Track Highside

If you have been following the Facebook Page, you would know that I highsided at the track just before Christmas last year. The crash left me with a broken right radial head which needed 2 screws to hold the broken pieces together. The radial head is a complicated bone because it not only allows you to bend and extend your elbow, it also facilitates the rotation of your forearm. I had the surgery 2 days after the crash, and I just took the cast off last week. Needless to say, I have a long way to recovery.

So how did I crash? I can only blame it on a bad decision. I was about to enter turn one at Johor Circuit when the bike caught a false neutral. Instead of rolling to the gravel, I decided to take a wider line into the turn. HUGE mistake. The bike engaged into second gear mid-turn, throwing me over the handlebars. The proper thing to do was to either upshift or clutch in and coast to the gravel.

I've been on medical leave ever since the crash, and I am typing all these using only my left hand. I still can't rotate my injured arm far enough to hold a mouse or type on the keyboard. In my spare time, I made this video, entirely using my left arm. FYI, my left arm is my non-dominant arm.

Learn from my mistake. I don't know how long it will take before I can ride again, but I'll be back!

Ride safe.