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OK, so I went solo last week, but I got some interest from a few of you, so I plan on this again tomorrow night the 19th.  If you live here then hopefully you know where phantom canyon is, if not...shame on you!  :-)  I will be there hopefully with some more folks from the group this time, I'd like to meet some more folks that have the same italian passion as myself, so please make it if you can.  Also let any other local duc riders know about it, I'd like to start making this a weekly/biweekly event if we can.  Post up!!!  Better yet show up!!  great food and better brews!!  The heffe rocks!

hope to see you there,

brew

aka Dan   [beer]

I'll be there!  [thumbsup] Closer to 7pm though. I gotta finish putting together my new car. :P I swear someday I'll just buy something that runs......  [laugh]

cant be there...i already have another meeting. have fun ya'll

WooHoo!!!!  looks like a huge turn out of 2 so far c'mon people, I know there's more than three of us on this board!!!! 

brew

Would love to but I have wedding stuff to finsh up and have found it smarter not to piss off the fiance

Bonfy maybe in attendance. Smitch if you come drinks are on me.  [beer] You know why.

Well, I actually made it to the first official SoCo Dog DucNight (if you don't count Brew's solo appearance last week !  WooHoo!  It was great to meet ya, Brew, and you, too, Smitch, earlier in the day.  Thanks for your help!   :-[

Bonfy, you're amazing, I couldn't believe you were smiling after your accident!  Glad it happened close to your boys and they were able to swoop in to mom's rescue.  What's your other son's name again?  He and WDB are big boys, the bash brothers!

Don't piss off Bonfy.  She's tough, and so are her sons.

Well, I was still in denial a little about the whole situation plus the adrenalin hadn't worn off.   :(  My shoulder, neck, knee, thigh are sore this morning and my little finger is broken.  WDB is putting me on the bus in a couple hours and I will have it pinned or set when I get down to the Hood.  I was really lucky to have Anson and Briton available to help me.  You, too, man.  It is always such a relief to have the bike handled by loving Ducati hands and go straight to the shop rather than roughed up by an OTD tow truck driver and have the extra ordeal of transferring it from lot to shop.  We were also very lucky to get a cop that actually investigated what happened to uncover the faulty signal and taillights on the car.  I swear, just as soon as I have processed the lessons from the last get off and think I am much more prepared, something completely different rears its ugly head.  I am half expecting a boulder to fall from the sky about now.   :o

Okay, what happened?  Did you turn off your sixth sense?  It's been a banner summer for folks touching pavement.  Glad to know that you weren't seriously injured. 

yea, what happened????????

Glad to hear you are healing and are ok!

I just realized I was the one to let the cat out of the bag.  Sorry Bonfy.  Not cool of me!

Yeah!  What up wit dat, man?   :P

 [popcorn]

Alright, I usually need at least a week to cool off from my last waughed before I can fess up, but I'll try to get it together enough here to relate this latest escapade.  The NMMR is always the last to know, but with DDGM a regular on this board, he's probably already outed me down there (to the inner circle).  Everyone knows, but they just won't let me know they know till I bring it up.   

  Anyway, I'm westbound on Platte, one block west of Union.  I'm behind a black car tooling along about 20 mph, having just started up from the intersection.  The black car stopped to make a lefthand turn and had dim or no tailights, not sure which, and no signal.  It sounds so dumb to wad over that, but it was so sudden, I didn't even try to brake, but swerved and caught their right bumper.  I had planned a left turn myself in a few blocks coming up, so I wasn't really monitoring the right hand lane.  I'm guilty of that because my swerve was very half-hearted not knowing what might be there to rumble over me.  I could see that nothing was right beside me, but didn't  have time to look over my shoulder or find the mirror.  I landed on my head, neck, and shoulder.  I staggered to the bike to turn it off and could barely get to the kill switch.  Another motorcyclist helped me roll it out of the street.  A lady cop was passing by and she called all the response teams.  Later, after being asked over and over what happened, I simply couldn't figure out how I went into the back of this lady since I wasn't speeding (I swear) nor following too close, I told the cop I just didn't realized in time that she was stopped.  He went over to the car and conducted an investigation.  It turned out that she did not have taillights nor were her signals working.  She knew that before and admitted they were intermittent.  Dim at best, nonexistent at worst.  I must confess that my relief was immense, because I have to understand how something happened and my part in it.  This just didn't make sense.  So I got a ticket for following too close anyway since I rear-ended her, and she was sited for faulty taillights.  This one is going to cost me a lot more.

WannaDucBad and Briton, my other son, showed up soon after to help me gather myself, provide moral support, and a ride to Urgent Care.  Smitch arrived with the trailer from the shop.  I can't thank him enough.  I guess if anyone deserves to announce another bonfy dismount, it is him.   They will be looking it over to assess the damages.  We'll be rebuilidng this one.  Front wheel, fork, cracked tank, scratched termis.   :'( 

I am typing two fingers short right now.  My little finger was fractured.  They tried to pin it today but it was a no-go so I  will be having hand surgery next Wednesday.   Other than that, my shoulder is still numb where I landed, but x-rays didn't show anything.  My neck and back are sore and I have a giant bruise on my thigh where I raked over the handle bars.  Considering that when I was going through it, my thoughts were that I am breaking my neck, I feel pretty fortunate.  Once again, my gear saved me more serious damage.  Pix to follow as soon as I get some downloaded.

I am one with Jorge Lorenzo.  He is my liege.   :-[

Thanks to everyone for your concern!  SoCo Dogland is a soft place to land if it's gotta happen.   :-* 

Way to go Sean!!   j/k   ;D   Thanks again Bonfy and WDB for showin up it was cool to meet you both!  Good luck with the bike (fingers crossed not a total).  Look forward to hopefully a few more showing up next week!

brew

In my defense, this post led to me "outing" bonfy's mishap.

At risk of sounding uncooth, everybody should know that if you have a mishap, it's gonna come out here on the good ole DMF!  Wouldn't have it any other way. We're here for each other, for support, understanding, and ruthless mockery!

Bonfy, I winced while reading of your hand injury and bruises.  But glad you're no worse for wear.  BTW, I love the double meaning of your license plate, 'DRAGN'.

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Ain't that the truth!  It just takes me awhile to wrap my mind around it.  I have more to say but my typing can't keep up and 4AM will come early so I will have another go at this tomorrow.  These wrecks add a certain level of anxiety just sorting out the insurance much less getting back on two wheels ASAP.   [bang] 

Sorry to hear of the mishap.

Go see a chiropractor for the soft tissue damage...trust me, it works  [thumbsup]

We'll see you in Ouray next year, or somewhere in-between before then!

Sorry to hear of the accident, and it really sucks that you got a ticket. If you're pulling away from an intersection I'm assuming you're accelerating, which gives you even less time to realize the car in front of you is decelerating/stopped if they have no brake lights.

Glad to hear you are mostly ok.  So I have to ask, was Lance with you and is he ok?

 ;D

Yes, the little bastard was along.  It was his first wreck (to my knowledge) and clearly he wasn't at his post.  He usually gobbles those situations up and they are transparent to me.  He chortled and brayed through the aftermath with that imbecilic grin on his face.  He thought the bus ride home to New Mexico was a hoot, too. 

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I am so sorry to hear about this!! I hope you're feeling better and are back on the bike soon.

NO GO for me tonight, been down on the river all day, and I'm beat!!!

brew

Bonfy,

Wow, what a deal.  I hate that area of Platte on a bike. >:(  It's a low-life cross-roads.  I'm always on my brakes and in high-frequency scanning mode when riding thru that area.  Lots of blind lane changes, by drivers that usually are 20 mph slower than the rest of the traffic driving cars that are 30 years old. 

Sucks about the insurance and your hand.  Hope surgery goes well for you and that you get complete function back with no lingering effects.  Broken bones are no fun.  Glad to know that you are great spirits.  [wine]  Vicodin rocks!

Can't decide yet if Smitch is a good or bad luck charm.  He's always johnny-on-the-spot for all these accidents this summer.  A real knight in shining armor...  hmmn is he secretly releasing Grimlins so that he can play the hero role???  Is Saschwatch really real???  I'll leave you with these thoughts to ponder.

Cheers and pass the Vicodin!  [beer]

Hope you get feeling better soon.

Pres
Evil 999
 

Believe me, the thought crossed my mind.  But my personal aversion to crashes,injury, and unpleasantries in general leads me to nominate somebody else as club hero.  I've served my time! 

Walter, perhaps?

Thanks for the heads-up about Platte.  Maybe I could use a color-coded map of the Springs denoting areas of particular concern.  It has changed a lot in the 10 years I've been gone.  I wasn't aware my guard was down, but it must have been.  I will need an exit route when I come up to pick up the bike after WannaDucBad revives it for me.   ;D  Smitch, you done good in your shining knight role and it was much apperciated.  I'll try not to have to activate you for service again.

Who's Walter??

Oh yeah, I forgot, my hand surgery went fine.  Can't seem to find a pain-killer that doesn't make me nauseous so am just dealing with it with ibupropin.  I'd rather deal with pain than nausea.   

WHo's down to hit up phantom tomorrow Sept 2nd?  I will be there if anyone else wants to join!!!!  Let me know so I dont fly solo!

brew

 [thumbsup] shoot some stick?

I don;t claim to be good, but I know how to play!!!!  So I'm down!

brew

OK FOLKS...who else is gonna show tonight????  ANYONE?????  I know there are plenty of you out there!!!!

bew

For anybody looking.... both Brew and I have both had to bale. Please don't be standing down there looking for us. Brews off for fun and I ... not so much.

Sorry folks, but tickets for NIN (Nine Inch Nales in case you didnt know) at red rocks tonight just fell into my lap!  So you know where I'll be!!!!  maybe next week!!!!    [evil]

brew

Wohoo!!!!! 
Up to 4 Folks tonight!!!!!
 [beer]   [beer]

brew

W  E  A  K  !  !  !  !   So I guess I'll be going down there solo tonight!!!!!  Unless somebody can cast their excuses to the side and show up!!!!

brew

WooHoo!!!  Thought I was gonna fly solo tonight, and we ended up w/ 4 Ducs out front!!!!  Hopefully next week we'll have even more after I twist some arems on Sunday!  Maybe....just maybe we can get Sean to show his face!!!!

laterz,

brew

THAT-IS-AWESOME!!!!

Yeah it was, but we could had 5 ducs out front if your ass had showed up!!!!!!!  ;D     [beer]

brew

I will make every effort next Tuesday!  And I'll see you Sunday...

So if you showed up last week, sorry I was not there, I hiked the incline to barr camp and back and was spent!  if your down to go to night gimme a shout.  PM, email, text, replay to this post whatever! 

brew