My first accident

In 1998 I bought my first bike. I was at the Camberwell market and bought a second hand Shogun Katana. I fell in love with it and rode almost 700 km’s on her. Sadly when I was riding to work on Springvale Road (Glen Waverley), and was approaching the intersection at Kingsway and did the usual head check to see if anyone was indicating behind me. No one was so I went to ride through the intersection. Just as I hit the corner a Ute turned left without indicating. I was about to slam into the side of his car, and veered sharp to the left, and was going to crash. I let go of my handlebars, & grabbed onto the side of the Ute, and was dragged along parallel with the Ute for about 25 metres before I let go of the Ute & went sideways into the nature strip and landed on the grass. My bike was ok, and I only had tiny scratches on me. The guy never stopped. Two young girls in a P plater car pulled over and ran out to see if I was ok, and I wondered if it looked pretty bad. I said that I was ok, and continued my ride to work.

I said to myself that it was a once off, and that I shouldn’t worry about it and get back on the bike. My next trip I punctured and had to walk the bike 6km’s. Sadly I gave up cycling, and didn’t take it up for another 12 years…….