[Ducati] On the road again (I wish)

Tue Oct 30 11:56:04 EDT 2007

My thoughts and prayers are with you - Gene
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Rich Roberts <bigredxrunner at yahoo.com>
> We are all so glad to have Peter back, I do not think he was werting my old 
> Aerostitch but it gives me some comfort to think that something like it helped 
> him.
>    
>   Not to dismiss his accident or make light of it in any way I need the prayers 
> of the list this day. My wife was hit by a car riding her bicycle home from work 
> last night and is in intensive care, she is in a very bad way. Though only on 
> her bicycle she and I share many things including our love for motorcycles. A 
> vehicle mirror knocked her off and another vehicle hit her on the ground. This 
> is the love of my life and a strong woman but no match for a car. We always 
> worried about such things but she loved riding and I could never tell her not to 
> do something she loved. She has one collpased lung, and they are worried about 
> the other, broken ribs, laceration, shoulder fractures, subdural hematoma etc 
> etc...and last night all she could do is apologize for being a problem and asked 
> me 10 times to take car of her kitties. if you believe in anything Pray Pray 
> Pray. Please. People think I am a tough guy, but I am not......she has so much 
> life and love and kindness in her, we can
>  not lose her. Not just for me.... but for everyone she touches....please say a 
> prayer for your neighbor...for my wife today. thank you. Rich
> Scottie Ducati <scottieducati at gmail.com> wrote:
>   SUCH good news... and always entertaining to hear some of your memories.
> I hope it is a reminder to all, to wear your gear. it clearly played a HUGE
> role in saving a life this time around....
> 
> SO happy to hear you're back home :-)
> 
> Scottie.D
> 
> On 10/29/07, John Whiting wrote:
> >
> >
> > Glad you are home and all sounds like it is on the mend. Don't push TOO
> > hard. I can tell you, from my little off, that good judgment beats
> > macho on this subject. I had complications several days after my crash,
> > so be prepared to adjust your thinking on recovery time and don't let
> > any of the potential delays get you down.
> >
> > I, for one, am glad you are still around, if for nothing else, to give
> > you shit at the appropriate times. You KNOW what I am talking about. To
> > survive is to affirm life, and that is always a good thing. Puts other
> > 'problems' in perspective (for me) and is generally cathartic.
> >
> > JW
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ducati-bounces at ducati.net [mailto:ducati-bounces at ducati.net] On
> > Behalf Of Peter Bonner
> > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 6:41 PM
> > To: Ducati Owners Group
> > Subject: [Ducati] On the road again (I wish)
> >
> > Thanks to all the many fine folk out there!!!!!!
> >
> >
> > It is really nice to get so much encouragment from a great bunch of
> > folks.
> > Whilst laying in the hospital feeling a bit less than 100%, it was quite
> > a
> > tonic to get so many nice notes, which my wife had read to me, during
> > periods of awakeness. You folks are just the greatest!!!
> >
> >
> > Without a doubt, this was the weirdest experience of my life. From
> > starting
> > to ride with a 57 Tiger Cub back in 1962, I had only ridden a couple
> > months
> > when traveling Euclid avenue past the park in Berkeley, CA when I
> > lowsided
> > the Cub after hitting a manhole cover in a seriously sharp and low speed
> > "sweeper" and harmlessly slid across the street with a bloody elbow for
> > my
> > efforts. Since that time, I have had hundreds of accidents, most on the
> > dirt
> > at the Richmond Ramblers hillclimb place, the old Hayward cycle park
> > (now
> > gone) or the Off and On trails along grizzly peak and skyline behind
> > Berk.
> > and Oakland. Some dirt racing, mostly just riding, but we had a crazy
> > growing up, roadracing the streets of Berkeley on knobby tyres to go
> > hillclimbing in what is now "ecological study area'. Later moving to New
> > Mexico, and continuing more riding, but less dirt, the crashes
> > continued,
> > but now on road racing tracks, and higher speeds. My first race ever
> > came at
> > Steamboat Springs where I garnered a third place at the BOTT as Jon
> > Winona
> > got first (and second in the open superbike pro class) and Chris (?)
> > Stewart, the Yamaha factory paid rider, while my 1981 Hailwood replica
> > was
> > still new and uncrashed. Improving from there, I was lucky enough to
> > have a
> > nice time racing, be in the top ten a number of years, win some class
> > championships, and survive all crashes without bones broken. Spent some
> > time
> > as track school instructor and race school director without any hospital
> > visits. Then two years ago, while commuting to a class I was teaching at
> > UT
> > Austin, my 05 Strada went down in a rainstorm after a long drought,
> > victim
> > of bad road surface and flooding oil on the road, for my second ever
> > road
> > crash. Low side, totalled bike, but not even much of a burn on the
> > aerostich. However in june this year, a deer on the road caused my son
> > to
> > crash my monster S4, and it wound up a great deal came up on an 06
> > Strada,
> > so I snagged it, leaving the way clear to take the old one to CA where
> > it
> > lives with Brewmeister son Aaron, ready for Hill House Laguna. Pretty
> > cool,
> > just fly out and have a bike. But work has been unbelievable, so instead
> > of
> > myt 2k a month usual, I had barely put any miles on the new bike. So for
> > the
> > Harvest fest in Luckenbach, I thought, hey, a short ride up and back.
> >
> > Never made it. Was doing all of about 25 mph, crossed a cattleguard,
> > sunk
> > the front wheel in a bunch of dirt/rocks/gravel that covered the other
> > side
> > of the road from cattle guard and lost the front end. Thought I had it
> > figured out. Last thing I remember, the front wheel was slipping in the
> > gravel. Also a little blurb of memory about trying to get ready to ride
> > home, but fainted on bike and knocked it over, after which I was
> > persuaded
> > to take ambulance. More on this later.
> >
> > Suffice it to say, that after my low speed get off, I arrived at the
> > hospital with a blood pressure of zero, no pulse rate, a hematocrit of
> > 20, 4
> > broken ribs, broken shoulder blade, collapsed lung, and requiring 6
> > liters
> > of blood, which is pretty much all I hold. I was wearing an Arai helmet,
> > and
> > Darian lite jacket and pants from Aerostich. Had I not been wearing that
> > gear, I would have bled a little more, and just a little more blood
> > loss,
> > and I would have been dead on arrival.
> >
> > WOW, it sure feels good being home, breathing air, walking around, and
> > knowing that so many kind people like the folks on this list were
> > supporting
> > me in my time of need. Thanks again, all of you, for your support, it
> > does a
> > great deal to lift one's spirits while in the hospital.
> >
> > All for now, but more to come.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
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