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Re: Bad luck



Eric,
Maybe it was all just a ugly nightmare.

Greg & y2kblue
Aust.
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Sheley <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 1:03 AM
Subject: Bad luck


> For any of you having rough Mondays, I thought I might pass this along.
>
> Well they say bad luck comes in threes, so hopefully I am done for a
little
> while.... although as I suffered no permanent damage or injuries, maybe
> this was good luck?
>
> Saturday arrived after a really long week. Had a nice leisurely morning
and
> then decided to do a little work. Attempted to connect to our server at
> work and was rejected. Checked the rest of the network and everything was
> ok... not a good way to start the weekend.
>
> #1 - Once my wife returned home, I decided to trek off to work to check
> things out (90 miles one way). It was a nice sunny afternoon so I decided
> to take the bike. I suited up and headed off down my street. Stopped at
the
> end and began to pull out onto Fay (2 lane each way divided with a 35mph
> limit). In the median I slowed took another look and started to pull out.
I
> had seen a red mustang but it was still on the other side of the tracks -
> plenty of room at 35mph. As I pulled into my lane I caught a flash in my
> mirror and then felt the blast as the mustang flew past me on the right.
He
> screeched around a corner onto a side street almost taking out a bicyclist
> and then disappeared. My neighbor who had pulled out behind me and had
> narrowly missed being broad sided said that car was running at least
> 80-100mph and had missed me by only inches......
>
> #2 - 90 miles away in Lakeland, I exit I-4 and sit patiently at the light
> on the ramp (in the right hand lane) waiting for it to turn. As it turns
> green I check both directions (see #1 above) two or three times..... all
is
> clear and everyone has stopped. As I start through the intersection I see
a
> car coming down the ramp behind me in the left lane at a high rate of
speed
> obviously attempting to beat the light. I am keeping an eye as I start
> turning into the intersection waiting for the smoke as the driver locks
> them up to make the corner. He never does...... The car comes straight
> through the intersection headed across the lanes toward where I am going
to
> be in a matter of seconds. I grab ahold of the brake and pull it for all
> that she's worth, hoping in that split second that I can slow down enough
> to hit the side of his car and not be mowed down by the front.....
>
> In the next few seconds I cannot tell you what happened. I just missed the
> side of his car and he left a cloud of smoke and dust as he bounced over
> the curb and then back onto the road surface and sped off. I pulled off
the
> road and just sat there for a couple of minutes. After my heart rate
> returned to normal, I proceed off the few miles to work.
>
> #3 - Now 10:00 pm, I had left to pick up some food while waiting on the
IBM
> repairman. I picked up my food and got back without incident. As it was
> late I decided to roll the bike into the lobby (something I have done many
> times without incident). As I got it lined up so that I could still walk
> around it I went to drop it onto its sidestand. Unfortunately the rug had
> caught the stand and moved it just out of the locked position. As the ST
> passed the catch point, I realized that something was terribly wrong.....
I
> made the first catch attempt at about 60-70 degrees - by about 45 degrees
I
> remember thinking how smart it had been to fill the gas tank only minutes
> before - damn this thing is heavy when it gets leaning. I got it stopped
> just before any plastic touched down. I somehow got it back upright (being
> careful not to throw it over to the other side) and got it on to a locked
> sidestand.... Got a nice black boot mark on the 3m film just below my
seat.
> I have no idea how my foot got up there, but the mark doesn't lie.... Also
> noticed a crack in the paint on the fairing just above the accessory
outlet
> so that must have been one of the spots I braced against it. Other than
> that there was no other damage. I guess I was pretty lucky......
>
> Made it home around 5:00 am - without any further incidents.....
>
> Phew
>
> - Eric
>
>
>
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