TOG Ride 20 January 2013

This is a medium pace ride. A medium Pace ride is where you can pass the ride leader to enjoy the roads and your bike, but you need to be aware of upcoming route requirements. If you make a wrong turn you are on your own.

This ride is also being organised on another forum. it is not an exclusive GSTwins ride.

Ride leaves Dayboro skate park parking area, Mt Mee Road at 8:00am, 7:45am meet, greet and rider briefing.

There are only a few planned stopping points along the way, see below, but we will stop as required to regroup if we become too strung out. There are points along the way where we will be making turns. We will stop at all the major turns as required on the day, plus at times we will try to slow the ride down for turns so the group bunches up. Slower/less confident riders will be accommodated as we will regroup as required.

Stopping Points:
Dayboro at the skate bowl car park, also meeting point for riders coming from other directions;
Mary Cairncross Park for a toilet break and drink if you need it, there is a Cafe;
Mapleton BP for fuel stop (and split up if required) and toilet break (~180kms from Dayboro);
Montville Pub, Montville, stopping for lunch;
Mary Cairncross Park for a toilet break and drink if you need it, there is a Cafe;
Then back to Dayboro skate bowl car park arriving at about half past.

Route is shown from/to Dayboro.
The ride is around 300kms as shown taking approximately 5 hours excluding stops.

Rider list of attendees:

Link for map has too manny https:// in it.

Quote from: Banzai on January 05, 2013, 03:12:55 PM
Link for map has too manny https:// in it.

thanks didn't realise, posted this on 3 forums, each uses their own version of URL linking.

Should be working now.

I'll tentatively say I'm in for this one pending nice weather and none of my other half-made plans for the day eventuating...\

Looks like a nice route! 

Cancelled due to broken legs, details later.

Mate I'm a little concerned... posts on Brissy Riders club don't look real good but I can't find what's going on? Hope you're doing ok, was hoping to see you on Waterworks Rd and give you a nod at some point but this isn't looking likely at the moment.

All the best mate, hope you're ok!

Geesh... Broken legs don't sound to good.

Just an update on my situation.

Sunday 6 January I was descending Mt Mee.  I was involved in a head on collision with a 4WD.  I am still unable to fully recall the details of the incident.  However based on the information I am aware of I have some medical issues to investigate that may have been contributing factors that I was unaware of.

Following an ambulance ride to RBH (helicopter unavailable) throughout which I was completely conscious I arrived at RBH.  From that point on I remember little for about 48 hours.

In that 48 hours I had emergency surgery 3 times over, having my spleen removed (1), my left tibia and fibia "nailed" (2) and then then further internal surgery (3) to stabilise internal injuries, kidney damage.  Throughout which I was in an induced coma state.  I also have broken ribs on my left side.  I have another operation coming up to rebuild my right leg as I have a broken right fibia tip and have torn every ligament in my right knee.  They have no idea if they are rebuilding or replacing the ligaments just yet.

I spent 11 days in ICU due to post operative complications which when finally resolved left me with a 6" hole in my abdomen which is going to take about 3 weeks to close up, I have to stay in hospital for that whole process.  I think its called a "Vac Dressing" and it looks like an alien could just jump straight out of the hole in my abdomen.

Following this I have a long road to recovery, about 6 months which will involve wheel chair and crutches, crutches/walking stick possibly for life if the leg injury does not come good.  Anyone know how to make holders for motorbikes?

I have learned a lot in the last two weeks.  I can tolerate pain, the Pain Management team are surprised at how I refuse pain drugs, since I cannot tolerate most opiates, it's a fact of my life to be highly tolerant of pain.  The physios are surprised that I am already breathing deeper than most people do without broken ribs.

The surgeons here at RBH are not only class leading, but world leading and they have a great sense of humour.  My sincere thanks to them and all the teams that back them up.

Leathers are bar none the best protection to have in an accident, I will never ride in anything else ever again.  I do not have a single external scratch from the accident and the leather held my compound fractured left leg together.  Full Face helmets are the only way to go.

My immediate family is brilliant in their support and of course extended family/friends for being there when I needed them.

As for financial, there is nothing to worry about.  Holiday leave is taking me through to 1 Feb where my Income Protection kicks in at 90% for 2 years.  My Loan insurance will cover repayments for 13 months.  The bike is fully comprehensively covered at agreed value plus extras.  Financially I have no concerns to deal with.  That's why everyone should have insurance.

Thank you everyone for your concern.  I cannot stay online long so if you wish to contact me I may not be able to contact you back, I am at RBH, Ward 9A for now, but will be moved after the next operation scheduled for early in the week.

Ride safe everyone.

Wow... mate I'm so glad that you're still here to post the update! That's some serious shaZam!...

That sounds like you're going to have a bit of a painful road ahead, but you sound positive about it which is excellent to hear!

Glad to see you're thinking of how you can get a walking stick strapped on the bike too, that's some good thinking! 

As far as that goes, I reckon a bit of PVC pipe just a little larger than the foot of the stick strapped down one side of the bike and a bit of elastic over the top of it you can slip over the head of the stick to hold it in place. You could even go all fancy and colour code the PVC to the bike's paint scheme.

Keep your spirits up, and I'll be thinkin' of ya'... glad to hear you have lots of support around you too, and good onya for keeping the med's to a minimum too, some of those pain killers are just a little too effective sometimes. I know of one called Endone that does wonderous things... but of course too many of them and you don't want to stop them... and that's worse than the pain I reckon!

Chin up mate, and keep us up to date when you're able to.

I call Endone the Avatar drug if you know what I mean.  I felt like like I was in the Avatar movie.

I haven't seen the movie but from all reports that would make sense. I haven't taken it myself (my wife was prescribed it once) but not something you wanna get stuck on!

I do salute you for keeping those pain killers to a minimum, I reckon that's the way to go... although if it was me I'd probably be crying like a little girl...

Wow that sounds really serious  all of this in full leather too!!

I think this will be a bit of a wake up call to me, since I've only got 3rd party fire and theft insurance on the bike (because at 20 it's insanely expensive) and I've only got mortgage protection insurance for if I die...so come to think about it, if anything happened to me I'd only have my sick and holiday leave to cover me then I'd be screwed....

Never met you mate but I wish you the speediest of recoveries! Really sad to hear when stuff like this happens but you're still alive and hopefully will live to ride another day 

Glad you made it good sir, stay strong. This is an amazing example of why its wise to have good insurance. Best wishes and a fast recovery.

Graham

I'm a financial planner so its sort of expected that I have these issues sorted. If anyone needs assistance or even just a second opinion on their situation, I'm happy to help.  I don't want anyone's business just like to know people have peace of mind that what they have is adequate.  You can get some good cover if you know how to structure it properly.

Aaaah that would explain why you're so well covered! I should probably review all my policies at some point... especially seeing how all your policies are going to kick in to keep things under control while you recuperate.