May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.

Motorcyclists are urged to get trained, licensed and to wear a helmet.

This month is also a reminder to other drivers to share the road.

This week on Chris Coffey's Viewfinder, meet a Perinton man who has a new way to "drive" the message home.

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Tiger McManus would tell you he's a life long biker, despite the fact that 25 years ago he suffered a biker’s worst nightmare. A truck pulled out in front of him.

"They didn't expect me to live. I took the handlebars in the stomach. It messed up everything inside. It tore the top of my bladder right off, fractured pelvis. I got steel plates in my arm. I was in bad shape," said McManus.

July 29, 1986. A date that might have marked the end of Tiger's biking for good, but it didn't.

"Any real biker will tell you, you can have the worst day going, and you get on that bike, get in the wind and it puts everything back in perspective,” said McManus.

Tiger is also a musician and songwriter. Two talents that would help heal the long term pain. Tiger wasn't alone that night.

"Julie. She would be my future wife at that time. We weren't together that long because of her death. She was my soul mate, and when I lost her I didn't want to live. I really didn't."

Tiger wrote a song about the accident. While he has musical talent, singing isn't part of it.

With that in mind he asked for help from a friend, legendary blues singer Joe Beard. The two met five years ago. Music brought them together.

"To me this is the only time that a tragic motorcycle accident has ever been put to music. It shows what the victim goes through," said McManus.

"If you tell a story to an individual he hears you then it’s gone, but if there is a story in music, he will take notice,” said Beard.

"I'm hoping that more than just the motorcycle riders will listen to this and pay attention to this tragedy, and pay more attention to that motorcycle rider that he sees ahead of him, or behind him."

Joe Beard plans to record a new album in October.

Tiger's song, "In Memory of Julie," will be included.