Haven't ridden in ages! AAAHHHHH!!!
#1
10-02-2010, 04:05 PM
Haven't ridden in ages! AAAHHHHH!!!
After the wettest Winter I can remember, Spring's looking much the same. My driveway is 4WD only atm and there's just no way I can safely get the CBR down the hill. Water's still running out of the ground several days after the last heavy rain. There's rutts (and not the good kind
) where the track's washed out all the way down to the dirt road and it's not too flash either. More rain on the way.
On top of that I just had a week off work, thinking to go camping and fishing or to the beach, and had to spend the whole week replacing hundreds of metres of fences in the rain because my bull was getting out and making an **** of himself all around the place. I found the pr!ck once about half a km away in somebody else's place. I waved a stick, told him to get F'N home and the ba5tard just trotted down the road, with me driving the ute behind him, straight through the gate into our place. Then he just turned around and looked at me as if to say "what??"
Please excuse the whinge but as I'm English it's a birth right (the Aussies will know what I mean
). I feel a bit better now, thanks guys.
Ah, country life
) where the track's washed out all the way down to the dirt road and it's not too flash either. More rain on the way.On top of that I just had a week off work, thinking to go camping and fishing or to the beach, and had to spend the whole week replacing hundreds of metres of fences in the rain because my bull was getting out and making an **** of himself all around the place. I found the pr!ck once about half a km away in somebody else's place. I waved a stick, told him to get F'N home and the ba5tard just trotted down the road, with me driving the ute behind him, straight through the gate into our place. Then he just turned around and looked at me as if to say "what??"
Please excuse the whinge but as I'm English it's a birth right (the Aussies will know what I mean
). I feel a bit better now, thanks guys.Ah, country life
#2
10-02-2010, 08:25 PM
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That sucks you can't ride, Dave. We just got hit with 3-4" of rain this week, too. Real dry before that, tho. Temps are dropping, also. 
The rain made a real mess where I work. We've been moving a lot of dirt and just got final cover and topsoil down on the slopes when we got hit hard. Chit everywhere. We were set to seed, but just not quite in time.
Funny about your bull, tho.
It's strange how different their personalities can be. Some are just flat out ****** (well, most are...lol) but some aren't too bad. At least you got him home without too much incident.
The rain made a real mess where I work. We've been moving a lot of dirt and just got final cover and topsoil down on the slopes when we got hit hard. Chit everywhere. We were set to seed, but just not quite in time.
Funny about your bull, tho.
It's strange how different their personalities can be. Some are just flat out ****** (well, most are...lol) but some aren't too bad. At least you got him home without too much incident.
#3
10-02-2010, 10:00 PM
that's a pain
So sorry about that Dave, nutting worse than when a bull gives you some ****
Hope you get back on the bike soon enough, so is it all dirt roads around
you or are some paved ??? just curious .
Hey Dylan, sounds like a real mess washing all the final cover off on you Guys
jeez that's a heap of work capping it off again..... don't envy ya there. Much runoff come out ??
Hope you get back on the bike soon enough, so is it all dirt roads around
you or are some paved ??? just curious .
Hey Dylan, sounds like a real mess washing all the final cover off on you Guys
jeez that's a heap of work capping it off again..... don't envy ya there. Much runoff come out ??
#4
10-03-2010, 12:57 AM
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We got our first real rain since June this week. Just enough to make me wash my car - naw, that is what rain does. I stopped riding for a couple of weeks.
We had that big biker even last week called Street Vibrations. About 200,000 bikers come into Reno/Sparks, NV for the 5 day event each year. Lot's of good times. Well, except for my cousin's wife. She got cut off on her Harley and got slammed. Broke her femur bone and it was a compound fracture. Bone came out the leg and blood was everywhere on the street. Thought she might not only loose her leg, but also her life. My cousin was in a truck going to the same destination about 10 minutes after her. Saw a bunch of people on the road ahead and went around them not knowing it was his wife. When he looked into the rearview mirror, he saw his wife's chrome pith helmet in the middle of the road. That is not good to see! He is in a group of riders called the Long Riders who are Clampers (act like miners of gold rush days but are there for family support really. Must be a Clamper to be a Long Rider). Well, his Long rider buddies took care of her bike (trailered it to his house), while he got into the emergency vehicle with her. So, my nerve is a little shaken lately. Figured, if I am not on my game and it is rainy, stay home with the Jack on ice for a few weeks.
She got out of the hospital Friday with pins, rods, plates and nails (yes, the doc put nails in her leg. Must be a carpenter on the side!) in her leg. I will be seeing her tomorrow. Her first comments when she got out of surgery? "When will I be able to ride again Doc, one week or two?" His answer, "6 to 8 months!" Hers, "BS, soon as I can walk, I can ride." BTW, she is up walking with crutches today....
We had that big biker even last week called Street Vibrations. About 200,000 bikers come into Reno/Sparks, NV for the 5 day event each year. Lot's of good times. Well, except for my cousin's wife. She got cut off on her Harley and got slammed. Broke her femur bone and it was a compound fracture. Bone came out the leg and blood was everywhere on the street. Thought she might not only loose her leg, but also her life. My cousin was in a truck going to the same destination about 10 minutes after her. Saw a bunch of people on the road ahead and went around them not knowing it was his wife. When he looked into the rearview mirror, he saw his wife's chrome pith helmet in the middle of the road. That is not good to see! He is in a group of riders called the Long Riders who are Clampers (act like miners of gold rush days but are there for family support really. Must be a Clamper to be a Long Rider). Well, his Long rider buddies took care of her bike (trailered it to his house), while he got into the emergency vehicle with her. So, my nerve is a little shaken lately. Figured, if I am not on my game and it is rainy, stay home with the Jack on ice for a few weeks.
She got out of the hospital Friday with pins, rods, plates and nails (yes, the doc put nails in her leg. Must be a carpenter on the side!) in her leg. I will be seeing her tomorrow. Her first comments when she got out of surgery? "When will I be able to ride again Doc, one week or two?" His answer, "6 to 8 months!" Hers, "BS, soon as I can walk, I can ride." BTW, she is up walking with crutches today....
#5
10-03-2010, 10:59 AM
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Hey Dylan, sounds like a real mess washing all the final cover off on you Guys jeez that's a heap of work capping it off again..... don't envy ya there. Much runoff come out ??
Now it's just a matter of moving it from the isolated channel back to the slope and regrading. Several hundred yards to move, but that's really nothing with our machines. Better than the thousands of yards it coulda been if we let stuff go.
Nevada, that's terrible about your cousin's wife.
Hope she heals up well. A buddy of mine and his wife just went down in Ocean City MD at bike week. A woman changed lanes right into them. Luckily they weren't hurt badly, the bike just got bashed pretty good. I think the worst part was that the woman claimed it was their fault after the fact.
#6
10-03-2010, 12:41 PM
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The person who hit my cousin's wife hit and ran. He/she will be sighted, IF they ever find the person. Basically, he hit her broadside going in the same direction. This is not the time to say it, but I just think it is important.
Watch the 3 DVD series "Street Smarts", a motorcycle training video. In the video this one professional rider keeps saying, "Blind Spots, stay out of blind spots." He rides from visible space to visible space and stays out of other car's blind spots.
Harley riders (on the whole not all) ride with their face forward, chin up with an attitude of "this is my road." They don't care about blind spots. I kept telling her, when we rode together, "Stay out of the car driver's blind spots, they will get you." She thinks, "Loud pipes save lives." Nope, not with louder hip-hop music playing in the car. She has a tendency to ride in the "kill zone" beside car drivers in their blind spot. Well all her bad habits came together and the moons aligned on her that day. She was riding in the blind spot, beside the car in the "kill zone" where she got smashed because her head was "chin up looking straight ahead." I stopped for the yellow light, she blew threw it. Then, between stop lights she got crunched. I blew a red light to get to her!
Who do you think put the turnequet on her leg to keep her alive? Shadow knows how to put those things on too, don't you Shadow (Always carry a small pipe and wear a T-shirt under your jacket. NO, not a bong Trout and not a smoking pipe! What were you thinking?). I guess that is why God made me go in the Army during war. To learn how to deal with, as the British say, "A Bloody mess." Different meaning for the same "bloody" word. When I see her today, I am going to tell her, she owes me a T-shirt with the saying on back, "Everyone Dies, Not Everyone Lives." It has(d) a picture of the Reaper riding, hanging a corner on a Sport Bike!
Watch the 3 DVD series "Street Smarts", a motorcycle training video. In the video this one professional rider keeps saying, "Blind Spots, stay out of blind spots." He rides from visible space to visible space and stays out of other car's blind spots.
Harley riders (on the whole not all) ride with their face forward, chin up with an attitude of "this is my road." They don't care about blind spots. I kept telling her, when we rode together, "Stay out of the car driver's blind spots, they will get you." She thinks, "Loud pipes save lives." Nope, not with louder hip-hop music playing in the car. She has a tendency to ride in the "kill zone" beside car drivers in their blind spot. Well all her bad habits came together and the moons aligned on her that day. She was riding in the blind spot, beside the car in the "kill zone" where she got smashed because her head was "chin up looking straight ahead." I stopped for the yellow light, she blew threw it. Then, between stop lights she got crunched. I blew a red light to get to her!
Who do you think put the turnequet on her leg to keep her alive? Shadow knows how to put those things on too, don't you Shadow (Always carry a small pipe and wear a T-shirt under your jacket. NO, not a bong Trout and not a smoking pipe! What were you thinking?). I guess that is why God made me go in the Army during war. To learn how to deal with, as the British say, "A Bloody mess." Different meaning for the same "bloody" word. When I see her today, I am going to tell her, she owes me a T-shirt with the saying on back, "Everyone Dies, Not Everyone Lives." It has(d) a picture of the Reaper riding, hanging a corner on a Sport Bike!
#7
10-03-2010, 01:10 PM
Shadow knows how to put those things on too, don't you Shadow (Always carry a small pipe and wear a T-shirt under your jacket.
I do, yes, Joe. I carry a length of surgical rubber tubing and any spanner will do as a twister.
And yes, always wear a T shirt under the leather. I also carry some basic emergency **** in the tail section (which tells you how small that is) like tweezers, razor blade, a bandage, some antiseptic, gauze pads, and some duct tape for serious wounds. And a condom with headache pills, viagra and opening medicine(don't confuse the last two) and other useful drugs in it to keep them dry..............
I do, yes, Joe. I carry a length of surgical rubber tubing and any spanner will do as a twister.
And yes, always wear a T shirt under the leather. I also carry some basic emergency **** in the tail section (which tells you how small that is) like tweezers, razor blade, a bandage, some antiseptic, gauze pads, and some duct tape for serious wounds. And a condom with headache pills, viagra and opening medicine(don't confuse the last two) and other useful drugs in it to keep them dry..............
#8
10-03-2010, 02:15 PM
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Yep, joe... blind spots are bad news. If a car insists on me being near it, I leave them well behind me. (although that has gotten me in trouble with johnny law on more than one occasion.. )
I was run off the road by a car once who was trying to pass then realized his exit was coming up and decided to get back over. You would think that he would have seen me being as though he JUST went around me.
Which is why you never assume anything when riding. People are f'in stupid, and I prefer to stay away from them. Cities/towns are even worse for that. People trying to get that one car length advantage no matter who they kill.
On the tourniquet thing.... I always carry a couple wrenches and I'm always wearing a t-shirt... so I guess I'm set....
...just never really thought about it, I guess. No viagra, tho. What's that for?
)I was run off the road by a car once who was trying to pass then realized his exit was coming up and decided to get back over. You would think that he would have seen me being as though he JUST went around me.
Which is why you never assume anything when riding. People are f'in stupid, and I prefer to stay away from them. Cities/towns are even worse for that. People trying to get that one car length advantage no matter who they kill.
On the tourniquet thing.... I always carry a couple wrenches and I'm always wearing a t-shirt... so I guess I'm set....
...just never really thought about it, I guess. No viagra, tho. What's that for?
#9
10-03-2010, 06:03 PM
#10
10-04-2010, 01:37 AM
Nevada; sorry to hear the bad news mate. I hope she mends well and gets back on the bike soon.