Scott, I am so overwhelmed with your chivalry. You allow me the honor of riding your bike with free reign to give it everything it has. I do that, goober up the shut down, take the bike down and out. Then you publicly state not only will the bike be rebuilt but not to your standards but to a higher standard you feel I seemingly deserve.
I just don't know what to say. I am so overwhelmed and honored by the faith that you and others instill in me.
I never ever wanted to wreck a bike, let alone someone else's bike, let alone the legendary Scott Guthrie's bike but in all honesty, I never could have understood or felt the magnitude or comradery, sense of family and overall love of fellow man and racer that this collective group has shown me. The number of people I know and don't know that have offered anything and everything they have to help both myself and the bike back on the mend is truely unbelievable.
Getting a record, getting in the two club, being the fastest whatever at any given point in time yeah that's something, but looking deep in the eyes of my fellow racers, the volunteers that run the track, the man that owns the bike you just wrecked while sitting on the ground where you just landed and having each and every one of them say that was a hell of a run, you scared the crap out of us, we're proud of you, don't ever do that again without a shred of anger and nothing but love and gratefulness in their eyes and hearts, that's just truly priceless!
If I never ride again this is a moment in time that will live on inside of me forever!
But don't get any funny ideas, I WILL ride again!
Deb
