Lurck mode off

[LoserShoes]

Well guys, you'll probably be seeing me on here again for a while, just got back from the hospital for treatment of a urinary tract infection, can you say excruciating pain? I'm ok, but will have a cathator attached to a bag straped to my leg for about three weeks. Kind limits what I can do. Riding season is definatly over for me.

Think my wife had a harder time with this than I did.

Steve

[trbig]

Hmmmm.... seems like you could just drain it on the go !!! lol. It would make it easier to pee in the bottle on a trip! Glad you're home, and hope you get well soon!

Tod

[Dragonrider]

Youch! Sorry to hear it! Glad you're getting treated. Feel better soon!

[prometheus578]

"Season over?"

You live in Maine... I figger'd the season was already over.
Glad that this didn't happen in the middle of summer.

"Mom, Joey and I were having a squirt gun fight, and that guy down the street hit us with his concealed "Super Soaker!"

Then the cops come to your house to get you.
"Alright, Pal, let's go. You're in trouble."
"That's right, officer... urine trouble."
(Or something like that)

[xswilly]

hey losershoes today i mixed sta-bol with the gas in my tank and went for
what maybe my last ride for the season, i'm not a fan of riding in the cold weather.
when it gets below 50 i'm pretty much done
glad to hear your on the road to recovery
and by spring you should be ready to go again

[trbig]

when it gets below 50 i'm pretty much done

LOL.. that's when it gets good for me! It's actually when I am safest also. I am in layers, boots, full face helmet with my smock, and cotton gloves under my lined leather gloves... I LOVE riding when it's cooler. As a plus, there are also very few Hardleys to have to listen to also!

Tod

[xswilly]

up here, today sunday
when i got up this morning it was 32 degrees and it warmed up to about 55

and this is a warm day for this time of year

you have never lived until you have felt 18 degrees below zero
you go outside and there is no noises, no birds chirping, no leaves blowing in the wind.
just a weird silence, then you get into your car, and the seat doesn't even compress when you sit on it,
it feels like a cold rock
you turn the key to start and it seems like a few extra seconds before you hear the engine turn over, slow at first, then it picks up speed until it starts. and it takes about 30 seconds or so before it settles into an idle
then you run for the house to warm up and let the car run for about 10 mnutes until the windshield defrost, enough to see
not quite bike riding weather

[chopwatchagot]

I lived in Sioux Falls, SD in high school and my friend and I would make tire chains out of short loops of inner tube around the rim and lengths of chain w/ "s" hooks across the tread. We could go anywhere on our enduros that way. 10 below? no problem! but we were kids then. No such thing as "bad weather" to a kid.

[LoserShoes]

Thanks guys, I'm pretty much back to normal, except for the external plumbing. It's just to let the bladder have rest after having ballooned up to hold 1500cc's before they got it drained.

Steve

[prometheus578]

after having ballooned up to hold 1500cc's

"Losershoes... the human big-bore kit. You should have had them put in a bigger rod for a longer stroke.

[trbig]

You should have had them put in a bigger rod for a longer stroke

Gives new meaning to the term HORSE power.... lol


Tod

[yamarider]

I too am recovering from a hospital visit. Broke my collar bone man-handling the '86 XV a few weeks ago. Gave it a chance to heal on it's own, but had to go under the knife anyway. Now I have a nice, shiney titanium plate on my shoulder. Weather has been absolutely beautiful, giving me the chance to get in some rides while being off from work