[Ducati] On the road again (I wish)

[Alec Moss]

I'm so sorry Rich.  I can't imagine.  We'll be pulling for both of you at
our house.  


Alec


On 10/30/07 6:32 AM, "Rich Roberts" <bigredxrunner at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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