lil charlie
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Hello everybody,
My name is Kevin but I go by Lil Charlie and I live in Sierra Vista Arizona; it's a medium sized town about and hour and a half south of Tucson...near Tombstone and Bisbee. My father’s call sign was always Big Charlie so when I followed in his foot steps I got the name Lil Charlie. I have only been riding motorcycles since 2006 but instantly fell in love with the calming effect I get when I ride and plan on riding until the day I die. I started out on cursers but in Aug of 07 I was hit head on by a 93yr old man on a local Hwy. None of the doctors know how I lived. I spent 5 months flat on my back in a hospital with more rods and pins sticking out of me than knew what to do with, then 3 more months learning how to walk again. I have had a total of 21 reconstructive surgeries to put my ass back together. So what was the very 1st thing I did when I got out of the hospital....Buy another bike of course!! I couldn't even walk yet but I used a picture of the bike during physical therapy as my motivation. This bike was a Honda VXT 1800, but I crushed the back of my pelvis in my wreck and sitting straight up hurts my back so I could only ride it 20 mins at a time. I let a friend of my talk me into riding his CBR 1000, he told me leaning forward was comfortable and I though he was crazy. Well it turns out that leaning forward takes all of the weight off of my pelvis an I can ride for several hours in one sitting with no pain at all. SO I bought a used 04' kaw ZZR 600 as a test bike and after 3 months of pain free riding I sold both the VXT and ZZR and in the spring of 09 and bought a left over 08 Busa. I went to buy the white 09 model but the smoking price they gave on the 08 was too good of a deal to pass up. I love the orange and black look and plan on having this bike for many years. I knew nothing what so ever about Hayabussa when I bought it. I just knew that it fit my 6'-2'' broken ass body like a glove. Well that’s my story; hope to meet up with some of you for a ride.
Lil Charlie
My name is Kevin but I go by Lil Charlie and I live in Sierra Vista Arizona; it's a medium sized town about and hour and a half south of Tucson...near Tombstone and Bisbee. My father’s call sign was always Big Charlie so when I followed in his foot steps I got the name Lil Charlie. I have only been riding motorcycles since 2006 but instantly fell in love with the calming effect I get when I ride and plan on riding until the day I die. I started out on cursers but in Aug of 07 I was hit head on by a 93yr old man on a local Hwy. None of the doctors know how I lived. I spent 5 months flat on my back in a hospital with more rods and pins sticking out of me than knew what to do with, then 3 more months learning how to walk again. I have had a total of 21 reconstructive surgeries to put my ass back together. So what was the very 1st thing I did when I got out of the hospital....Buy another bike of course!! I couldn't even walk yet but I used a picture of the bike during physical therapy as my motivation. This bike was a Honda VXT 1800, but I crushed the back of my pelvis in my wreck and sitting straight up hurts my back so I could only ride it 20 mins at a time. I let a friend of my talk me into riding his CBR 1000, he told me leaning forward was comfortable and I though he was crazy. Well it turns out that leaning forward takes all of the weight off of my pelvis an I can ride for several hours in one sitting with no pain at all. SO I bought a used 04' kaw ZZR 600 as a test bike and after 3 months of pain free riding I sold both the VXT and ZZR and in the spring of 09 and bought a left over 08 Busa. I went to buy the white 09 model but the smoking price they gave on the 08 was too good of a deal to pass up. I love the orange and black look and plan on having this bike for many years. I knew nothing what so ever about Hayabussa when I bought it. I just knew that it fit my 6'-2'' broken ass body like a glove. Well that’s my story; hope to meet up with some of you for a ride.
Lil Charlie
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Incredible story and glad you were able to make it through the recovery.
