fluid the missed. A total of 16 bikes went down that day, several in the same corner.
She broke her left thumb, fractured her right shoulder, tore her right rotator cuff. As well as bruising and nicking her liver, bruising and nicking her spleen, bruising her right lung and the only visible wound was her right elbow where her leathers ground through. She spent three days in a critical care unit before coming home. Had to take her back to the hospital Monday for a CT scan for internal swelling. She had surgery on the thumb last week to set it. They put 3 pins in it and will have surgery in a month on the shoulder. She will be off work about 3 months.
Katie had very good gear on and ruined every piece of it. Money well spent. I can't imagine how things would have turned out if she hadn't had the gear on. And for the bike. She just bought a brand new Triumph Street Triple the week before. Its totaled. She said shes not done riding and will be back on 2 wheels as soon as she can. She is one tough lady.
She broke her left thumb, fractured her right shoulder, tore her right rotator cuff. As well as bruising and nicking her liver, bruising and nicking her spleen, bruising her right lung and the only visible wound was her right elbow where her leathers ground through. She spent three days in a critical care unit before coming home. Had to take her back to the hospital Monday for a CT scan for internal swelling. She had surgery on the thumb last week to set it. They put 3 pins in it and will have surgery in a month on the shoulder. She will be off work about 3 months.
Katie had very good gear on and ruined every piece of it. Money well spent. I can't imagine how things would have turned out if she hadn't had the gear on. And for the bike. She just bought a brand new Triumph Street Triple the week before. Its totaled. She said shes not done riding and will be back on 2 wheels as soon as she can. She is one tough lady.
glad to hear that she's on the mend and will be riding again soon.
lease:
Hope she heals up quick!
