Fabio will bite his ankles Monty Python style. *Nabil Kabbani * https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabilkabbani <https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/settings?trk=prof-edit-edit-public_profile> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmittal is a confidential communication, may be protected by NDA or may otherwise be privileged. If you are not intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this transmittal is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify this office, and immediately delete this message and all its attachments, if any. On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:34 AM Vicki Smith <Vicki@ducati.net> wrote: > Of course he might race. It’s ridiculous, but he really is the Monty > Python Black Knight. Tis but a scratch... > Vicki > > > > On Jul 22, 2020, at 12:24 PM, Tony Pagliaroli <ajpags@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >  > https://www.motorsport.com/motogp/news/injured-marquez-not-ruling-out-jerez-return/4841965/ > > > > > > > > > > To get the links and updates on all today's Ducati news: > > http://www.ductalk.com/ > > and > > https://www.facebook.com/ducnet > > _____________________ > > Ducati mailing list > > Ducati@list.ducati.net > > http://list.ducati.net/mailman/listinfo/ducati_list.ducati.net > > Mailto: vicki@ducati.net > > > > > > To get the links and updates on all today's Ducati news: > http://www.ductalk.com/ > and > https://www.facebook.com/ducnet > _____________________ > Ducati mailing list > Ducati@list.ducati.net > http://list.ducati.net/mailman/listinfo/ducati_list.ducati.net > Mailto: nkabbani@gmail.com >

Fabio is the the Killer Rabbit. (Remember how the knights always underestimated the bunny?) Vicki > On Jul 22, 2020, at 7:21 PM, nabil kabbani <nkabbani@gmail.com> wrote: > > Fabio will bite his ankles Monty Python style. > > > > *Nabil Kabbani * > > https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabilkabbani > <https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/settings?trk=prof-edit-edit-public_profile> > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmittal is a confidential communication, > may be protected by NDA or may otherwise be privileged. If you are not > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this > transmittal in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or > copying of this transmittal is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this communication in error, please notify this office, and immediately > delete this message and all its attachments, if any. > > > >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:34 AM Vicki Smith <Vicki@ducati.net> wrote: >> >> Of course he might race. It’s ridiculous, but he really is the Monty >> Python Black Knight. Tis but a scratch... >> Vicki >> >> >>>> On Jul 22, 2020, at 12:24 PM, Tony Pagliaroli <ajpags@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>  >> https://www.motorsport.com/motogp/news/injured-marquez-not-ruling-out-jerez-return/4841965/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> To get the links and updates on all today's Ducati news: >>> http://www.ductalk.com/ >>> and >>> https://www.facebook.com/ducnet >>> _____________________ >>> Ducati mailing list >>> Ducati@list.ducati.net >>> http://list.ducati.net/mailman/listinfo/ducati_list.ducati.net >>> Mailto: vicki@ducati.net >> >> >> >> >> >> To get the links and updates on all today's Ducati news: >> http://www.ductalk.com/ >> and >> https://www.facebook.com/ducnet >> _____________________ >> Ducati mailing list >> Ducati@list.ducati.net >> http://list.ducati.net/mailman/listinfo/ducati_list.ducati.net >> Mailto: nkabbani@gmail.com >> > > > > > To get the links and updates on all today's Ducati news: > http://www.ductalk.com/ > and > https://www.facebook.com/ducnet > _____________________ > Ducati mailing list > Ducati@list.ducati.net > http://list.ducati.net/mailman/listinfo/ducati_list.ducati.net > Mailto: vicki@ducati.net

Similar story. My RD400 seizes during a morning track day session at the Oak Hill Racetrack in Henderson, Texas, causing me to go over the handlebars and do a three point landing, breaking my left wrist on impact. My friend Chris (R.I.P.), in whose Datsun pick-up truck we have driven the 250 miles from Austin, tells me he's paid for the entire day and I can either be taken to the hospital in Henderson (not recommended) or wait until he's ready to go home. Around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, he calls it quits and we load up and head back, stopping at every convenience store on the way to add fresh ice to the chest in which I've been keeping my hand and swollen wrist. At my house he did unload my bike and gear into my garage before he headed home. Fortunately for me, nighttime traffic was light and the Seton ER was less than 3 miles from my house, but driving my '90 300ZX there and parking it weren't the easiest things to do. What I remember most about my time in the ER was having to listen to some guy bitch about having cut his hand while slicing a bagel and the pain he was in. Talk about a whiner. The wrist was surgically repaired the next day and an external fixator screwed into one of the bones in my lower arm, but even now, on a quiet night, I can hear the wrist crack and pop when I turn or twist it. If Crutchfield or MM are even thinking they'll be ready to race in a week or two, I tip my Arai to them both. jD On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:59 PM Tony Pags <ajpags@gmail.com> wrote: > Can of worms=OPENED > > STeve is being modest. Screw the work situation, let me tell you the real > story. > > We're racing minis in a 4 hour endurance race. Steve gets taken out by a > wanker, and busts said collarbone. He's sitting in the ambulance, they > know it's broken, he knows it's broken, but hell no, he ain't going to the > Millville NJ hospital. So this sick son of a bitch convinces them to let > him out of the ambulance, and he comes back to the pits, clearly in pain. > Downs like 6 advil, a bottle of gatorade and asks us to help him pack up > his van. > > So we do - and this crazy ass bald mofo decides he's going to drive the 3.5 > hours BACK home in northern NJ to go to HIS hospital for xrays etc. BUT, > as we're loading him into his van with all his stuff, he opts to stop to > break out a bratwurst he was saving for lunch - with some mustard of course > - for the ride. > > THEN he figures out he can only drive with one of his arms, so he's got a > conundrum, being the brat is large and messy. So, he alternates between > driving with his knees, taking bites, chewing the brat while holding the > remainder in his lips so he can course correct with his good arm. > > I mean, it wasn't exactly a good time, but it's an epic memory and a great > story etched in my memory forever. > Pags > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:33 PM Stephen Abramson <desmo900cr@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I know a thing or two about working through pain, such as breaking my > > collarbone and a few ribs in a racing crash and carrying on pretty much > the > > next day with work as a building contractor with an arm in a sling, but > if > > MM can finish the race, IF he even participated, then my hat’s off to > him. > > > > > > > > > > > To get the links and updates on all today's Ducati news: > http://www.ductalk.com/ > and > https://www.facebook.com/ducnet > _____________________ > Ducati mailing list > Ducati@list.ducati.net > http://list.ducati.net/mailman/listinfo/ducati_list.ducati.net > Mailto: jdavis7600@gmail.com >

I broke my humerus back in 1985 when I target fixated on the outside of a corner on my VF500 Interceptor. When I tried to get out of the gully I was lying in, I tried to raise my left arm to grab a reed to pull myself up. Only my upper arm moved while the rest just laid there on the ground. I thought I severed it. But I looked down at my jacket and the sleeve was still intact so I assumed my arm was still in one piece. I had to reach over with my right hand to pick up my left hand off the ground. I didn't have surgery, they just snapped the two bones back together and put an immobilizing brace on it. It still felt like a wet noodle. I had to sleep sitting up. About a month later I foolishly tried to carry a small bag of groceries with that arm and the pain dropped me to my knees. I understand Marc has the best doctors and his arm is plated and screwed while I had neither of those but good God...how he can even contemplate racing this weekend is insane. I had a huge accident back in '98 in which I broke (shattered to smithereens is the more apt description) my left wrist, left scapula, two left ribs, right ankle, right thumb and forefinger, and had to get nine stitches over my left eye. I thought I was done riding and indeed I didn't ride for two years. But the pull was too strong and of course I was back on my bikes. Some of you may also remember that I had a crash in 2012 in which I broke my collarbone and I came on this forum and declared that I was done riding. Hearing my kids ask my wife "is Daddy going to die?" was too much for me to take at the time. I really did think I was done that time. Maybe I'm stupid, naïve, or willfully stubborn, but if that last one in 2012 didn't keep me off bikes, I don't know what will. Anyway, the three most painful moments in my life were; a bone marrow biopsy of my hip back in the mid '80s, when they set my wrist after the '98 accident, and laying on the ground with that broken collarbone. I was flabbergasted when JL99 broke his collarbone and raced 3 days later. Completely out of the realm of possibility. But now...if MM93 races, or even rides a lap, this weekend, that will surpass my astonishment at JL99's feat. I hope Marc, Cal, and Alex get fit as soon as possible but I also hope they don't come back before they can absolutely compete with no danger to themselves or their fellow competitors. Anymore than usual that is. Mario ________________________________ From: Ducati <ducati-bounces@list.ducati.net> on behalf of j davis <jdavis7600@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 8:28 PM To: Ducati Owners Group <ducati@list.ducati.net> Subject: Re: [Ducati] Holy shit Similar story. My RD400 seizes during a morning track day session at the Oak Hill Racetrack in Henderson, Texas, causing me to go over the handlebars and do a three point landing, breaking my left wrist on impact. My friend Chris (R.I.P.), in whose Datsun pick-up truck we have driven the 250 miles from Austin, tells me he's paid for the entire day and I can either be taken to the hospital in Henderson (not recommended) or wait until he's ready to go home. Around 3 or 4 in the afternoon, he calls it quits and we load up and head back, stopping at every convenience store on the way to add fresh ice to the chest in which I've been keeping my hand and swollen wrist. At my house he did unload my bike and gear into my garage before he headed home. Fortunately for me, nighttime traffic was light and the Seton ER was less than 3 miles from my house, but driving my '90 300ZX there and parking it weren't the easiest things to do. What I remember most about my time in the ER was having to listen to some guy bitch about having cut his hand while slicing a bagel and the pain he was in. Talk about a whiner. The wrist was surgically repaired the next day and an external fixator screwed into one of the bones in my lower arm, but even now, on a quiet night, I can hear the wrist crack and pop when I turn or twist it. If Crutchfield or MM are even thinking they'll be ready to race in a week or two, I tip my Arai to them both. jD On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:59 PM Tony Pags <ajpags@gmail.com> wrote: > Can of worms=OPENED > > STeve is being modest. Screw the work situation, let me tell you the real > story. > > We're racing minis in a 4 hour endurance race. Steve gets taken out by a > wanker, and busts said collarbone. He's sitting in the ambulance, they > know it's broken, he knows it's broken, but hell no, he ain't going to the > Millville NJ hospital. So this sick son of a bitch convinces them to let > him out of the ambulance, and he comes back to the pits, clearly in pain. > Downs like 6 advil, a bottle of gatorade and asks us to help him pack up > his van. > > So we do - and this crazy ass bald mofo decides he's going to drive the 3.5 > hours BACK home in northern NJ to go to HIS hospital for xrays etc. BUT, > as we're loading him into his van with all his stuff, he opts to stop to > break out a bratwurst he was saving for lunch - with some mustard of course > - for the ride. > > THEN he figures out he can only drive with one of his arms, so he's got a > conundrum, being the brat is large and messy. So, he alternates between > driving with his knees, taking bites, chewing the brat while holding the > remainder in his lips so he can course correct with his good arm. > > I mean, it wasn't exactly a good time, but it's an epic memory and a great > story etched in my memory forever. > Pags > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:33 PM Stephen Abramson <desmo900cr@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I know a thing or two about working through pain, such as breaking my > > collarbone and a few ribs in a racing crash and carrying on pretty much > the > > next day with work as a building contractor with an arm in a sling, but > if > > MM can finish the race, IF he even participated, then my hat’s off to > him. > > > > > > > > > > > To get the links and updates on all today's Ducati news: > http://www.ductalk.com/ > and > https://www.facebook.com/ducnet > _____________________ > Ducati mailing list > Ducati@list.ducati.net > http://list.ducati.net/mailman/listinfo/ducati_list.ducati.net > Mailto: jdavis7600@gmail.com > To get the links and updates on all today's Ducati news: http://www.ductalk.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/ducnet _____________________ Ducati mailing list Ducati@list.ducati.net http://list.ducati.net/mailman/listinfo/ducati_list.ducati.net Mailto: mariobaroz@hotmail.com