Not a bad time to reflect. One of the guys on the Yahoo FJ Club broke his back recently. He slipped off the road and down a nasty drop. Mercifully he is not paralysed, but 'there for the grace of God' as they say.
That said he's still in a pretty bad way. Ride safe all, stay alert. Barry Edwards ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 12:43 AM Subject: Biketoberfest > Hey all. > I wanted to give some reports on Biketoberfest and one of our brother > GTS'ers. Pat ran his first sanctioned race events this week at Daytona. He > rode in a 4 man 200 mile endurance race and the team ended up placing 5th out > of 13 in class. Not too bad considering three of the four riders had never > ridden Daytona or raced before. Unfortunately, in his sprint races, > everything was cut short and he never really got more than a couple laps in > in those so not much to report. > On a sad note, a racer was killed when a track official apparently lost his > balance and stumbled into the race line at the start finish. He was hit by a > racer at full speed. The official suffered two broken legs but the racer was > killed. Apparently, as a result of the impact, he lost control and shot > straight up the track and hit the wall head on, splitting his helmet open. > Godspeed. > Everyone ride safe, life, and the human body is a lot more fragile than we > like to admit. > RSRBOB
