I feel I need to fill in the blanks in regards to the weekend's festivities. If we didn't mention earlier, Ben Walters from the Army of Darkness endurance riding team set up shop right next to us on Sunday. He was prepping and tuning his bike for an upcoming race. --EXTREME comment REMOVED!!! -- Anyway, if you didn't know, Dennis is quite enamored with Ben. He was all over his junk like a teenage girl on a Boy Band member. It was really quite embarrassing.
So, I'm talking to Dennis on the phone last night while he's still in the hospital. He was relaying the crash experience. Now keep in mind, it might not be word for word but it's how I remembered the whole conversation. Dennis said he on his third or fourth lap of the session and had passed just about everyone, he estimates he was running about 1:29.8 lap times. As he was coming up to turn 9 at about 130 mph and had Ben in his sights, he went to downshift and caught a false neutral (I've heard that story before). When the bike caught neutral it threw the chain and locked up the rear wheel which sent him in to a high speed lowside. Being the extraordinary rider that he is, he attempted to save it. He says he jammed the front brake in an attempt to bring the locked-up rear wheel off the ground. Now, with the bike on it's front wheel, he did a complete 360 turn without falling before the bike left the pavement and went in to the grass. Keep in mind, he's now traveling at about 85 mph on the front wheel in the grass. This is when he spotted the frog, right in front of his tire! His natural insticts kicked in "Save The Frog". With a skills of a ninja, he yanked the handlebars to the left and squeezed the front brake lever instantly locking the front wheel and sending him airborne. As he was flying through the air, he saw that he had missed the frog, "Yes", he screamed. Now he had to focus his attention on landing. He thought for a moment, hmmmm, maybe I should do a face first slide like I'm going in to second base. He discarded that idea because he thought it wouldn't look very impressive to anyone witnessing this event. He decided he would do a flip and land flat on his back. He'd felt that speed hump before and thought, "Hey, that's pretty soft, I bet that will cushion my landing". He went into a tuck grabbing the back of his knees like an Olympic diver and performed an perfect flip. As he landed, he realized the speed hump was not much of an impact absorber. After impacting the ground, he states he went to sleep and started dreaming. There was a horse approaching, it was a black stallion with large muscular legs, it was snorting and rearing up. There was a knight riding it wearing a black suit of armor and carrying a long shiny sword. As the horse reared up, the knight raised his sword in the air, Dennis was extremely impressed. The knight gained control of the steed and flipped up his visor. IT WAS BEN! He reached out his hand and said "Take my hand Dennis, I'll save you". Dennis reached out to him and he was scooped up on to the back on the horse. Dennis held on to Ben firmly and they galloped off in to the sunset. The next thing he remembers is a fairly ugly EMT massaging his testicles and asking him "How does that feel". He immediately lost consciousness and didn't wake up again until he was in the ambulance.
Now I'm sure I might have missed something but Dennis will fill in once he's recovered.
Glad to hear your up. Ribs are going to hurt for awhile