@capt that is really a million to one chance smash. I hope you are getting better quickly. Don’t worry for now about the bikes. They are replaceable - you aren’t. Sincerely hope you are able to get back in soon and keep us entertained with your travel stories. Good luck!
Bloody hell @capt That is a nasty spill to go through! Best wishes on your recovery and hope you your mate can laugh about it over a beer soon
Well the snow was melting off today from a cold front yesterday so unfortunately no riding but it's never a bad day to admire the details of a Daytona
Today, I rode my Scrambler 1200XC the 49 miles to work (as is my normal routine). It was a beautiful hi-desert pre-dawn ride this morning, but the winds have since picked-up, and it's promising to be a blustery ride home at the end of the day.
I don't know, the things people will do to get a ride in a plane / helicopter. Ask your quack for some Metoclopromide or Cyclizine to deal with the nausea. As you have fractured collar bone and ribs I recommend you read the thread "this made me laugh". All I had after breaking mine was friends telling me jokes....just to see the tears rolling down my face. Hope you mend quickly and get everything sorted. Give your wife my sympathy, she'll have a lot to put up with.
I picked up my Speed triple from the shop having had a Lust Racing 30mm lowering spacer fitted , had a nice ride for an hour and found I can finally feel confident approaching traffic lights, zebra crossings etc
Hi Mike! You can drop the front a bit to counter it and it definitely feels just as good (to me anyway!) I dropped the front 1.5cm only (possible to do more but I didn’t want to damage the rad/mudguard as i've a protector on) and all good. Enjoy!
I've decided to forgo the pain Meds as they were only damping out Life and not really doing much pain wise. The Meds were stopping my bowels from functioning properly , so only going to take Panadol as required from now on. I've been through broken ribs etc five years ago. I have a very high threshold to pain and two weeks since I broke them , they only mildly annoy me if I sneeze or cough too hard . Family will be visiting shortly , it's Saturday and a weekend of family will be just what I need !! Got Granddaughter and her husband coming along with all the daughters over the weekend ... I had the monster of all nauseous heads and stomach upset... Vomit comet had nothing on me between 5:30 and 10:45 this morning. Coffee toast and all better now at 11:00 am. Still no news from the insurance company, did my riding gear quote $2064.00 and it's not all top notch gear ! Helmet and jacket alone = half of the quote. cheers capt
Today, to my Triumph, I decided to put on some differenter mudguards. It started the day looking like this:- It finished the day looking like this with it’s new aluminium mudguards, new tyres, new Hagon shocks and new fork stanchions... I decided early on I wasn’t going to do a full restoration, I quite like the patina, just going to slap a couple of new silencers on it and use it for bimbling about the Peaks. I’ve kept the bits I’ve removed and not taken an angle-grinder or hacksaw to any of it, in case I do decide to restore it.
The shop dropped the front by 12 mm .....seems fine ( to me) , Looking forward to warmer weather and some long rides out now
When I was prescribed Percoset after my first surgery and then Vicaden after the second one, a friend recommended Colase for that "bowel functions properly" thing and it worked quite well. That said, I took as little of the two "big guns" as I could stomach....just 3 Percocet and 2 Vicodin. But the Colase did (and does) come in handy on occasion.
