[ckelly78z]

I have had road bikes in the past, and didn't like the amount of traffic 25 years ago. Now, I strictly stick to farm lanes, fields, and treelines around my farm on my KLR 250.

I have seen some pretty bad accidents that made me re-think being an "organ donor".

About 5 years ago I was taking my son to football practice, drove over the hill near my house, and came upon a guy just attempting to get up out of the ditch. He had hit a spot of bad pavement at about 100 mph, and proceeded to get the "hospital" speed wobbles (left a nice squiggly tire mark on the road for about 100 feet). He then went over the handle bars, and cracked his helmet in half when he hit the road. His t-shirt was pulled over his head, he was missing both shoes, and 1 sock, and had road rash on almost every visible surface. He did'nt want to call the cops, because it wasn't his bike, no insurance, no license, already had a bad driving record. He also didn't want to go to the hospital, but by the time his friends arrived to get his bike, he was going into shock, and shaking badly.

Another time I came upon an accident that just happened in Columbus Ohio, at a busy 6 lane intersection, where two Harleys were on the ground, and some old lady was just getting out of her crumpled Buick. It looked like both bikes had male/female couples, and one woman was sitting in the middle of the intersection holding her husband's head (no helmet) in her lap in an ever expanding pool of blood. I think that one shocked me into not riding for awhile.