I may be getting old and slowing down...

[rhino 2]

I'm still trying to recover from hitting pavement in 2012. Just how much longer does it take than that little fact??? It's looking like I need one more surgery but I'm not sure I can recover from yet another. Isn't 8 enough?:Shrug::Shrug::Shrug:

So just imagine if you did it now....When i went down in 1975, With the help of another motorist i pick up the bike rode home 30 miles bleeding with a bone sticking out of my elbow....If that happened today 2018 i'll be in an ambulance headed for a hospital crying for more morphine....

 

[DK Custom Products]

I'm still trying to recover from hitting pavement in 2012. Just how much longer does it take than that little fact??? It's looking like I need one more surgery but I'm not sure I can recover from yet another. Isn't 8 enough?:Shrug::Shrug::Shrug:

Yeah, I hear you. Been about 8 years for me too...after only 2 surgeries (1 or 2 more still needed), truth is, I'll never be back to pre-accident condition.

So just imagine if you did it now....When i went down in 1975, With the help of another motorist i pick up the bike rode home 30 miles bleeding with a bone sticking out of my elbow....If that happened today 2018 i'll be in an ambulance headed for a hospital crying for more morphine....

Yeah! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Kevin

 

[hogcowboy]

Yeah, I hear you. Been about 8 years for me too...after only 2 surgeries (1 or 2 more still needed), truth is, I'll never be back to pre-accident condition. Yeah! :laugh::laugh::laugh:Kevin

Yep. That's a fact that is hard to accept but is in your face every time you throw(with much effort now for me) a leg over to start a ride. What I'm having the most trouble with is my balance is still so off. That's what I'm fight but having to face the fact that if I want wind in my face I'm going to have to trike or sidecar sooner than I wanted. Every time we take my wife's Spyder in for service or go to a burger burn at HD, I'm looking now. Trying figure out how to keep riding yet prepare for trike conversion or something else is freaking hard work and taxing on the brain. What little there is left.:gah:

 

[Burnerboy]

Great advice!

Also, ALWAYS look in your mirrors BEFORE a fast stop...no reason to compound problems by getting rear-ended!

Kevin

Very good/excellent reminder advice here::: Thank you!

Ronnie

PS: Sorry to cut into your conversation here, (I just had to say this) But again, excellent reminder

 

[jeyoung]

Brakes

Gosh all this talk about brakes I thank during my by-pass recovery I need to check my pads. I am taking the exhaust off now to decat and maybe mod the stock slip-ons. Life was a lot easier back late 60's early 70's when I raced flattrack motorcycles, Heck we did not have brakes on the bikes, gear down, pitch it sideways and back on the gas.

James Young :wave4:

2013 Tri-Glide #1146 of 1450 Anniversary Edition

Vietnam Vet 1971/72 DaNang 196th LIB M60 gunner

 

[Tucci]

Old timer

Rode two wheels for 50 years, now three for past three years, (64 years old).

Old saying ---There's two kind of bikers - those that have been down and those that are going down. Ive been down, hard, two times and didnt like it either time.

 

[Jack Klarich]

Rode two wheels for 50 years, now three for past three years, (64 years old).

Old saying ---There's two kind of bikers - those that have been down and those that are going down. Ive been down, hard, two times and didnt like it either time.

Joe, add to that ole saying, you will get a flat tire, and run out of gas when you least expect it

 

[520fd]

When I have to stop in an Emergency, I use the front and rear brakes. Plus, I'm down shifting as fast as I can. I try to keep the trike going straight. Takes a lot of coordination to get it right. But practice is the key. I've had a few friends that tried to evade deer strikes and tried to swerve and miss them. The result is losing control of their bike and wrecking and getting hurt. I've had both my knees replaced. One of them, twice. (Infection). They had to remove the knee joint for 2 1/2 months. Put a spacer in place of it till the infection went away. Had both of my shoulders replaced. I'm running out of joints. But, still Biking.

 

[rhino 2]

Joe, add to that ole saying, you will get a flat tire, and run out of gas when you least expect it

Flat tire, Yes unexpected.....Running out of gas, Guess who's fault that is...