[Ducati] On the road again (I wish)

Tue Oct 30 13:41:03 EDT 2007

Add my prayer as well...

Harlyn 

-----Original Message-----
From: ducati-bounces at ducati.net [mailto:ducati-bounces at ducati.net] On Behalf
Of Rich Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:32 AM
To: Ducati Owners Group
Subject: Re: [Ducati] On the road again (I wish)

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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