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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

What Happens After the Crash - Dave Prigel and Clinton Smout

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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4.9961 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

A few years ago, David Prigel had a motorcycle get-off on his way to work, one that resulted in injuries and a short stint at the hospital. David’s wife wasn’t keen on the idea of him getting back on the bike again, in fact she was adamant that...

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0:00.0

Back in 2017 we had a fellow named Dave Priggle on the show.

0:10.8

Dave's story was that he had just experienced a serious crash

0:15.2

with his KLR 650 and was recovering.

0:18.2

He'd written earlier in life, but he's basically a new rider.

0:20.2

He was a few months on the road,

0:21.2

then he had this crash. Before this, getting the motorcycle in the first place,

0:25.0

that was not a decision that was endorsed by his wife,

0:28.0

or his son for that matter.

0:30.0

In fact, his wife hated the idea.

0:32.0

She was totally against Dave Riding Motor School. In fact, his wife hated the idea.

0:32.8

She was totally against Dave riding motorcycles, and his son thought it was just too risky,

0:37.6

his dad shouldn't be doing it.

0:39.1

So when Dave had this

0:43.4

silly idea of riding motorcycles and return to normal life.

0:47.2

And Dave did too, for a while.

0:49.6

But no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't shake it.

0:52.3

He really fell in love with riding the motorcycle.

0:56.0

And so in lay his dilemma.

0:58.5

Now when Dave came on the show back in 2017 to tell his story,

1:01.6

we also asked if his wife would come on and talk about her feelings.

1:04.9

We had no idea if she would, or what she would be like when she came on.

1:08.8

This was huge for her because she wanted nothing to do with motorcycles and she certainly was not interested in helping us do a show about motorcycling.

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