Back in Dec 2021 I took a spill - some of you may remember the post. Just me in a turn, no cars, no passengers. My shoulder vs. pavement. Pavement won. Looked for about 10 months for a replacement and found in Oct 22. Rode it home and felt pretty good. I did a couple of things to it to make it mine and rode it again. Felt horrible (not the bike itself), less confidence than my very first ride on a motorcycle. I did not like that feeling at all.
I guess what I'm looking for is a little help on how to go about this - more riding, one on one training, sell it and get a new hobby. What have you done after having a wreck and a significant injury?

It was my first wreck in 18 years of street riding (dirt bike wrecks never bothered me but I was 35 years younger then) so it is all new to me and I sure hate this feeling.

 

Very sorry to hear that you are feeling this way, confidence can be such a delicate thing
Not had a bad spill for many year so difficult to comment directly on your situation, however here is my 2 pennies worth.
Do you really want to carry on riding, if so understanding what happened and how you would address it in the future would be essential and in order to address that one to one training would be ideal, taking it easy to build the confidence back up.
If not choose another hobby that you are comfortable in doing.

Every day is a school day and we should never stop learning.
Due to a couple of near misses over the last few years which could have ended up quite badly I recently undertook some additional advance rider training with one of our local groups (ROSPA in the UK) after some 35 years of riding and found it invaluable in getting back to the basics and developing our riding by following the systems that the police bike riders in the UK use (documented in Motorcycle Roadcraft book).
https://zoboko.com/book/g2eyl655/roa...k-2020-edition
I followed this up with a biker safety course run in conjunction with the police riders which also gave me a different perspective on how accidents happen and regardless of who was at fault focused on what we could have done to lessen the risk.
Hope this helps in some way.
Good luck on your journey

 

Start using the bike for practical purposes, not for fun rides - you need to relax back into riding. Take the bike shopping, to work etc. Use it as a form of transportation for a while - you might find you quickly get over the past.

 

I posted this on another group I frequent and have been getting a lot of repsonses there as well. I think I have an idea why it's so difficult.

Before I would be aware of my surroundings, but still be relaxed and enjoy being out - things worked. I trusted myself. Now I find myself analyizing everything and thinking about how much steering/braking/throttle input every time I do something. It isn't natural anymore.
know the wreck happened because I grabbed too much front brake. It was 100% my fault, no other vehicles involved or causing me to take action on their part. I was coming up to a 90 degree turn, been through it many times, and no matter how much I leaned or pushed the bars it seemed like the bike wanted to go straight. There was a red truck coming the opposite direction and it seemed like he was in reverse - going exactly where the bike wanted to go. It got to a point I had to try and stop so I did. Front brakes and the tire washed out form under me. Only thing I dont know is why it didn't want to turn. About 500 feet earlier I went through another 90 and everything felt great.

I will start just riding to ride, but to work is difficult because - rush hour traffic sucks. When I do I take the toll way because it's less crowded and I don't trust the others.

 

Low front tire pressure is the biggest reason a bike won't steer - mine acts like it's on a straight rail if I lose a few psi from the front.