British Superbike and TT star Simon Andrews has got his recovery back on track following a recent scare which saw him rushed into hospital with blood clots on both lungs.

The Evesham man is now able to move around almost unaided and is getting his diet and training regime back on track with the help of a nutritionist who works with the England rugby squad. On the downside, he has now got access to the internet and is in the process of filling up certain people's inboxes with questionable material.

Andrews was staying within a literal stone's thrown of the London riots and has spent the last few weeks bed ridden, only getting up to go to the toilet where he has blacked out more than once. His breathing became so laboured, however, he had to be taken to a nearby hospital where he was admitted immediately.

"I came out of hospital just five days after my bone graft to keep my body functioning but my breathing started to get quite heavy and painful on the second day. It got steadily worse and once asleep something popped and I got the feeling that someone was seriously wrong. You know when you really, really don't feel right so I got taken into hospital at one in the morning ready for chest scans," said Andrews, wheezing to bikesportnews.com this afternoon.

"They stuck me alongside a geriatric ward and I thought to myself, 'There is no way I am going to end here wearing a catheter parked outside an OAP ward'. If I'm going out, I am doing it in a fiery blaze of awesomeness. The doctors discovered two big clots that had already been through my heart building up in my lungs the next problem was to not let them get to my brain, but there's a lot of room up there. It was touch and go for a while.

"It is a lot better now and I've finally got control of my INR blood levels. I am feeling better in myself and I am a lot less grumpy, apparently. The plan is keep my nutrition on track as I lost a lot of weight and get my energy levels up along with physio at home and then go up to Cadwell Park to see the physiotherapists there for a couple of days so they can assess how they think I am doing."