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Off-topic Climbers who ride version 2; MOTORcycles 14-Sep-2009 At 10:49:00 PM mockmockmock

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Our Saturday turned out to be one of those days. Initial plan - forecast 25C - plan lets go for a ride. That got delayed, when husband said I need to go into work for a while. That "while" got longer and longer" ride abandoned. He eventually arrived home at 5.15pm. He had promised to take me out to dinner to make up for his absence. I looked at him and he was so tired so we "planned" Thai takeaway and a movie. He said to me "I don't have any money on me". So we walked to the ATM and on the way back I suggested a cleansing ale outside our favourite restaurant just around the corner from home.

We sat enjoying the balmy conditions, the cold beer and just watching the people in the park opposite and relaxing. Then a bike went past and husband sat upright "bloody idiot
he has lost his girlie"! "What" I said. I turned to see a little figure scrabbling around on the road. I ran and got to her just as she made it to the median strip.

She looked up at me through the visor with hurt, surprised eyes. She took off her helmet and I gasped, it was one of our neighbours. Her husband arrived and I just looked at him
and said "What did you do?"

In a very short amount of time she went into shock and was gasping with pain, her jeans were shredded and her knees were a bloody mess and her hip badly grazed where her jacket
and ridden up. The ambulance was called and I got some ice for her to suck on as she was so thirsty. I sat holding her hand for what seemed like forever, her husband stood sweating, he had hurt his wife and the mother of his children - it was all a bit much and from what they both said and what my husband had seen he was not being irresponsible - she just fell of the back! After she was assessed they took her to hospital.

We pushed his bike home to our place and took their gear with us. They took her to hospital and last I heard she was going to have an operation to clean up her knees.

I guess if there are morals to this story - it would be always expected the unexpected, never relax because you are near home and please ATGATT her knees just looked awful!
They were only doing 40km/hr.

Thank you all for your wishes, I will certainly pass them on. She had a hot date with a plastic surgeon this morning - skin grafts. I knew she was cut up pretty badly (cos I was
in the ambulance with her when they were pouring saline over her jeans to cut them away and when asked by the ambo's rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst she said 8 and this was from a young women who has had 2 children!

Thank heaven she had gloves on, her hands were unmarked and her Dainese jacket certainly kept her top half to her hips from being grazed.

Take care out there.

Funny you should say that whilst all this was going on, two other friends turned up for a drink at the same place, saw my husband emerge from behind the ambulance carrying two
helmets and thought it was me! My husband swiftly allayed their fears.

Our neighbour just turned up to take his bike home, the surgery apparently included shaving off some of her knee cap - which makes me feel slightly unwell just thinking about
it. He said she admits, it was most probably her fault, she was only hanging on with one hand and not tightly enough. She will be in hospital for several days on antibiotics to
stop infection. He admits that in future it will be ATGATT they have learnt their lesson the hard way. But it was just out for a ride on our first warm day (incidentall it was
our hottest September day on record it was still 29.5C at 8.30pm), just a quick coffee, home and out to dinner for her birthday. What was the harm in wearing jeans.

I think that is all for now.