West Valley City • Aaron Zimmer remembers flipping backward through the air, crashing into the hood of the car behind him and bouncing onto the road with a skid. The car had just rear-ended his motorcycle as he stopped to let a police car with sirens blaring pass by on a cross street in Orem.
“I didn’t break anything. I was just banged up,” he says, giving thanks for the helmet, boots, gloves and other protective body gear that he always wears while riding. “I always say, ‘dress for the slide not the ride’ — and without it I probably would have had at least a head injury.