2003 'shee For Sale

[MILO]

all i have to say is i hope you don't leave the sport all together. simmer down a little on a slower ride if you're comfortable with that, and get out and enjoy the great outdoors with your family. maybe someday the shee will be enticing again, but you will have a different attitude about it. i love riding my shee, but safety and my family are always on my mind. sometimes it takes something trajic to happen to provide for better and safer experiences in the future, for yourself and those you ride with. i'm a firm believer in the blessing in disguise, and that everything happens for a reason. whatever you decide, good luck, and good health to you.

[Ducman]

I'll throw in another story to convince you to stay on the shee. I lowsided my Ducati 996 when it was only 1 year old. I slid down the road quite a way and almost watched my duck and myself not far behind, slide over the edge of the road which would have sent us another 1000' down a super steep enbankment making it unrecoverable and me who knows what. I wasn't hurt too bad, it only took about 3 weeks to fully recover but I too lacked the confidence to get back in the saddle and ride fast and hard. Truthfully that was the only bad wreck that I have had as and adult and I have never road quite as fast and wrecklessly since that time even though my accident was caused by an unpredicatably dirty , sandy corner in the road and not my speed for that particular corner. But, after a while you will gain that confidence back and you will ride smarter from that point forward. After some time I think you will enjoy riding as you once did, but give it some time. Riding is a big release from living in the stressful lives we create for ourselves. Your family might not know it but they probably enjoy being with the you after a nice ride on the Banshee more than when your all caged up ridding the couch. I know I'd bug my wife to the point she'd make me go riding.