Simon Cowell is back driving on an electrical bike once more a year after breaking his back in an accident whereas biking, claiming that it has made him stronger.
Cowell fell off what he claimed was an e-bike close to his dwelling in Malibu, California last August, breaking his back and inflicting him to endure surgical procedure.
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Despite that, Cowell appears at the accident in a optimistic mild, stating that he feels fortunate he wasn’t paralysed from the accident.
Speaking in an interview with Extra, Cowell stated: “If it had been another millimetre, then it would have been a different story.”
Despite the near-catastrophic results from the crash, the British TV personality claims that recovering from his broken back helped him to become stronger today.
“Honestly, if I could rewind, I would have gone through the whole thing again,” he said. “Just because I feel better now.
“Even though it hurt like hell at the time.”
The 62-year-old is back biking now although, driving a pedal-assisted e-bike. He attributes his e-bike to serving to him get back to exercising, driving ten miles a day with the assist of the electrical energy.
“My most creative time is now when I cycle, because I cycle even though it’s an e-bike. I still got to pedal and I do about 10 miles a day… even though I had an accident on one. That was more an electric motorbike; these are called pedal-assist bikes, and they’re brilliant.”
The America’s Got Talent judge has managed to make a full recovery, and is now back working in the United States.
“That expression ‘get back on your bike,’ with me, it was literal. I feel better than I did because I exercise so much more.”
However, the Bicycle Association argued that Cowell was driving an electrical bike, not an e-bike, at the time of the crash.
According to reviews, Cowell was driving a Swind EB-01, which runs on 15 kilowatts of electrical energy and is able to speeds as much as 60mph – UK regulation imposes a most pace restrict of 15.5mph on e-bikes.