[Ducati] Insurance ponderings

Thu Feb 15 16:34:13 EST 2007

Guys, I too have been through the Have You Learned You Lesson speech and I 
always reply...No! Hell just sitting on my front porch having a smoke is a 
chance at being the victim of an errant bullet from a drive by. I have seen 
lots of my friends and family involved in car wrecks some that required 
extraction with the Jaws of life. Maybe I should ask them if they Learned 
Their Lesson and to not get into a cage again. My old relatives were cowboys 
and I'm sure they didnt give up their horse because it decided to throw the 
rider off. My 76 year old Father in law was thrown over the head of a horse 
he had been riding for 8 years and landed on his back breaking his Shoulder 
Blade and Tail bone. Did he quit riding...Hell No and neither am I !

Peace...Ron"Desmohead"Betts 95 900 SP
I've learned that I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it!

>From: "the Kid" <thekid at autoartbythekid.com>
>Reply-To: Ducati Owners Group <ducati at ducati.net>
>To: "Ducati Owners Group" <ducati at ducati.net>
>Subject: Re: [Ducati] Insurance ponderings
>Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:31:17 -0700
>
>Peoples attitude towards motorcyclists are funny. Especially when an 
>accident was involved. I don't talk about my accident much, but It was one 
>of those that put life into perspective for me. I stopped taking the 
>important things in my life for granted, or at least try to.
>While in the hospital, after a week in ICU, and I was coherent enough to 
>know what I was saying and who I was talking to, I noticed that the nurses, 
>doctors,  friends and family that came to visit me, wanted to know if I 
>"learned my lesson" . If I was through with my "murder cycle". Obviously I 
>am not. ( One of the first things I did, being an artist and all,  was   
>get a hold of a pencil and paper and proceed to draw a racer on a Duc 
>dragging knee across the apex of a turn. I am right handed, but I did this 
>with my left, since my right wrist was fractured. Quit riding my ass! lol) 
>I tried to explain why. The accident wasn't my fault; Sure riding is 
>dangerous, so is walking down the street, actually so is pretty much 
>anything a person can do to make life interesting. Riding is exciting, 
>invigorating. Why should I quit, the accident had nothing to do with myself 
>or my bike, it was the driver of the van that was at fault....... etc, etc. 
>They just didn't get it. They don't get that even though they may not ride, 
>they do something in their life that is dangerous.
>  Case in point: My father is anti motorcycle. He appreciates them, but 
>see's them as an accident waiting to happen. One of my Dad's, and my 
>Mothers, favorite past times is to go backpacking. Their Honeymoon was 
>spent backpacking in the Sierras far away from civilization. I grew up 
>backpacking. When I was 10, one sister 8 and the other 4, our family took a 
>trip to Colorado where we spent 2 weeks backpacking to the continental 
>divide and back! No guns for protection, only smarts and a dog (sheepdog, 
>lol@ protection)
>My point here is that there are a great many people, maybe even some on 
>this forum, that would consider backpacking in the wilderness dangerous. It 
>is! but again, anything worth while is going to have some form of danger.
>I have since quit trying to rationalize with people who don't get my 
>addiction with two wheels (more specifically Ducati's ;) ) They either get 
>it or they don't. Most of them mean well. No one wants to see someone get 
>hurt. But life isn't worth living if your free time is spent being a couch 
>potato!
>Being involved in a major motorcycle accident is no picnic. I would not 
>wish it on my worst enemy. I have chosen to look at the plus side of mine 
>and actually glad it happened. ( I could have lived without the pain and 
>horrible experience, but glad it woke me up to the important things in my 
>life.) I too hope you can find some good in your accident and that it never 
>happens to you again.  Be safe!
>Charles Armstrong, aka... the KID
>'02 998
>'01 996
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Gleeb Gliber Galactica Gavorti" 
><evilposterchild at yahoo.com>
>To: "Ducati List" <ducati at ducati.net>
>Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:41 AM
>Subject: [Ducati] Insurance ponderings
>
>
>>Hey Mike/Moonbeam
>>
>>  Glad you are still riding too!
>>
>>  I think there are a few more of us on the list here who fall into the 
>>same category of "won't stop riding, even after I'm dead."  The list seems 
>>to attract that type it seems to me.  "We" understand even if "they" 
>>don't.
>>
>>  My brother, a rider for 20+ years is now going to sell his Honda 
>>Superhawk after dealing with the repurcussions of my accident and seeing 
>>me all F*ed up.  No more street riding for quite a while for him.  He does 
>>not want his family to suffer if he gets "dinged up."  BUT he still has a 
>>dirtbike and is definately keeing it.  So I might buy the Honda from him 
>>and turn it into a track bike.  Heh, heh.  He's cool with that.  I'm 
>>trying to get him to get a bike for his son who is already 5 and should 
>>have been riding years ago!
>>
>>  PEACE and RIDE WELL, one and all
>>
>>  Gabriel
>>  Hypermoto in my future?  Needs a bigger fuel tank.  Hmmmmmm.
>>  2004 Triumph Tiger.  Actually just a heavy/comfortable Hypermoto.  FUN.
>>
>>
>>
>>  (SNIP)
>>
>>  Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:11:26 -0800 (PST)
>>From: mike major <textike at yahoo.com>
>>Subject: Re: [Ducati] Insurance Ponderings
>>To: Ducati Owners Group <ducati at ducati.net>
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>>In 1966 I had a real bad one, in a coma several weeks,
>>lots of fractures.  I friend of mines Daughter sent me
>>a letter I wrote from the hospital.  In it I say that
>>everyone here seems to think I'v learned my lesson,
>>but they're wrong.  Then I go on and speculate about the
>>next bike I plan to buy.  Sounds like, dispite the gap
>>of several decades, we might have some of the same
>>sperit and I hope it works out for you as well as it has
>>for me.  Later, Moonbeam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>"There's nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can't 
>>prolong."  -Python, Monty.
>>
>>"Get off your cross...  We need the wood!"   - ?
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