Hello friends, Dan here.

My wife received a phone call on Friday asking if she was at home and
if she was alone, was she sitting down and then a young lady
proceeded to tell Connie that Her husband was in a motorcycle truck
accident and has been air lifted to Fort Wayne , Indiana as he was T-
boned and she should get there fast. Well sorta, like that . It never
ceases to amaze me how often I guy can bust his ass without really
trying. I was out joy riding on my Chinese whizzer and a couple off
kids pulled up along side of me while I was tooling down a country
road and they eyeballed me and my rig gave me the thumbs up ,crowded
me a little unintentionally forcing me to ride in the horse tracks on
a downhill grade at about 25 MPH. This resulted in a lot of bumps and
vibration in the basically unsuspended frame of the little 24" Huffy.
Well the front fender has a little chrome stamped steal support
bracket clamped with a 6mm bolt and it is almost fragile. Long story
short the front fender mount broke and the tire grabbed the fender
and wrapped it around the front axle two and half times in nano
seconds and caved the front wheel in. This created a square wheel and
slapped my Ass over the front handlebars and jarted me into the
asphalt. All for the entertainment of a Amish man in a buggy that I
has just recently passed. Well the kids no doubt scared just kept
booking and it was not their fault anyways. I went from joy riding on
a bicycle to next thing I remember is flying in helicopter. I was
unhappy that I was strapped to a board and could not see anything.
I have been released from the hospital and my official diagnosis
at this time is , two broken ribs, one broken collarbone , one
fractured cheek bone, 7 stitches above my eyelid, four stitches
behind my ear, abbbbrassions , contusions , bruises , and general
irritability. I have hurts internally where I did not know I had
places. Morphine good for a while , Vikadin , seems to paralyze the
bowels, so this all falls under the heading of Shit Happens! My dad
and I have often lamented the fact that you do not have to try and
bust your Ass,more than enough opportunities come along everyday
without trying. My wife has been a real trooper. I am really
incapacitated while my left arm is in a sling. She is picking up the
slack and not complaining. I cannot believe sometimes how something
so small and so simple can cause so much grief. I am really lucky
under the circumstances and while I looked like death warmed over for
the first few days I am fairing pretty well. The truck and I never
made contact that I know of and I do not remember the crash , I
figured out the fender thing by looking at it . I will post a photo
for the curious and thanks again to all the well wishers. My wife
Connie really appreciated the responses. Dyno Dan

PS I am continuing research and development on the whizzer racing
team and I think this warrants a upgrade on the fender mounting
hardware. I find out next week if I will require surgery for the
partially torn rotator cuff. UGGGH