MotoDrunken,

Wow Muchacho! Sorry to hear about your get-off and resulting list of injuries but I am glad that you're taking it in good stride and looking forward to getting back in the saddle.

Bikes are deceptively powerful machines, even the cheapest of them, but like you said so many times the fault is usually the riders and this is a major way to know if someone is what I consider a "real" rider. Ultimately we are responsible for what we do and only a fool denies himself the relationship between his decisions and their consequences. I've also cartwheeled a bike, getting my ass launched into the air like from a catapult at almost 70kph resulting in tow operations in a pinned collar bone. The problem was my lack of judgment/experience and always will be. Let's be clear...you are not alone!

I don't think there's an easy and legal way to set a new speedo-unit to the old-unit's mileage that doesn't involve plenty of beer and lots of wheel spinning. Forchetto, good man that he is, has mentioned a bicycle computer that allows you to set the beginning mileage but if this is not attractive to you, consider that a new unit starting from "zero" might be a good thing...symbolically anyway!

Speedy recovery brother man and here's hoping you come back stronger and wiser than ever!

Paz,
CrazyCarlo

P.S.
You got any pics of the bike damage?