Methven 'Mountain Thunder' street race, 3 April 2010

[GaZBur]

Hi all especially those that enquired how I was. I have been home a week and on road to hopefully full recovery.
Thanks CAMS for a great day, pity I can only remember a bit of it. Aparently I was having a good day riding FZR1000 #73 in the pre 89 class and the DR650 #117 in the SuperMotard.
I am told I started 8th on grid of pre 89 and finished 2nd. Lot slower on the DR and was being lapped when there was some sort of incident and I went into a haybale. Severly broke both wrists and cracked both the Occipital lobe of skull and C1 vertibrae so am pleased to be still around. Have had 5 operations on wrists and they did an amazing job although I am held together by titanium pieces. I hope to get back to racing but will be late in year at earliest but depends on what doctors say about my neck. I owe thanks to heaps of people and have done so personally but can't remember a lot about the first few days so if I missed you its not a deliberate snub. Will see you at the track sooner or later as I will return even just as support for a start.
Cheers guys, catch up to you all soon.
Gary B

[helenoftroy]

GaZBur so good to hear from you!

That was a nasty crash and you take care,hope the recovery all goes OK.

Look forward to seeing you again.....

[SWERVE]

hope it all heals properly gaz,
makes my off seem pretty trivial................

[cold comfort]

Hi all especially those that enquired how I was. I have been home a week and on road to hopefully full recovery...

Hey there. great to hear you are on the mend, and capable of typing! All the best for the healing process -hopefully see you at some events soon.

[lazyrider]

Hi sounds like a nasty accident, I have been away from racing a little over a year due to an accident .
so good luck with the recovery, Are you keeping yourself busy? some days are mind blowing with nothing to do.......... Make sure you get your friends to run around after you.

[GaZBur]

I am keeping busy. Doing a bit of reading and have exercises to do. I had planned on continuing my surf lessons I just started the week before the accident as I try to graduate from body boards to full size surf boards but that will have to wait too. Think I will try fishing soon as my hands are capable and have been meaning to upgrade my programming skills as I may be involved in teaching a development paper using Java soon. Will put that off as long as possible though as I am not an enthusiastic programmer and dare I say prefer .NET environment. Hate being unable to drive for 2 months though. Not expecting to be too bored as I will find stuff to do. Thanks for well wishes all, I am doing well!

[ellipsis]

Good to hear that things are improving Gary, was wondering just yesterday how you were getting on.Thanks for the update on your condition. A relief to find you are on the way up...and thinking about future rides ....dunno about this surfing lark tho, sounds dangerous to me...all those submarines and sharks and fish, all pissing in the water...

[funnygirl]

hello Gary Amanda here sorry to hear you had an accident. we will have to catch up soon
poor baby

[hotchick2]

Hi Gaz, hope you are recovery well , you must be pleased you got rid of the big fat bitch , people like that are disgusting. i see you at work when you get back i work in the shop

[Buddha#81:Me]

I am keeping busy. Doing a bit of reading and have exercises to do. I had planned on continuing my surf lessons I just started the week before the accident as I try to graduate from body boards to full size surf boards but that will have to wait too. Think I will try fishing soon as my hands are capable and have been meaning to upgrade my programming skills as I may be involved in teaching a development paper using Java soon. Will put that off as long as possible though as I am not an enthusiastic programmer and dare I say prefer .NET environment. Hate being unable to drive for 2 months though. Not expecting to be too bored as I will find stuff to do. Thanks for well wishes all, I am doing well!

On ya gaz....2 months without driving....how long does someone gotta wipe ya arse? hehehehe

[hotchick2]

oh he has plenty of people to wripe his arse, and not just his wife