Subject: Re: Midohio-The Devil's Playland - long
Author: 3haw-@bluefrog.biz
Date: Jul 29, 2003, 6:54 PM
Post ID: 1713962927
Kevin,
Good to meet you at Mid Ohio and glad to hear you made a nice recovery so
far. Hope the same for your bike. Keep the faith, Bob Hawkes
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Graf <kgr-@midwestpension.com>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:44 AM
Subject: Midohio-The Devil's Playland - long
| Hey all, Yup, yup, yup. Ah crap where to start? I know, let me say that regardless of finishing up my weekend in the hospital, which by the way, the Mansfield Hospital has THE nicest staff, A 180 from Detroit!, I had a blast. It was a real pleasure meeting more folks on this list and seeing old friends at Midohio. Mike, real cool finally meeting you, thanks for the shirt, It became my recovery/lounge around the house wear for days on end! Paul K., always great to see you. Next year-I'll promise I won't crash before we get to the bar, Thanks for you help out there, email me. Darrell, maybe I should've borrowed your scooter to get me back! Nice classic ride Bro:-} It was cool meeting Roberto, and of course the legend himself Gordon and of course his wife(?). I hope you guys got back to wisc. OK. Crazy folk out thar in Wisc. Loops on ice? Yeah, I'll be talking to you real soon. It was great seeing everyone else. Charlie, Fred(thanks for the brainwaves)and everyone else I might be an asshole for not mentioning. Sam, glad you didn't go? Anyways, I'm alive and well, I have no friggin' idea what happened. I remember leaving the track, making sure that Paul and Kevin were in tow and then waking up in the hospital. That's it. Something could've ran across the road, there could've been a car or it could've been all me. No idea. I guess we were all spaced out pretty good so Paul and Kev didn't see anything. Guess I did give them a pretty good scare, along with the pals already at the hotel. No broken bones, and I am a fast healer, If you were to see me today you wouldn't guess I wreck'd. Pissed I missed my Lap for History and a trip down to the museum but it will all be there next year. The bike faired ok I think. I will be going to a friends shop today to help with the insurance estimate. I do want to be up for the MI Guzzi rally in Sept. From a quick goings over the bike it looks as though it will need a frt. end and sheet metal. Basically everything that costs a chunk o' change I managed to wreck with the exception of the tool boxes that still use the original key. I'll start the thing tonight and check the engine, but I expect it to check out. Since my weekend got cut short I didn't get to see and do everything I wanted, but I did come back to the bike at one point to find that someone stuck a flier/invite to a vintage bike show in Daytona on the bike. My pal Kev also got one. Something called Concourse de Elegance(SP?). Made me very proud that they said a spot was reserved for the bikes. Now I start to wonder if someone there was trying to eliminate the competition??? With that said I do plan on putting the bike back to where it was, if not better and I'll be seeing all the Detroit crew around soon enough. Later, Kev |