A tentative return planned.

So..in Febuary of this year I had an altercation with a pickup truck whilst riding my ZX7 roadbike home from a training course..I came of worse naturally and whilst I find it hard to blame the driver (because I was unconscious and have no memory of the accident or preceding day..) he has been charged with causing the accident and has admitted full liability. That's made life a lot easier from this end...

The injuries weren't so easy though..the main injuries were; 

A double bi-lateral fracture of the pubic rami (4 fractures of the pelvis)

Bi lateral wrist fractures (both wrists broken, left required plating)

Torn  left posterior cruciate ligament (knackered left knee)

Severe concussion (due to the level of nonsense I was spouting it took a while to diagnose this, it was assumed I was back to normal!) 

Despite being no stranger to these kinds of injuries, some of the pain I've experienced has been the best ever...the pain relief available to renal transplant patients is pretty limited due to toxic effects to the kidney so essentially pointless...so I've had no pain relief.. still 9 weeks later and I'm pretty much free of acute pain and everything looks like it's on the mend.. So much so I was able to cycle over 35km before I had to throw the towel in yesterday..

It's been a tricky couple of months..

As usual I've completely ignored the usual risk-averse advice from the doctors and gone with what feels right, my GB Transplant Cycling physio (Alison) has given some fantastic advice and as a result I'm recovering far quicker than expected by some. (still a bit slow for my liking!). So I've decided to enter the next Andreas Racing round at Jurby on May 11th and booked flights to the Island.. :) Now, at the moment. that feels a little bit rash as I'm still a bit feeble and wobbly...but it's over 3 weeks away and I am well on the way to being able to wobble round to a fashion.. ;)

There's been some delays at the U.S. side with the delivery of the electric TTXP2 racing bike so I'll be using the venerable Darvill Racing SV MiniTwin.

Keef has been raving like a loon about the new Continental Attack Race tyres too so I'm really looking forward to trying those out for the first time.

Keef will be terrorising everyone on the championship leading Darvil Z1 too.

There's been a delivery of shiny new team merchandise replete with our fantastic sponsors logos;

Continental tyres (Cambrian)

• PDQ
• Shark Helmets
• TCX Boots
• Held Gloves
• Wiz Racing
• I2V
• Small Red Gorilla Photography
• Forcefield Armour
• JHMC
• Dobbit IT
• APE Raceparts
• I Say Ding Dong
• Dogcam
• The Thundersprint
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We'll all be looking very 'factory' at the next meeting..And as I understand it our supporter's club the Darvill Devils have been 'adopting' us, which is a new thing for me so I'm looking forward to meeting the supporters and hopefully giving them something to cheer about..

Lets see how I get on...:)

Massive thanks to Al at Pistonlife for the photos.. :)