After all this time, us trying to figure out what happened with Bill C. and his dance with a Road King through the tulips and cow crap, I figured out what really happened that fateful day. Bill C. met up today to do the Twin Peaks ride. He gave me a CD with the pictures he took on the ride the day he wrecked. When I got home, and between the lights popping on/off, I looked through the pictures. There was something that happened that day which it hadn't occured to me what it was, but I noticed on the day and didn't think about until now. When we all met up at Hico, I was wound up from the many weeks of bullshit in airports and dealing with the typical employment shit. I wanted to find some radical roads to take out my aggression on and see if I could thrash my CBR1100xx. Most of the riders decided to join up with me and go find the elusive twists and curves built into the roads out there. As we headed out of town, and got going, Bill passed me on the right....all the way on the right and on the shoulder. I thought "gee, that's some silly shit I'd do". I looked in my mirrors to see where everyone else was and saw something that would later be the factor causing the wreck Bill had. See, I'm pretty supersticious about my riding when I go out to thrash a bike. If I see something that goes against my riding, I get the heck away from it. I certainly don't take pictures of it. Well, with the lack of experience Bill has with riding with me, he didn't know about this. When I saw my mirrors, I sped up and tried to get away and ignore what I'd seen. Today when I got the pictures from Bill, I saw it....big as everything in some of those pictures. Here's Bill taking pictures of it and didn't know he was jinxing himself on the ride. What am I talking about? An ambulance had got behind us and followed us from Hico to Cranfills Gap. If Bill will look at the pictures, he'll see what I'm talking about. At one time, the ambulance was right up behind him and he was snapping photos of it. Me? I was hot rodding the shit out my Bird to get the heck away from it and ignore it. Bill, from now on, don't jinx yourself by being chased by an ambulance and take pictures of it..... :-)
