Third video of me on my first ride of my on handicap-accessible motorcycle. Im surprised at how quickly I started to really get the hang of it.
Check out my other videos to see me getting the hang of the bike and mounting it without help.
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My name is Kristofer Reckner, I am now 26 years old and paralyzed from my chest down. I was injured on Memorial Day, May 26, 2008 when a driver merged into me on my other motorcycle without looking on the highway, and slid headfirst into the guardrail, which 'blew out' my T6/T7 vertebrae. After 8 months in the hospital, 2 rods and 12 screws in my back and a plate with 2 screws in my arm, I vowed that I would someday ride again and never lost my focus. Living on disability and without the support of any family, and even before buying a new vehicle, I saved enough money to get a new motorcycle, and found a machinist to modify it with a landing gear type setup that goes up and down at the push of a button mounted next to the throttle, and has electronic shifter and rear thumb brake on the clutch side. Before they passed away, my parents were both trophy Trials riders back in the 70's and my father was a 1%er biker, and was a founding member of the Grim Reapers Motorcycle Club, back in his day, which was eventually roled into the Hell's Angels. I put 20,000 miles on my bike in two and a half seasons, and after my father passed away I rode his Yamaha V-Star cruiser 2,600 miles from his house in Idaho to my house in upstate New York in 3 days, plus another 5,000 miles in the course of one season. I feel like riding really has always been so much a part of my blood and my life that part of this whole project was for them. The other half was for all the haters that said I wouldn't. couldn't or shouldn't ride again. Thank you to my builder Byron Waterman and to my buddy Kyle for helping me tape and get used to the bike for the first time!
