TMBill injured at Connondale!!

[Hoony]

Good on Ya Bill, wishing you a speedy recovery and a hope you can get back to riding in the very near future.

[suzuki43]

Good to hear you made it back ok Ira.I shall be in touch.
Cheers Liz

[maicopunk]

Hey Bill,  good to hear you are back home in (sort of) one piece. I hope the break is not too bad and heals quickly.

It was great to meet you and DJ and John on Friday night when you were preparing your Corn Flake sandwiches for dinner....  yummmm. In fact, I'm not sure what happened on Friday night but Saturday was a total write-off for me.

Cheers, Tim

[DJRacing]

TM Bill enjoying a cigar

Me in the ambo wondering which way to go??



On the way back to Brisbane Airport, and a police escort for TM Bill



I didnt realise you wanted him out of the country that bad, but it was cool having a police escort 

[firko]

We'll have a little drink in honour of Bill at the Klub Kevlar half yearly soiree on Saturday evening. I hope he's back and at 'em sooner than later. I'm sure the lovely Valeria will smother him with lots of good Italian food to help ease the pain.

DJ..Did you get the DVDs? Oh, and thanks for the giant Hindall Tshirt boys. Nice thought.

[DJRacing]

Firko, yes I walked in tonight and there it was, thanks so much, it is one very cool dvd and I havnt been through the pictures yet but cant wait.
The T shirts were to take the piss out of Magoo but we couldnt let you get away scott free.   

[AjayVMX]

TM Bill enjoying a cigar

That must be one of the best Sherbert fountains ever produced, judging by the look in his eyes....

Bill Oddie would have been envious.

[pmc57]

TM
Just a quick one Bill, hope you get well / heal quickly. These broken parts are sure ment to try us and usually throw everything in a spin for a while. All I remember was coming around that right hander, dust everywhere, visibility shit, over the small drop-off and there was this fallen rider further down the hill. What the heck, around him we / most go, it was not till we all arrived back to the same spot after the first lap that we realised the seriousness of the off. Did you get the number of who took you out??
 
Anyway, it was good to have a chat on the Saturday arvo at our camp spot, you may remember us, Ed and I were up near the amenities block with his RM125S and 125C and my RM250B.
Peter (pmc57)
   

[TM BILL]

Gidday all  thought i better give an update on the Poms progress
Thanks to all who have sent PMs and emails , its only been three and a half weeks and it seems like a bloody lifetime
I still feel a bit embarressed about the whole thing  still dont know what happened  maybe it was Nogouchi pay back time

Went to the cattle shed (they laughingly call a hospital here) yesterday for a check up and was told im in this cast up to my clangers for another month
If after another month theres no sign of mending then they will probably operate , WTF dont you operate now then 

well thats the public health service for you , i should have let them operate at Nambour . The difference between the way i was treated there and here was night and day.

Its probably different if you live there but from what i saw you guys have a great medical system

Enough of the negatives  im at work for a few hours a day driving a desk and using up my limited people skills to deal with the punters
I haven 't even really looked at my bikes since i got back but i will get the boys to build me a bench so i can work on them sitting down.
DJs masters of MX was by all accounts a great event , i wasn't able to get down to it but DJ showed me the track the following week and man that was a great venue.

Our Kiwi VMX series starts next weekend , RD 1 is back where the masters was and the series runs through till April.
I am aiming to get back on my bike for Rd 3 in febuary , but some of the blokes are picking me up to take me to the first couple of rounds 
Connondale was a great event  i loved the track and the format worked well , i was sorry to miss the novelty races 
It was great to meet so many of you in person over a beer or too
DJ and i are keen to come back to do CD 6 and the nationals ( if the club will let me back ) and John is i believe building a Pre 78 125 weapon for the nats.

Brad is planning a trip over here in November  hopefully he will get to race a vintage meet and a modern meeting while here  It will give us chance to return some of the great hospitality Brad and his family have shown us
Well thats about all for now , thanks again to all who made our Connondale trip a memorable one cant wait to do it again 

Bill

 

[Wombat]

Glad to see you're on the mend Bill!
Funny you praise our medical system; over the last week or so our media have done several stories on the overcrowding/lack of beds etc.
Front pages of our Queensland papers were dedicated to photos of patients waiting in Hospital corridors etc.
Then the TV Reporters got onto it and beat it to death.
It then became apparent the Government had included 'home bound' patients beds in the overall tally of medical beds in Queensland!
I'm not sure what to think - you know what the media is like when they get on a roll.

But at least they looked after you! Must be that charm ay?

By the way, I have a few photos of you at the crash scene when the Ambos were cutting and you were talking land rights and singing etc.
I'll send to you - I have your business card from CD5; I'll assume the e-mail remains the same?

[TM BILL]

Thanks Graeme email is still [email protected]
Yep i cant speak highly enough of my treatment over there  the ambulance driver seemed strangley familier though 

[DJRacing]

I think I know the ambo driver, he was last seen running down the road with a bottle of Nitrous Oxide..... dont know whether it was for him or bolting it to a bike       

[magoo]

Glad to hear your sense of humour is in tact old mate. I saw the ambulance driver and I'll tell you what, broken leg or not, I would've walked. Onya boys.