[Ducati] Dogs and bikes plus gear
Dennis Dalman
DDalman at mac.com
Sat Aug 25 00:06:36 EDT 2007
Thank you,my friend once again you are right ..ordered up a pair of
BMW Air2 for my new and enlightened feet..
older and wiser rooster does wish you well..
On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:57 PM, mo+omille wrote:
> Dennis... hope you get better soon... do the physical therapy.. it
> hurts like a bitch but worth it every day. I can see progress day
> by day.
>
> You'll be back out healthier and wiser. Stay safe!
>
> Pete
>
> On Aug 22, 2007, at 10:35 PM, Dennis Dalman wrote:
>
>> I can say something about this..Pete is straight.I read and
>> decided and bought..Arai supr.discovery jacket, 1st gear pants
>> 1600 miles to go..st4s and lots of backcountry skwiggles..add one
>> rock slide..and it isn't how comfortable I am in the weather but
>> rather how does the gear really work..shreaded jacket..
>> gouged helmet. ripped pants..and two broken feet..I didn't buty
>> the boots..reasons don't matter but the fkn gear does..As Pete sez
>> "it will happen!
>> Bugstain knows..
>> On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:31 PM, mo+omille wrote:
>>
>>> Alec... all I can say is that leathers with armor work. Period.
>>> Jokers who go on that sunday stroll in their jeans and even
>>> worse.. flip flops and a tanktop deserve what's coming to them.
>>> It will happen to you. There's a saying about the two types of
>>> riders... Rider's who have gone down and riders who will go
>>> down. No matter how good... how aware... how safe you are. It
>>> will happen.
>>>
>>> People... stay alive and buy a good suit with armor... spend the
>>> money... you'll thank me and yourself later...
>>>
>>> A good jacket with jeans and sneakers just doesn't cut it. Go
>>> from head to toe in good gear. A friend of mine got into a tiff
>>> with a taxi earlier in the year. The taxi clipped him. His
>>> Daytona riding boots were split open. Had he been wearing tennis
>>> shoes or low boots his foot would have been severed. He's a
>>> believer and limped away with a sprain.
>>>
>>> Stay safe. I can't wait to get back out there!
>>>
>>> Pete
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 20, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Alec Moss wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ouch!! All those 'superficial' fractures add up to major
>>>> downtime. Glad
>>>> you're recovering nicely though, and your spirits don't seem to
>>>> have taken
>>>> too big a hit.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alec
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8/19/07 9:59 AM, "mo+omille" <info at motomille.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Well... My story's much more recent and turned for the worse.
>>>>> Seven
>>>>> weeks ago I was coming back from a ride with a friend on hwy 1
>>>>> towards
>>>>> SF. Just north of Stinson I was coming around a blind corner
>>>>> on my
>>>>> Supermoto in full lean to only discover a huge turkey vulture
>>>>> in my
>>>>> lane. No bigge... I'll go around him. Just as I approached the
>>>>> damn
>>>>> thing it decides to fly away. Now I've been riding for a long
>>>>> time
>>>>> and know that the last thing you ever do in a corner is grab the
>>>>> brake. What did I do? Ducked to avoid the 30lb bird from
>>>>> knocking my
>>>>> head off and THEN grabbed the brakes! Needless to say I went
>>>>> into a
>>>>> lowside... No big deal. I've done this before. But now I'm
>>>>> sliding off
>>>>> the road into the pile of rocks that were layed there to raise the
>>>>> road up from the lagoon. When I stopped ragdolling through the
>>>>> boulders I found myself with a doslocated shoulder, broken
>>>>> elbow, arm,
>>>>> wrist, ribs, and leg. All superficial fractures since I was
>>>>> wearing
>>>>> full leathers and armour. I'm out of the cast and doing physical
>>>>> therapy. I can't wait to get back on the bike again!
>>>>>
>>>>> Pete Petras
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 19, 2007, at 4:47 AM, "John Whiting"
>>>>> <jvwhiting at palomaresources.com
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> And then there are Guineas(the fowl)....I was on a ride with a
>>>>>> 'competitive type' a few years back and we promised to lay off
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> red mist. Well, for about 2 hours, we were good, and then, we
>>>>>> got
>>>>>> into some hills and twist went the throttles. I top a hill going
>>>>>> about a buck twenty and in front of me are about 10 guineas,
>>>>>> all in
>>>>>> the road. The first 20 nanoseconds were dedicated to the
>>>>>> recollection of whether they were capable of flying and a short
>>>>>> prayer that they could not. Then I just dropped my chin to
>>>>>> the tank
>>>>>> and road thru them. The guy behind me said they ran in a
>>>>>> mixmaster
>>>>>> formation, and then parted like the waters to Moses and I sliced
>>>>>> thru no problem; very lucky for me. They are pretty good sized
>>>>>> birds, with an apparently decent reaction time and good
>>>>>> peripheral
>>>>>> vision. And no, not one of them had time to consider flight.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: ducati-bounces at ducati.net on behalf of tampabaydesmo
>>>>>> Sent: Sat 8/18/2007 7:55 AM
>>>>>> To: ducati at ducati.net
>>>>>> Subject: RE: [Ducati] Dogs and bikes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That is funny!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am curious as to how others evade cows. The only one I
>>>>>> encountered
>>>>>> just
>>>>>> stood there. I slowed down and went around. It stared me down
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> some
>>>>>> bully in elementary school. It may have even tried me (ok I
>>>>>> grew up in
>>>>>> Detroit).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think one cow is not as much of a problem. I would suspect if
>>>>>> there were
>>>>>> more then one, they may get spooked and bum rush you as you
>>>>>> tried to
>>>>>> pass
>>>>>> though them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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