Are scab and EvilMedic just a couple of *******

[Kevin Daly]

My collision with a forest-rat hasn't affected my desire to ride at all, but my disdain for the stupid critters has increased tenfold. I even growl at the signs indicating their presence, and have been know to make pistol-shooting gestures with my hands when passing them. My collision resulted in a broken ankle but that didn't stop me from doing a little riding with the cast on.

LDR, I love that dead deer icon. I really think we need to push for a new industry selling deer meat! the cattle and poltry lobbies will never go for it but its worth a try.

 

[rockwells]

Woundn't necerssarly consider myself, or anyone else here, a sissy. This falls into the general catigory(?) of "ride your own ride". My crash was about six weeks ago. With my seven broke ribs and a punctured lung, I rode about 20 miles or so before I couldn't handle the pain anymore. Coundn't satnd to even look at my bikes for about a week or so. Just took my Road King and my Beemer out this weekend for about a 60 mile loop each, felt real good. The FJR looks ok to me, but I'm still waiting to get her looked over good by my local wrenchbender. Bottom line is, don't push it, but get back on! If you can't after a reasonable ammount of time, mabee you didn't belong there in the first place.

 

[TNT]

Oct. 2003 a deer committed suicide on the front of my Valkyrie. Totaled the bike, broke my left leg bad enough to require surgery. I had a replacement bike within a month and 3 months to the day I was back riding my ZRX. I was riding my horses 2 weeks before that, the Dr. never told me not to, but I don't think he knew I had horses. I was pretty apprehensive the first few rides, and I hate people with fake deer in their yards!

 

[Auburn]

But I will admit my ride is affected. I feel like Steve Martin in that famous movie scene, trying to get the rhythm...

No puss at all, just a thoughful reflective rider IMHO.

Fortunately all of my crashes have been on the race track on a bike prepped for road racing. And after each one, I reflected on the crash to try and figure out why it happened. Was I going too fast for the set up or conditions, or was there something beyond my control that happened, like a mechanical failure from another bike that oils the track?

I found it takes longer for me to get back up to speed if I don't understand why the crash happened. Glad to hear you are riding again.

 

[twowheelnut]

No puss at all, just a thoughful reflective rider IMHO.

See Scabby? I told you not to play around that nuke plant... Now, you're reflective!

 

[Scab]

Ha! It's funny, we've had a joke for years that I "glow in the dark."

 

[Kevin Daly]

Oh, nearly forgot; Kevin Daly, you're off the Christmas card list.

Oh man! cant a guy make fun of the severely crippled whiout being shunned anymore. What has the world come to?

 

[Kevin Daly]

I have accumulated 4500 miles on the bike since. But I will admit my ride is affected. I feel like Steve Martin in that famous movie scene, trying to get the rhythm...
I'm working on it. It ain't over till they cover me with dirt.

See this prooves it, your not a puss! am I back on the xmas list

 

[Scab]

Oh, you're on the list alright.

 

[Kevin Daly]

I found it takes longer for me to get back up to speed if I don't understand why the crash happened. Glad to hear you are riding again.

that is a sound observation!

Oh, you're on the list alright.

Oh no, your not going to send me a Mac or anything

 

[clsonfjr]

Getting right back on can be fatal mistake. When I was T-boned on my '04 I was on my feet immediately, ready to attack the guy that hit, but 4 cops witnessed it, and they were there before I got to him. The paramedics checked me over, let me pass on the ride to the hospital, but told my wife to watch me closely. 2 hours later I passed out (low blood pressure from massive internal bleeding). If I'd been on the bike then, I'd have gone down again, probably to never get up again.

But waiting for the right time can be nearly as bad. I bought my '05 with the insurance payout. I didn't know a single person that understood why I wanted another bike, but I knew if I let them talk me into waiting, eventually they'd talk me out of getting one altogether. So I pushed right from day 1. The accident was in mid-August, and I didn't get my cheque until mid-October, so I basically rode until my 600 km service, then had to store it for the winter. So I didn't REALLY get back on for 8 months after my accident.

This wasn't my first get-off. I've riden dirt bikes all my life, even tried trials riding. And I've raced bicycles (road racing, triathlon, and mountain biking). I've been bucked off hundreds of times, but almost all of them, and all of the serious ones, can be attributed to: another driver/rider doing something unexpected/stupid; loose gravel, sand, or ice in a corner, or; hidden danger (blind curves, over the crest of a hill, bambi in the ditch, etc). And even now, after 2 seasons, almost 40,000 kms without a scratch on the bike or me, and several advanced riding clinics, if any one of those 3 pops up I instantly go into newbie mode (as hard as I try not to). Something tells me I may never get over it. So I compensate. I avoid groups with more than a couple of riders I don't know, or I leave hundreds of feet between myself and the rider I'm following. I never intentionally outrun my sight line, and I take corners with scattered debri at a sedate pace.

Maybe that makes me a puss, maybe it doesn't, but I'm still riding (and still having fun) and that's really all that matters to me.

Chris

p.s. I've read the advice "ride your own ride" hundreds of times in this forum, and that applies in spades here. Only you know when it's right for you to get back on.

 

[gr8eyes]

Scab the reason you glow in the dark is the neon green condom.

 

[Scab]

Well, hell. I didn't know you were gonna tell.

 

[gr8eyes]

LOL

 

[FJRMGM]

Depends - would you supply a better definition of "pussie"?

 

[Kevin Daly]

Depends - would you supply a better definition of "pussie"?

How about chicken **** or wimp. meant to be an insult to ones manhood. Tell me you havent heard the term pussie or ***** (i can spell it several ways of course) in this context?

 

[Scab]

Dayum. And all this time I was thinking this was a rhetorical question.