I'm writing this with one hand because I broke the thumb on my other hand :cry: some dickwad changed into my lane and slammed straight into me :mad: I went flying. I don't know how bad the gs is but it didnt look to rough, needs a left side engine cover :dunno_white: My helmet saved my life :thumb: and my jacket saved me roadrash over an estimated 30% of my body :thumb: thank god for gear. My damage: shattered thumb carpal :o shattered pinky to, fractured shoulder, one little spot of road rash on my forarm and a nice hunk on my knee and several deep gouges on one ankle. I'm on demerol, loritabs and flexeril right now so I'm goin to sleep
Moral of the story: wear you f%$king gear!!!!!
dear god, sorry to hear about that!!! Get some rest and ask for some oxycontin while you're all doped up!
Thats no good dude, make sure you get the good drugs :thumb:
thats harsh mate :icon_confused: glad you are pretty well ok though... could have been alot worse.... like you said the gear done you proud...
Holy chit! Glad you're alright man. Did anyone grab his plate number or anything?
shaZam! man, I'm glad to hear that you're alright. Get insurance to pay for the bike and buy my Daytona!! Ha! Seriously though, that sucks ass, is it a clean break? Any muscle/tendon/ligament damage? Get some rest brother.
OK... Who picked May 25th?
I know... Not really the time to be a dickhead... :oops:
Sorry you got crashed Special Terry. Glad you weren't hurt too badly. I hope your CO doesn't string you up.
:( . Feel Better Dude , Hope It wasnt your shooting hand .
I Hate These Cagers . Just They Dont Look ,.
We have to look for them. :icon_confused: But, I must say that FREAKING LOUD PIPES do help people notice you... A little.
But, even with a bright-freakin'-ORANGE bike... YELLOW gear... DAMN LOUD Straight pipes.... I've still had lots of people try to drive through me. :mad:
Float like a butterfly, accelerate like a bee.
Sorry to hear about your accident sperry, glad your alive, and well, heal well heal fast, and you will be back on two wheels in no time..
Quote from: spcterry on May 25, 2007, 10:13:02 PM
I'm writing this with one hand because I broke the thumb on my other hand :cry: some dickwad changed into my lane and slammed straight into me :mad: I went flying. I don't know how bad the gs is but it didnt look to rough, needs a left side engine cover :dunno_white: My helmet saved my life :thumb: and my jacket saved me roadrash over an estimated 30% of my body :thumb: thank god for gear. My damage: shattered thumb carpal :o shattered pinky to, fractured shoulder, one little spot of road rash on my forarm and a nice hunk on my knee and several deep gouges on one ankle. I'm on demerol, loritabs and flexeril right now so I'm goin to sleep
Moral of the story: wear you f%$king gear!!!!!
Man, that's a tough time you got. Glad to hear you're riding safe and geared up, it's proven again the value of just a few peices of equipment vs road rash. You'll likely get plenty of help from the great guys here with setting up your girl again.
On the driver of the cage:
Did he stop for the accident and have insurance ? Will you be sueing ? Was he apologetic or typically abusive and condescending ?
Be carefull with those med's ;)
5f
sorry to hear about the bad luck my friend. We all have to be carefull this weekend. Tons of stressed out moms in minivans driving like they are late for soccer practice. While trying to beat everyone else to the beach. Get better
Get well!
I'm still going through therapy for my mangled finger from my November crash.
MY ADVICE- make sure you get two opinions, especially for fingers! I learned the hard way.
Hand and finger work is a SPECIALTY! Don't mess around- make sure it's done right! The bone doctor doesn't know about hands.
Hope everything works out for you. :)
The guy ran :mad: :mad: but the police and hospital said that UM should pay for everything :thumb: I go to see the ortho doc tuesday :icon_confused: the guy in ER said I might need a pin :mad: If that happens they are gonna have to remove it, or my ass is out to dry as far as re-enlisting. It's two fairly clean fractures. the shoulder isnt bad, not even a full fracture just a partial hairline. Doc said absolutely no two wheels for atleast 2.5 months, maybe longer depending on what the ortho doc says. I'm thinking this will be a great time to strip the ol gs down and rebuild everything.........hmmmm.......wonder if ducatiboy still has that engine? my right arm is ok despite the shoulder, doc said just no heavy objects :thumb: I went back to the ER this AM for them to just make sure I was alright. I got a massive shot of demerol :thumb: and I still have a couple demerol pills. gotta get up soon and go to walgreens to get my loritab prescrip..........damn I'm sore......I gotta find my old flexeril's :icon_confused: I can go get my bike tuesday :o god I hope she's alright. didnt flip or anything just skidded until the engine case got a hole in it.
Man that sucks at least it wasn't worse, A guy at work recently got merged on by a car, went for a short slide that was ended by another car running him over. Heal well and everyone watch for asshats that pull out in front of bikers, its already happened to me about a dozzen times this year......
Learning and staying diligent about lane placement, guarding your lane, staying visible, etc. really cut down on the number of times I've been cut off this season. There are books about this, worth picking up.
i ll be praying for you, seeing as i am an internet ordaned minister. When you get you hand healed up, go to a good guitar store and pick up a Riffgrip. Itll help you bulid you hands back up, its really made a difference in my guitar playing and in my hands strength.
good luck to you.
yeah, the soonest it will be out of a cast is 2 monnths and my doc said that without surgery/pin it'll probably be more like 3-4 :mad:
Woohoo, total hospital bills so far: 9.5k :o :o
I want my bike back bad :cry: :cry: I miss her :cry:
"F^&K" it is ... damn ... your thumb will be back to normal right ??? That would be good news. Even old people like me will heal up, young kids especially fit ones like you should be good.
But I guess you really recover by buying something cool with the ins money ... :thumb:
Cool.
Srinath.
yeah, gotta see what they will shell out......and if the gs is repairable. doc says if i dont go with surgery it will probably limit my use of the thumb :icon_confused: but if i do let em cut me they'll wanna leave a pin in there which will blow any hope of a SF career :icon_confused: we'll see tuesday for sure. I looked at the thumb x-ray and it looks pretty f%&ked up :cry: but I'm not a doc so.........
I went back to the ER to get a heavier scrip, loritabs weren't cuttin it :o they gave me 30 meperdine/promethezine 50/25.......said it's just pill form demerol..shaZam! works so it's OK in my book :thumb:
ya know I made it to 18 withoput any major injuries since then I've had 11 concussions, several broken toes/fingers ( always metacarpal/metatarsal, though ) staples in my head twice, almost completey severed my right middle finger....yeah thhats about it :o
Ive Been Hit By 3 cars and not a broken bone , but i bet , when ive finished the gs , ill get hit and well hurt , rest up playa! , your bodys has such a shock , needs to wind down a bit . lets hope the gs is in good condition :)
Take it easy
Jay
Quote from: SmartDrug on May 26, 2007, 02:44:19 PM
Learning and staying diligent about lane placement, guarding your lane, staying visible, etc. really cut down on the number of times I've been cut off this season. There are books about this, worth picking up.
Any books that you'd recommend?
Quote from: spcterry on May 26, 2007, 07:19:22 PM
yeah, the soonest it will be out of a cast is 2 monnths and my doc said that without surgery/pin it'll probably be more like 3-4 :mad:
Woohoo, total hospital bills so far: 9.5k :o :o
I want my bike back bad :cry: :cry: I miss her :cry:
9.5k?
My dad when i was 2 was Knocked off his moped and , was wrapped around a railing , was in hospital for over a year , lost 10 pints of blood in total,. it was free and , he got 133,000 pounds off the bloke , like 1/4 Million US,
Still , It Was A Nasty Accident
Quote from: facepants on May 27, 2007, 02:32:19 PM
Any books that you'd recommend?
I'm not a big fan of the MSF anymore, good courses but it has become too much of a business, that is beside the point though, they are the ones responsible for this book and it's excellent. At only $20, it's a good deal too, just might save your ass:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1884313477/ref=pd_cp_b_0/102-6841604-0632166?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_r=0EYHFTZTTYXFDXNYG8E9&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=252362401&pf_rd_i=1884313019
David Hough writes a column for Motorcycle Consumer News, which is an AWESOME magazine that everyone should subscribe to, this is his book ABSOLUTELY worth a read:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1889540536/ref=pd_cp_b_1/102-6841604-0632166?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_r=0QP2VGRT1TWZJ9V21QZQ&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=252362401&pf_rd_i=1884313477
A lot of people I know swear by Keith Code's Twist of the Wrist Series, while I found it's theory to be helpful and it was certainly informative, most of it is geared towards track riding or racing and not particularly geared towards street riding, so check out the other two books first. When you're done with them, pass them on to another new rider.
Ride safe.
I just gott back from a follow up at the ER. They prescribed Mepergan (demerol w/ anti-nausea agent) because Lortabs weren't doion anything :icon_confused: I go to the ortho tuesday :icon_confused: I'm tired as hell, too much meds :dunno_white: I'm goin to sleep
f%$k again!!!!! I go in for surgery on my thumb tommorow :icon_confused: doc says best case no riding for 3 f%$king months :mad: :mad:
Glad you survived.
Three months isn't anything, I was laid up for 6 for just a simple fractured kneecap.
Hope you heal up well and fast [enough].
just the 4 days so far not riding is killing me :cry: I am not looking forward to having screws put in :mad: but oh well
I had to wait a whole year before ., almost killed me , it will fly by dude, dont worry ,
can i ask , do u have to pay ur med bills or does the person who hits u do?
Jay
If he hadnt left the scene, his insurance would pay. But I had Uninsured Motorist coverage so mine is grudgingly paying for all this :icon_rolleyes:
I see , Thats Good Tho , I Hope The Bloke Gets Caught And Grabbed In The Showers By Big Bubba...
Hit And Run Is Proper Wrong
hit and run when bodily injury is involved carries a minimum 3 years incarceration :o Just got back from surgery ( put two pins in my thumb ) doc said everything went really well and I should be able to get em out in 3 weeks then another 3 weeks in plaster :o said even best case it'll be 3-4 months before I'm cleared to ride
well as long as you can still ride thats the important thing.
yeah it coulda been worse, especialy if I hadn't had the gear on :thumb: gives me plenty of time to do that 643 build I've been wanting to do :icon_twisted: :icon_twisted: just need to find an extra set of hands :icon_rolleyes: I'm drugged to hell and back right now in the last 5 hours I've had full doses of demerol,morphine and some other drug they tried cause none of them were working very fast,,,,,,,,it's all catching up now :icon_lol:
You'll be right ride once things are mended. :thumb:
I have a plate in my right wrist from a bike accident 11 years ago. I had to have my wrist reconstructed & the plate put in to hold every thing together was left in. I had nearly six months off work & have 30% loss of movement in the wrist & hand. I got back on a bike 4 years after the accident, so you'll be fine sunshine.
I Well Hope i dont have a accident , im a drummer, so i need my elbows , Knees , Wrists And Ankles,
Get well soon buddy
doc said everything went well and I should be for the most part functionally good as new in a month and a half :thumb: :thumb: no nerve or muscle damage and I should only need a minimal amount of therapy :thumb: :thumb: said to be safe no contact sports or riding for 4 months though :cry: :cry: everything went really well in surgery :thumb: the doc was even surprised :laugh: :laugh:
Did they finally detect the brain damage? I mean... I know it was preexisting, but maybe you could blame it on the crash.
naw.....thats the army's fault :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I got hit a lot in basic training :laugh: :laugh:
BTW: I was told that my aorta runs the opposite direction from normal peoples, doesn't really affect anything, just wierd
Quote from: spcterry on May 30, 2007, 04:51:16 PM
BTW: I was told that my aorta runs the opposite direction from normal peoples, doesn't really affect anything, just wierd
You're better than normal you're abnormal
Get well and ride again :thumb:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I cant wait to get back on 2 wheels :thumb: :thumb: I've got my eye on the Duc sport classic 1000 biposto when I re-up. not over-powered but still plenty of get up and go :thumb: and just a damn gorgeous bike :thumb: :thumb:
Quote from: spcterry on May 30, 2007, 04:51:16 PM
BTW: I was told that my aorta runs the opposite direction from normal peoples, doesn't really affect anything, just wierd
So there's medical proof of what people have been saying :laugh:
Is it true that you went in for a brain scan and they found nothing :icon_mrgreen:
Good to hear your getting better.
yeah these fuckin pins itch :mad: thank god for percocet.......mmmmmm opiate induced bliss :laugh: :laugh: seriously, I've done more drugs in the last week than ever before in my life :o
you know all that smacking around in basic was to "teach" you something that could save your life. The Army always has a reason for something. Even if they dont know it yet.
yea....... it taught me to only mouth off to people smaller than me and with less rank :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :thumb:
seriously, I told my DS once that I wouldaa joined the air force but I was having a special ed moment, much like the majority of his life :o :o I paid for that............... :icon_rolleyes: :icon_rolleyes: and I got the nifty nickname 'flyboy' partially because of the AF comment partially because he threw me across a room :icon_rolleyes:
gotta love those moments. it sucks for a little while but then it gives you and your battle buddy something to laugh about on those long ruck runs. :thumb:
true we were still laughing about that during AIT :laugh: :laugh:
Get well soon!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was off my bike for three months since Nov. for just a broken hand and mangled finger. Seemed like a long time then. It will pass, though.
Think twice about a Duc- antiquated valve system, and complicated to adjust. Desmo valves served a purpose but we have better valve springs now. Beautiful machines though!
Oh hell, get one. I wish I wasn't such a cheap old bastard. I would get one- an ST3.
those are nice machines :thumb: :thumb: I just really like the lines and colors on the gt1000, very classic yet still modern :thumb:
My next bike will be a Supermotard , once the gs is finshed , im gonna get a better job , wilth more money , and then start on a custom supermotard :P
that Ducati 'tard is friggin nice :icon_twisted: especially the new 1098
Quote from: MikeNW on May 31, 2007, 09:19:50 PM
Get well soon!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was off my bike for three months since Nov. for just a broken hand and mangled finger. Seemed like a long time then. It will pass, though.
Think twice about a Duc- antiquated valve system, and complicated to adjust. Desmo valves served a purpose but we have better valve springs now. Beautiful machines though!
Oh hell, get one. I wish I wasn't such a cheap old bastard. I would get one- an ST3.
Actually, you need a special tool, but they really are not that complicated to adjust... certainly easier than 4 valve per cylinder models. The 2V bike has less valves to adjust and it is easier to get to the valve train on 2V bikes. Not really any harder than the GS, from what I've seen from Kerry's video and the Duc video... the problem is the frequency that you need to check them 6k miles vs 12k and higher... at least compared to newer bikes like SV650, EX650, etc. Of course, we know it's 4k with the GS!!! Of course... I won't do either myself LOL... I'd be cursing like the Father on Christmas story... LOL
SPCTerry, sorry about your accident dude... hope you are OK!