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Can you jet ski with a broken back? If you’re Simon Cowell, you most definitely can.
All jokes aside, back injuries can have all degrees of severity and the recovery period is contingent on them. Simon Cowell, music mogul and worldwide famous television personality, broke his back earlier this year, when he fell off a brand new electric trail motorcycle in his own driveway, but has now put it behind him.
In August this year, Cowell flew his new, very expensive e-bike from the UK into the U.S.: a Swind EB-01, technically a trail motorcycle marketed as the world’s most powerful e-bike. Since it wasn’t road legal in either country, he had plans to take it up the trails but failed to do the number one thing he should have done: read the owner’s manual before taking it out on the first ride.
Cowell is believed to have accidentally hit torque, which made the EB-01 pop a wheelie and throw the unsuspecting 61-year-old on top of it to the ground. He broke three of his vertebrae and was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent six-hour surgery, followed by a couple of months’ worth of intensive physical therapy.
The good news is that Cowell is all back to normal now, despite initial fears that he might never be able to walk again or that he would with difficulty. The bad news is that he’s planning to sue the EB-01 maker for reportedly failing to train him before selling him the bike. He and the family are now in Barbados, and he’s been seen riding Yamaha jet skis on two separate occasions, at Brandon’s Beach and Rascal’s Waterpark. Photos from both are available in the tweet below, from British tabloid the Daily Mail.
Cowell’s family vacation comes after last weekend’s report, half-confirmed by his publicist, that he was planning to sue the makers of Swind, Swindon Powertrain. A whistleblower with Swindon went to the media with claims that he had warned bosses that the e-bike was “death on wheels” in the hands of an untrained rider, such as Cowell, and that it needed formal training before shipping.
Cowell’s publicist claimed that Cowell’s efforts to sort this through with Swindon were meant to protect future customers from similar injuries. At the same time, reports claimed that, if he did decide to sue, Cowell could get as much as £10 million (roughly $13.6 million at today’s exchange rate) in compensation.
In August this year, Cowell flew his new, very expensive e-bike from the UK into the U.S.: a Swind EB-01, technically a trail motorcycle marketed as the world’s most powerful e-bike. Since it wasn’t road legal in either country, he had plans to take it up the trails but failed to do the number one thing he should have done: read the owner’s manual before taking it out on the first ride.
Cowell is believed to have accidentally hit torque, which made the EB-01 pop a wheelie and throw the unsuspecting 61-year-old on top of it to the ground. He broke three of his vertebrae and was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent six-hour surgery, followed by a couple of months’ worth of intensive physical therapy.
The good news is that Cowell is all back to normal now, despite initial fears that he might never be able to walk again or that he would with difficulty. The bad news is that he’s planning to sue the EB-01 maker for reportedly failing to train him before selling him the bike. He and the family are now in Barbados, and he’s been seen riding Yamaha jet skis on two separate occasions, at Brandon’s Beach and Rascal’s Waterpark. Photos from both are available in the tweet below, from British tabloid the Daily Mail.
Cowell’s family vacation comes after last weekend’s report, half-confirmed by his publicist, that he was planning to sue the makers of Swind, Swindon Powertrain. A whistleblower with Swindon went to the media with claims that he had warned bosses that the e-bike was “death on wheels” in the hands of an untrained rider, such as Cowell, and that it needed formal training before shipping.
Cowell’s publicist claimed that Cowell’s efforts to sort this through with Swindon were meant to protect future customers from similar injuries. At the same time, reports claimed that, if he did decide to sue, Cowell could get as much as £10 million (roughly $13.6 million at today’s exchange rate) in compensation.
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— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) December 16, 2020
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