Skooterg is OK!

[Ignacio]

You know......one of us friends to Skooter should take charge....push that bike down the street....and put a bullet through the gas tank.

She's just suffering needlessly at his hands. She's been a good bike, but she's in serious pain.

Then go back and tell Skooter that the bike ran away, but is frolicking on a racetrack on a Japanese farm.

 

[Warchild]

I see my discussions with Sir Crashalot this past weekend after he arrived at the Marriott did a lot of good..... <_<

Dunno what to do with with the Skoot-Man sometimes.....

 

[beemerdons]

Mis Hermanos Ignacio y Warchild: "SkooterG: If nothing else you are needed for comic relief! - Chester." Mr. Montoya and I really try hard to concentrate on those words from our friend Chester. Otherwise, we'd strangle his miserable carcass!

 

[beemerdons]

I'm sitting in my office here in Phoenix, banging my head against my desk! Just received a phone call from GregM and he's fueling up in Flagstaff getting ready to head South to Scottsdale. No, cords are no longer showing. Yes, the steel belts are!

 

[Ignacio]

No, cords are no longer showing. Yes, the steel belts are!

Maybe the bullet I refer to will miss the gas tank entirely and fix the underlying problem. :dribble:

 

[SkooterG]

Pfffft!!!!!

My old ******** friend beemerdons has a flair for the dramatic. I'm back, safe and sound. Tires aren't THAT bad. Hell Warchild's recent forays have been much worse.

Gotta go pick up the mutt from the doggie hotel, so I'll post more later...............

 

[beemerdons]

Glad that you are back home safe and sound, mi amigo! Just got off the phone with you 30 minutes ago. Go get your dog!

Now, to correct any false impressions of SkooterG: He does not own a toy French Poodle like Nicole Ritchie or a teeny-weeny Chihuahua like Paris Hilton. His dog is a nice Cocker Spaniel that is a great watchdog. Skoot and I were working in his garage on my FJR one morning and the Cocker went on point and started barking, and charging like mad at something on the driveway. Sure enough, a 6' rattlesnake was slithering straight towards us seated on our buckets wrenching on the FJR.

Don't know what we were doing to piss off Mr. D'back, but he badly wanted to bite us. GregM did the matador number with his garden rake and pitched him into the neighbor's yard. I wanted to cap him with my Beretta 9mm I keep in my trunk.

Greg lives in a swanky hood in tony Scottsdale, I live in El Barrio Chandler with mi vato loco homeboys'. Pistoles es bueno!

 

[fjrchik]

Someone needs to take a pic of Skoot on the bike with the PHIDs turned on! That's the funniest **** i've ever seen on a feejer! (they work, but they got bent around during the crash, so now they light him up)

 

[Groo]

Having had a ringside seat for the whole affair (Skoot was 30 ft in front of me when he Biff'd it coming down from Independence Pass), and watching him send that text message while we were eating lunch at the Golden Burro in Leadville, knowing full well that we'd pull into Golden and people would come up and tell us they heard he was dead, I absolutely knew a thread like this would come into existence. By the way, I've got the pics of Flipper at the crime scene, and the 40 foot ****** G left on the road as a momento to his attempt to fly through Colorado... will post some here later.

 

[FJRocha]

Holy crap Greg, are you going for a record? :blink: Be careful out there man!

 

[Silent]

We're gonna have to slip some Viagra into his gas tank so he can keep it up

Since no one has posted up yet with a pic

 

[beemerdons]

Wowser, I think Warchild is right! Whore does look better than when he left "Valley of the Blast Furnace" a week ago today.

El Pendejo: I really like your industrial fasteners you used reattaching the windshield. Were they out of 3/8" black lag bolts?

Nice to visually examine what fjrchik was talking about. Talk about seeing a dumb deer in the headlights. That'd be Skoot!!!

Thanks for the photo, Silent! Good One: About Sir Crashalot needing Viagra in his tank. I think "DA" needs training wheels!

 

[beemerdons]

Holy crap Greg, are you going for a record? :blink: Be careful out there man!

Saludos Frank! Que paso amigo? How's Florida treating you? Sure miss riding with you. I'll have to visit Florida someday!

Do you have any time off for riding in October? A bunch of the gang you used to ride with here in Arizona are riding to the Mexican State of Jalisco 10/10-10/20 of 2008. Stopping at San Carlos, Alamos, Mazatlan and Tapalpa on the way down; drinking, eating y mucho fiesta time in Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta for 2 nights in each city. Maybe SkooterG will go!!!

Recuerdos, Chuy Medina "El Burrito Ballerina" Post me at [email protected] if you can ride to Mexico con AZ FJR Forum.

 

[keithaba]

... after myself, MadMike2, TWN, Warchild, and others get done pummeling his ***.

SkooterG goes down, then gets his *** pummeled by several men. How is this different than any other weekend?

Seems like every time I crash, somebody has to go and try to outshine me! If its war you want, it's war you've got.

Lets see what happens when I put my blackbird down at 175!

LONG LIVE THE CRASH CLUB!!!!!!!!!

 

[teerex51]

How about genetically mixing Keith's ability to crash vehicles and Skooter's flair for riding on steel cords?

Stef

 

[Barabus]

That left hand slider doesn't need any viagra!!

 

[Niehart]

Some how a subject that starts with "Skooterg is OK!" just does not make sense to me. :derisive:

 

[luvtoride]

Scoot is the one w/ a spare FJR, right? So, is that the spare over 100,000 mile bike?

 

[madmike2]

And Skooter's little joke wasn't all that funny to those of us who were genuinely worried about him and ready to go rent a truck to drive down and rescue him.

In retrospect, "Cryin' Wolf" wasn't that cute.

 

[Groo]

Ok, I promised, and here are the pictures from the scene of the crime...

Setting the scene, descending from Independence pass on the East side, Skooter was leading, I was about 20 to 30 feet back. Right hand corner with a 30 MPH sign, and trees to the inside, so you couldn't see much of the road as it was approaching.

Here's a pic looking at the path the bike took once it crossed the double yellow. You can clearly see the 40 foot ****** from the rear wheel, and his bike is shown about where it came to rest. Mine is directly behind it where I pulled in. You'll also note that 30 yards to either side would have had him planting himself in a ditch.

Here's the view looking back the way we came. You may or may not be able to see it, but just off the pavement, there's a little depression and then swell in the dirt/gravel... probably helped give him the height when he and the bike went airborne.

Here, I'm standing about where he left the pavement... you can see how far the bike went in the dirt before coming to a stop, and the places in the dirt where either the bike, or Skoot rolled/tumbled.

Now for the bike. Notice the PHID pointing back at the rider... and amazingly it works! Bracket also carried a nicely compacted memento of dirt/sand/pebbles to remember the occasion... as did the turnsignal housing inside the fairing.

Here's his left slider standing at attention... Carbon fiber alternator cover did it's job... rashed but still intact. Highway peg planted in the dirt at some point, and ripped the bolts off the case though.

Nose view... fairing panels all askew... windshield bolts sheared like they were supposed to... all his electronics and dash panel made it through cleanly.

And no crash is complete without some saddlebag rashing... other side was about the same.

General consensus was a decreasing radius corner with an obstructed view... a bit too much speed once it tightened up... braking caused the bike to straighten up slightly, bringing the double yellow into proximity, along with the oncoming truck. Instantaneous decision to shoot for the open space to the left rather than become a hood ornament, lock up non-ABS brakes when dirt diving was impending... tuck and roll on the soil and see if anything is missing once you've come to a complete stop.