To be honest, I couldn’t really do anything with my wrist in plaster, and I’m not good at doing nothing.

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We have a good friend Kevin who lives in Austin, and let’s us stay with him FOC – so rather than mope about at home fretting over what could have been, we jumped on a plane and went to Texas.

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The great thing about the internet is no matter where you are in the world, you can always find people who like bikes, and that’s what we did.

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Even managed to swing by Colin Edwards’ boot camp where there were lots of Brits on tour.

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Met up with bikers in San Antonia, and had a great snoop round Alpha Moto a custom shop on the outskirts.

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Then before we knew it, we were back in the UK, back at hospital and time to get my wrist working again.

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