Would someone go for a ride for me?

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calbigbird

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I had major shoulder surgery three weeks ago and all three of my bikes are covered up in the garage. Would some plese go for a ride and tell me how great it was? I am about tired of sitting in the family room with my arm in a sling. I need some vicarious riding satisfaction.
 
I'm in Fullerton, the next town north of you. Some of us gather at Scottie's Smokehouse on Katella in Orange on Thursday nights for Vintage Bike Night. One Nortoneer from this forum is a regular attendee on his 850 and I hope to have my (hopefully) soon to be finished '72 out on the 29th of this month. Come on out even if it is in a car and swap lies with us. The crowd brings mostly 70s/80s/90s J-bikes but sometimes older bikes do put in an appearance.

Vintage Paul
 
Hope this picture from my weekend ride helps with the vicarious riding satisfaction........

Would someone go for a ride for me?


Trouble with this style of riding is it very easily leads to shoulder injuries: fortunately no surgery for me, as yet (touch wood), but I did end up with three months of physical therapy last year.

Cheers! ~ Gary
 
Done :wink:
100 miles today, 2 hailstorms and some nice gusting winds on a few exposed ridges. Scary stuff
 
Ah mate, I know exactly what your talking about.
I bought my second Fastback (98/99) while my left shoulder was in a sling, after rebiuld.
Torn Biceps tendon and Rotator cuff with stretched muscles around the Sub Scapularos etc.
Had to get a mate to do the test ride. Didn't get to ride the bike myself for 2 months.
Jesus that was hard.
Hang in there.
 
Put massive in front of the rotator cuff tear and you just described my shoulder. Two more weeks in a sling and then start therapy. It may be two more months before I can ride, or even put the new clutch in my Triumph. So far, this sucks.

Thanks for the rides, that does help. When I went to Oregon last June, we rode through a Tornado warning including high winds and hail. Now that was intersting.
 
I'll take a ride for you tomorrow. It'll be my first Saturday ride in eons. I had a busted clavicle in March that sidelined me for a couple months, so I feel your pain. I'm thinking Mulholland Drive...
 
I rode my Combat for the first time yesterday with a stuck clutch around my parents yard, it's 5 acres, does that count.
 
I rode my Combat for the first time yesterday with a stuck clutch around my parents yard, it's 5 acres, does that count.
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Duh, ride a few miles on regular roads with a fine clutch and compare if the short but committed pasture tour counted or not? Does to me even with a clutch.

Here's the most fun I'd have on a Commando in years because of unexpected severe broken set backs, me and Trixie. Still breaking stuff w/o really trying of course but sure nice when it don't hurt at all. New axle on hand now but never asked nor looked at the invoice, just seems normal wallet weepage amounts to stay in the game, not the same strain as trying to just return to the game. Most the noise is the exhaust clamps not yet mounted pointed more inward than downward. I've put off putting on my John Tinkle rear sets but now want the clearance to see if I can stunt drift and hop a floppy eared Commando around those crooked parking cone events.

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On Ms Peel, HELL YES and Boy Howdy. On Trixie or regular un tamed and un lifted C'do might be able to match em, until I get used to flying a regular one low and slow again. Realize I'm a late comer to this forum so not a newbie to C'do handling quirks and wild nothing to lose saves. I was about to demo a regular C'do snaking/hopping ability when the axle popped. Stayed tuned for more. Fairly regularly Pig Trail Harley had events just like this, usually 2 set up at once, one for contest time and another to play as ya like. Also Realize I don't never ever ride into a fear state or into unknown handling or tire limits, so I'm still slower than about anyone in hwy twisities, so far, but got Trixie's braking down to beware of tire locking too fast and now her lean limits, so next phase is the power hook up limits on full lean and then work up to hinged onset as some speed. I have to get tires warmed up prior like real racers too or slips right out before the fun G levels reached, up to the hinged handling onset.

Each trip out I creep up on getting a limit upset of one sort or another. Its slowly ever so slowing building up the data base of muscle computers in my brain stem and spinal cord. To ride like I want to is like learning guitar, slow picking at first but no way brain can keep up once ready to hammer down. Trixie so far seemed surprisingly safe at parking cone speeds, which is more important to me on a regular C'do than flying around in public roads. I know what it costs to just ride sanely which is about same as letting hair out fully. Fate is A Hunter.

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My trouble is I have the old age fear and also the lack of balance that youth has. I could go around the corners a lot faster here if I knew there wasn't an Escalade coming around it towards me in my lane or a deer jumping out of the bushes. I can't stand any more crashes.

It sounded like that cop on the Hog was scraping his bars a lot, if it was a Hog, I can't tell. The other thing I have is turning tight like that on THE gravel and it's not cool.

Dave
69S
 
Well to be blunt hobot operates on another level than having to deal with old age or lasting effects of life time of broken necks, head bashing, out of body infections and venom they amputate for way less. Much as hobot is a missionary for rump rod and its two helpers in handling and smoothness. Dr. Steven Shiver says. My heart goes out to you that lack my hard gained insights but have hardened my heat to losing buddies and family along the way, to fast death or decayed brains that ain't really with us anyway. I've almost ended mine when seeing no hope of change ok, I know I'm on borrowed time with limited number of week ends left. I know I ride close to death and destruction each instant I'm on two wheels, I think about life and my wife, and dead ghost riders who whisper in my ear before every lean and each throttle decision. Since this post is about one who is missing out, just think how that feels to me whose hobby next decade is going too fast to have time/space for fear. I'll turn 60 orbits when ole Sol swings into Scorpio this November. IF I live long enough will publish caveman DIY summary, until then squirm and suffer under an AMA medical model.

I will duct tape major joints for some antics but no longer fear dangling limbs if still attached by some skin, nerves and vessels. I fear spinal and brain injury for real, if that is not involved then you would have no old age recovery issues, so put that in your pipe and smoke it on the way to filling Medicine Dr's patent potions and sniffing at mere symptoms of degenerative joint and organ disease. I'm in a good mood so to me most Dr.s are as smart as my dog sniffing my finger pointing to a coon in the tree...

To Lengthen Thy Life Stretch Thy Neck.
To Toughen Thou Life, Eat Rocks.

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I understand Steve, but when the age anxiety gets into your head, it's hard to cure. All I can do is fight it until the reaper comes. 68 this Armistice day, and there's no smokin' here. That doesn't take me anywhere.

Dave
69S
 
Hi calbigbird, not much of a ride but one I'm sure you know well. This morning I saw a pet adoption group was showing dogs in Trabuco canyon so that's the excuse I used to ride through Santiago, then left at Cooks corner on to Oak canyon where the trees have grown togeather at the tops to form a nice tunnel then out to Plano Trabuco to see some cute puppies. ( and the women who brought them). I thought about going on through Laguna canyon to the beach or down Antonio and over Ortega Highway but I told my pal Rich who himself is still recovering from surgery on both shoulders due to a crash 4 months ago that Id'e drive us to the movies so he could get out. If you think your in bad shape, he broke the Ball of his right shoulder OFF and destroyed his left. Many more months to go. Hope you get better soon, when you do let's go for a real ride togeather. Meanwhile keep dreaming, Glenn.
 
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