[elky] Re: Birthday
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:45:39 -0500
Pretty dramatic shots! Happy Birthday. Above ground and breathing is good.
Be happy about that!
JC
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/22/2011 8:18 PM, Mary McCarthy wrote:
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> no one told me.
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> HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAY!!!
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> Happy Birthday Ray! Hope you've had a great one.
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> (You share a birthday with my uncle).
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> Well, I was trying to avoid it...but apparently Facebook blabbed it and
> I've been getting BD greetings from a lotta people. Friends is good. :)
>
> Thanks...at least we didn't have the kind of day this guy did (well, I know
> I didn't):
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> Yes, that's a burning motorcycle. The rider (Jamie Williams) laid it down
> on purpose cuz he had a real hot crotch rocket. It's a turbo Hayabusa with
> NOS and it blew itself all to hell at mile 5...just as he was starting the
> timed mile. He was running around 240. I heard it go...it made all the
> wrong noises and then they stopped completely. He steered it off the
> course, slowed it down quite a bit and then just laid it down and rolled off
> it. The EVs got there very shortly afterward and had the fire out with the
> first blast from the fire bottle. Then the course workers spent the next 30
> minutes picking up pieces of block, rods, pistons, cylinder head and
> everything in between. It went in a very big way. Here's what it looked
> like just before he launched:
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> I had a long, hard day...he had a much worse one.
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> The coverage on landracing.com starts here:
> http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,10297.405.html I posted
> at least a dozen photos of the whole thing...all shot at a 35mm equivalent
> of a 640mm lens, hand held and then blown WAY up cuz I was about a mile from
> the scene.
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> Here's a video of the builder (Scott Horner) riding this bike in 2010:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djdAI3khiAA
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> You'll see a flash of one of my watermarked photos at about 12 seconds into
> it. It's ok, they paid me for 'em.
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> Again, thanks,
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> r
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