Some back ground I suppose I started in the Courier game some 13 years ago in 1999, running around working for TNT, DHL & RICO to name just a couple of the "Big Boys" and a combination of numerous smaller courier companies & courier acquaintances, with MK BIKES emerging in the summer of 2006. Later that year in late October whilst riding down Vandyke road in Leighton Buzzard heading in the direction of Sheffield with a job on, I managed to collide with a quarry lorry, I was fortunate to just receive a glancing blow to the offside of the bike,unfortunately thats where my foot used to reside whilst on the bike. The aftermath resulted in a trip to Milton Keynes General where I learnt the very next day that the chances of being able to keep my right foot was very silm, however they persevered and after a week of debridement procedures every other day and a trip to Stoke Mandeville Hospital it became clear that there wasnt any hope and just 3 days later I had the operation to remove my right foot & leg below the knee (as foot amputations are not a common thing these days and a better prognosis is achieved with a below knee amputation). As you can guess this was a devastating blow not least because Alison & I had two small children Campbell nearly 4 and Kenzie nearly 2, not to mention Alan 18, Alison's disabled son from her first marriage.
I spent in total just over a month in hospital and when discharged quickly went to work on the job of selling our house we had only bought almost 4 years earlier due to the financial uncertainty of the situation. The house quickly sold and I continued to run MK BIKES by using 2 biker sub contractors. We moved just a short distance away from the old house and I managed to get fitted with a prosthetic leg some 10 weeks after the amputation, after initial struggles with fitting and tenderness I quickly got used to the prosthesis and even manage to jump back on a motorbike after 20 weeks and managed to do my first courier job almost 6 months to the day after the amputation.
With that back ground it kinda brings the story to very much the point I am at today, still running the courier business with two main biker sub contractors (albeit different ones and a few others in the process) and jumping on my bike or in the small van when the situation requires it, a host of other local sub contractors and several small courier business owners that I work closely with.
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