i've really been enjoying my drz. hopping curbs, rolling over trash cans, commuting and feeling no bumps on the way to/from work...
then add some dirt and a couple of mis-haps. i guess the 'extreme' trail was named that for a reason. one snapped clutch lever and one snapped leg and i've learned a short lesson: dirt hurts!
but man is it ever fun!
bonus: i'll be aggrevating millions more folks on the internet now that i have nothing to do for the next 4-5 weeks.
I used to ride/ race motocross so i know your pain, although ive never broken anything... But yea dirt aint as soft as you think, it just cuts you up less. Get well soon.
Yeesh, how exactly did you break the leg? Was it really rocky or were you jumping etc..?
I just got an xr650L for an upcoming trip to Colorado; man that thing is big and heavy I am hoping I'll be able to manage it on the more technical stuff.
Quote from: dohabee on September 05, 2010, 10:10:09 AM
Yeesh, how exactly did you break the leg? Was it really rocky or were you jumping etc..?
I just got an xr650L for an upcoming trip to Colorado; man that thing is big and heavy I am hoping I'll be able to manage it on the more technical stuff.
one of the riders was on a xr650... ya, that's a big un. the technical stuff looked like something he just plowed through/over instead of finessing. my offroad boots are -ok- but i'll look into sturdier spec while i'm healing. and chest/back arm protectors instead of an armored jacket.
exact cause was a 60 degree or so hill, around 30 feet down, and my lack of off road skills. i fixated on a tree 3/4 of the way down and washed the front end out.. leading to the bike cart flipping with me the remaining 25% to the bottom. a few pictures from bamarides:
one of the guys has not one, but two huskies, and they are the cleanest, best sounding 4 strokes you've ever seen
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this, just before the ride
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registration @ the ohv park:
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pushing the bike (with broken leg)
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get-out-of-everything-around-the-house-card
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the pain from a broken bone is weird. reallly weird. walk 2-3 steps and nothing... step on a penny and an excrutiating, throbbing, stabbing, fireworks-hot pain shoots through your leg/bones like a missile. instant debilitating pain. then, it throbs a little, and disappears. riding out wasn't that bad, and i actually considered hitting the 'easy' trails by myself. quite glad i didn't now... woulda been a Buddha Loves You to drag my ass out of the woods with one leg had i toppled over again.
they loaded my bike (THANKS GUYS) for me, and it's still in the truck. crutches suck ! fall will be here along with perfect riding weather. i will have more gear and ambition then. :D
That looks like a normal bandage. Don't docs Plaster any more?
Michael
Quote from: mister on September 05, 2010, 10:33:35 PM
That looks like a normal bandage. Don't docs Plaster any more?
Michael
The er was slammed.... this thing is just a splint until I see the. surgeon tomorrow.
That sucks man. I've had a few falls but luckily I haven't broken anything yet.
whole milk, OJ+calcium, multi-vitamins, beef n dairy 20 times a day, the tingling is gone. i'm still ugly, but the tingling is gone :D
Ouch man. I've found the only difference between dirt and pavement is it's less abrasive. But here in Missouri the rocks will get you every time any way.
Don't Know why I never noticed but the Husky exhaust come out the other side compared to the rest of em.
Quote from: Poorboy on September 12, 2010, 01:47:13 PM
Don't Know why I never noticed but the Husky exhaust come out the other side compared to the rest of em.
Yep, some of the old ones also had the chain on the other side like a sportster.
SO whats the prognosis on the leg are you all healed up?
Quote from: JB848 on October 10, 2010, 06:12:09 PM
SO whats the prognosis on the leg are you all healed up?
leg is 85-90% accoding to the doc. started pt last night and why are cute little pt girls so damned hard on me?
found out I also broke my big toe when I started walking on it. and wrist. another week or two of healing and I'll go back to work. atrophy is a terrible thing.... during pt I found balancing on one foot is exhausting, and elliptical machines are the devil.
also cute little pt girls are unforgiving, mean, heartless, and results oriented. good thing!
Quote from: ohgood on October 16, 2010, 02:02:40 AM
Quote from: JB848 on October 10, 2010, 06:12:09 PM
SO whats the prognosis on the leg are you all healed up?
leg is 85-90% accoding to the doc. started pt last night and why are cute little pt girls so damned hard on me?
found out I also broke my big toe when I started walking on it. and wrist. another week or two of healing and I'll go back to work. atrophy is a terrible thing.... during pt I found balancing on one foot is exhausting, and elliptical machines are the devil.
also cute little pt girls are unforgiving, mean, heartless, and results oriented. good thing!
I see photos of a broken leg and dudes with bikes but no cute physio therapist girls??? Whats the go?
well at least you had PT when I broke my tib fib a few months back they did my surgury pumped my with drugs sent me home with more drugs and two weeks later told me to go back to work being that only two 1/4 inch pins are bearing my weight I had to deal with a shaZam! load of pain for like 3 months till I got used to it. still get a real bad pain when its cold and still cant run right or do stairs all that great.
Quote from: Twisted on October 16, 2010, 03:00:21 AM
Quote from: ohgood on October 16, 2010, 02:02:40 AM
Quote from: JB848 on October 10, 2010, 06:12:09 PM
SO whats the prognosis on the leg are you all healed up?
leg is 85-90% accoding to the doc. started pt last night and why are cute little pt girls so damned hard on me?
found out I also broke my big toe when I started walking on it. and wrist. another week or two of healing and I'll go back to work. atrophy is a terrible thing.... during pt I found balancing on one foot is exhausting, and elliptical machines are the devil.
also cute little pt girls are unforgiving, mean, heartless, and results oriented. good thing!
I see photos of a broken leg and dudes with bikes but no cute physio therapist girls??? Whats the go?
the wife escorted me and did all the shooting ... mostly of me looking weak and her laughing @ me with the devil.... women!!!
Quote from: ohgood on October 16, 2010, 02:02:40 AM
Quote from: JB848 on October 10, 2010, 06:12:09 PM
SO whats the prognosis on the leg are you all healed up?
leg is 85-90% accoding to the doc. started pt last night and why are cute little pt girls so damned hard on me?
found out I also broke my big toe when I started walking on it. and wrist. another week or two of healing and I'll go back to work. atrophy is a terrible thing.... during pt I found balancing on one foot is exhausting, and elliptical machines are the devil.
also cute little pt girls are unforgiving, mean, heartless, and results oriented. good thing!
Oh man ... I got a cute PT once upon a time too, better yet, she was from south africa, had one super cool accent sorta like australian but with some dutch thrown in and I could talk cricket with her. She taught me to stand on a golf ball. Which I do religiously ...
Get better ... or not depending on the cute factor.
Cool.
Buddha.
I think my leg is starting to hurt? PT sounds fun.
Quote from: The Buddha on October 18, 2010, 08:14:06 AM
Quote from: ohgood on October 16, 2010, 02:02:40 AM
Quote from: JB848 on October 10, 2010, 06:12:09 PM
SO whats the prognosis on the leg are you all healed up?
leg is 85-90% accoding to the doc. started pt last night and why are cute little pt girls so damned hard on me?
found out I also broke my big toe when I started walking on it. and wrist. another week or two of healing and I'll go back to work. atrophy is a terrible thing.... during pt I found balancing on one foot is exhausting, and elliptical machines are the devil.
also cute little pt girls are unforgiving, mean, heartless, and results oriented. good thing!
Oh man ... I got a cute PT once upon a time too, better yet, she was from south africa, had one super cool accent sorta like australian but with some dutch thrown in and I could talk cricket with her. She taught me to stand on a golf ball. Which I do religiously ...
Get better ... or not depending on the cute factor.
Cool.
Buddha.
Wanna talk cricket. Hows about the ass whoopin you handed us recently or should I say Tendulkar did. We never do any good on the sub-continent. Hope we do better in the ashes series that starts next month :dunno_white:
Australia is not the team it used to be. I mean Shane Warne never was a big threat to India, however McGrath and Gillespie were. Brett lee was not in many matches so we didn't see the best of him. Mitchell Johnson was shaping up to be a threat, he seems to have got Dravid's number but seriously McGrath was in a whole other league. I actually am still thinking of the first test, Laxman (yes you guys gonna have a party when he retires I know) and #10 and #11 made up 92 runs. That oughta give Pointing some new laxman nightmares.
Cool.
Buddha.
How did you go from PT Nurses to "Cricket"? Very confusing and not as much fun :nono:
Quote from: JB848 on October 20, 2010, 09:40:46 PM
How did you go from PT Nurses to "Cricket"? Very confusing and not as much fun :nono:
No its actually very easy, the pitcher, we call him the bowler, has to bowl, then we have the hitter who is called batsman, can hit the ball, or not, and all he has to do to stay in the game is defend his stumps which is 3 little sticks stuck in the ground, and not be caught if he hits the ball, and the rest of the fielders are there to catch or stop the ball, and the keeper - the catcher is the keeper is there to stop the ball behind the stumps.
If the batsman hits it or the keeper fails to catch it you can take off for a run. You run towards the bowler, and the other batsman runs toward the keeper. When they get to their respective locations they have 1 run, then they can turnaround and run back for a second if they can or stay put, or even do a 3rd or a 4th or a 5th etc if the ball is hit far away. If a fielder hits the ball onto the stumps when the batsman is out of the crease (1 yard from the stumps) then he is run out. Of course he can also be bowled (ball hits the stumps when the bowler bowls) or caught (he hits and someone catches it) or be leg before (takes it on his legs and the umpire thinks it would ahve hit the stumps). Or hit wicket - he hits the stumps with his body/bat. A 4 is when the batsman hits the ball out of the boundary lines, and a 6 is when he sends it over the ropes wihtout it hitting the ground.
See nothing to it.
Cool.
Buddha.
OK so how do you hit a homerun and who's on first? :D
The first = non striker. So anyone who is batting but isn't on strike is on first. Its also second and third. ... Aka there is no first ... its non striker.
Home run = six, Just clobber a half volley clean over the bowlers head. Makes a huge statement, but is the hardest to do, its the longest distance to cover, every bit of 75 yards even in a small ground, a big ground like melbourne or perth its can be clear over a 100 (though on those 2 the midwicket/cover boundary is the largest @ over 110 yards) but they used to have lightning quick outfields that once you get it past the fielder ... it will zip away. The other popular way to hit a 6 is to move back to a short ball, get under it and pull it or behind it and hook it. You tend to get the fine leg - backward square boundary which can be the shortest in many cases, as little as 55-60 yards. But a straight 6 is really an indication of superiority over the bowler, its like smooshing his face in the mud. In fact a straight 4 off a fast bowler does it quite well too. Usually there are no fielders there, so hitting it there, time it right and you get a 4. The umpires will scurry out of the way too, the non striker usually dodges it, sometimes lets it through between his legs, all classic straight drives, quite dramatic. The bowler meantime is following through after the ball and has very little time to react, and plenty of time to look hapless. Fun.
There is a 100 more, but these 2 V sections, one in front of the batsman as he is facing, sorta where his leading shoulder is, and one to his rear - are the most common. You can effectively slice a fast bowler over the slip cordon as well. Again a short boundary to help it along as well as a nice 95 mph ball with some bounce.
Cool.
Buddha.
:thumb: Thanks for the info but I was making a joke? :thumb:
You know Abbot and Costello "Who's on First"?
Nevermind! Seriously though now I understand it much better!
Ha ha I know ... try this, who's the non striker. Striker. Repeat as desired.
Cool.
Buddha.
Also the wickets are laid out in a block of 6 or 8 because they are prepped differently, they have layers of brick, gravel, sand and what not under them. They have to drain and drain quite rapidly so if your native soil is red clay ... you will truck in material that drains and dries ... and they need 4-6-8 per ground so they can run practice on one while they do test matches on another. Effectively a test pitch gets prepped for weeks on end, so they use only the others. Sometimes they would have to use one of the edge 4. It can be as little as 40 yards to the short boundary from one of those. A smart batsman can slam everything to that corner. A lot of people dont know this, but Kapil's 175 not out @ 1983 world cup was played @ tunbridge wells on one of those where the off side square eas super super short. This was a game against Zimbabwe (a totally toothless team) and india spectacularly went down to 17 for 5 ...
This is the scorecard from that game -
http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65083.html
Apparently the short boundary was thorougly exploited in that match by kapil dev that it was thoroughly laughable that such a strong off side top order failed so miserably and kapil and the tail put on 250 runs.
Cool.
Buddha.
Errr so how did the Yankees do that year?
Quote from: JB848 on October 22, 2010, 04:54:05 AM
Errr so how did the Yankees do that year?
They didn't, that is why they are still being whipped around by the Steinbrenner guy.
India did it, and that's why we dont have no Steinbrenner. See how it works.
Cool.
Buddha.
Well they lost tonight so better luck next year. Goooooo Giants! West is best! :thumb:
went up here and it was fun
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then i came down, and it was not
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i forget, is it me or the bike that's supposed to be on top ?
WTF dude? Are you accident prone or what? Man that sucks. Did you ever ride BMX or mountain bikes as a kid? What happened this time anyway? That looks like a nasty cut!
What kind of protection do you wear when riding in the dirt?
Damn that looks nasty.
Anything to meet some more nurses huh? There has to be a less painful way :icon_lol: