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[Roy Coates]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Bubba wrote:

> it's just scary as hell the first time
> your knee hits the ground.

Try sidecar racing - its even scarier the first time your _hip_ hits the
tarmac.


> One time my wife was standing in the driveway when I came around a turn a
> few yards from my street. When I pulled in and took off my helmet she asked
> what the scraping, grinding sound of death was. I didn't even look up when I
> told her it was the left peg digging a trench in the road. She was not
> amused. I moved the pegs up that weekend. She's long since given up on
> trying to get me to ride like a normal, sane person. The way I see it, the
> heart defect that runs in my family (severe mitral valve prolapse) is going
> to either kill me or make me get a titanium valve within 10 years, so I'm
> going to go have fun while I can :)

Quite right!  Life is just too sho....