it was a very strange event to say teh least. i saw teh bikes when we went past and didn't really think anythign of it, beautiful day and country roads and all.
we were doing about 40-45ish(40 zone) cause i know that is an area that the cops are always sitting. after we pasted teh bikers i heard teh rev's come up hard and a launch adn a huge cracking thud kinda noise, it was so loud tht it was clear as day in our car about 40 yards in front of will.
as i looked up in the rear view will was collecting teh car and the rider bounced into the middle fo the street, i mean middle, like laying face down on the yellow line. bike bounced a few times adn landed on its side proly 15 yards down teh hill from where they made contact.
i got kelly's car stopped and bailed up the hill as fast as i could(which ain't much, but the others seemed impressed
). will and i immediately went over to the guy to make sure he was ok. will was up and running with me so i figured he was all right.
he was shakin up, but obviously nothign life threatening.
this all does suck, but we all noticed a lot fo lucky little breaks that prevented this being much worse. we were in a large break in traffic, the rider had time to get up and over to teh side of the road before any car went by in either direction, which is very unusual on rt31 in the middle of the day. also, we had originally planeed to have at least 5 more cars with us for the trip, had another vehicle been behind will things certainly could have been much worse.
freak thing, but everyone will be fine. cars/bikes are replaceable even if we don't like to think about it.
later
tim