Sitting on Dickson street, lots of old Evo's out tonight.

 

Sorry to hear about the Lotus, Doc. Were u or Dr. Linda injured? What about the car, fixable? You buy it back??
3 wrecks, damn! Medivac'd a rider yesterday at 6pm about 13 miles west of Boston. Closed t.pike both lanes for the chopper... be safe out there!

Tom

 

Yeah, I got banged up. I slowed down for debris in the road and a dumb **** in a Jeep plowed into me from behind. Said he was "sleepy." I got 9 staples in my head, sore back, neck and a pretty badly sprained thumb. The Lotus is totaled. I'm fighting with his insurance company as they want to low ball me on the value. It is fixable. The frame wasn't damaged, just everything hanging off the back. I'm thinking about giving up on modern Lotus and fixing up my old ****. My friend who I've ridden many miles over the decades with says I should stick to Harleys. He may be right. My wife says I should buy a Hummer H1 or a M1 Abrams. She's probably right too.

 

Wow, looks fairly plasticky fix wise. I had zero doubt you were gonna buy it back from them. Lawyer up and see if you can't just get what you want for her. I owned an old Porsche 911. It was fun and like our bikes it was air cooled. I think they made that radiator less car until '89.

Glad to hear you made it out with some bumps and bruises and not to much worse.

 

Glad ya weren't on 2 wheels in front of that sleepy dumb ***!

 

If that's the jeep that hit you in the pic, my vote is for TEXTING not "sleepy".... what an a hole......

 

Yeah, that's the jeep. 21 year old kid. I suspect "texting" as well but he told the cop "sleepy."

 

That's not going to be a cheap fix. I hope you heal up quick. I have a few friends at the BBB. I'll have to keep this one in the memory books.

 

Well, I'm calling it a good rally. Went to Arvest Stadium and looked at the bike and car show. There was a basically stock 86 FLHT in the antique bike show. I thought "Maybe I should have just parked over here." Then to Baum Stadium (or whatever it's renamed to now.) HD and the other bike makers had some displays. Haven't hit Dickson street. Think I'll pass on it this year. Lots of bikes out on the roads. Bikes everywhere. I wouldn't call it the biggest ever BBB, but it was good. A few years ago, I could hear the roar of the Harleys inside my house, and I'm 8-10 miles through the woods from Dickson St. Don't have that this year. Given the depression we are in, it will take a while to build up to that again.