i have never gone down, but close... i have had it roll over. stop sign. not my fault. rider bud apologized for weeks...Must have been a good group of guys.
I have a couple bike war stories; there's on two types of riders, those who have been down, and those who are going down.
big project!; lookin' good. samo of for the deer shot, too...Got the 2x4's and the mud flaps removed from the bottom, I hope to use them to make some 7' ramps.
Hopefully I can get the front bottom cleaned up and then I'm ready to set it on top of the frame to moch it up on some boards so I can see where to cut the side 2x8's(and a couple of the cross members) and build little fenders.
Honestly I was very pleased to get all I got done on it today with the heat
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Saw these guys out messing with the frame today lol.
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i have picked thistles out of my knee before!!! lol
3 times bad news!!! my Dad used to climb mountain faces! my Mom saw some pix once and as she told me... upset her so much he quit when she asked him to. guess maybe b4 i had arrived.... maybe i was close. maybe just too young to remember being there. lolI've had some bad ones on the dirt, and some long painful ones on the street. It sucks when all you can do is just surf it out until it eventually catches and sends you tumbling, then you get to look at your bike still sliding/tumbling when you finally stop.
The last one on the road I called my wife to pick me up, being the awesome woman she is she asked me if I wanted her to bring the trailer, I said no, just hurry. When she got there and asked why I didn't want the trailer, I explained that I only had so much time before the adrenaline ran out and I needed to scrub out my wounds lol. She asked me not to ride not long after that one, it was the third time going down that summer and our son was 1, not sure why me doing wheelies past the van at 70+ was a problem, maybe it was when they didn't go so well
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A friend from school and his father are both paralyzed waist down from dirt bike accidents
He's a real go getter though, you should see his off-road wheelchair, looks like this one except better quality/ more H/D.
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gardens don't like shade... unless it's 104f out!!!
I spent most of my youth racing MX and Enduros and did OK with injuries except for one. Never owned a street bike but I was a motorcycle mechanic and got my fill of street riding testing the bikes I worked on, especially intermittent problems.
In MX I broke or cracked something in my left shoulder. Enduro in the Jersey Pine Barrons I broke a bone in my hand hitting a tree. Super tight trail and we would put 26" wide bars on the bikes for Jersey.
Enduro in North PA I came across a rider down with severe hip pain. Not much I could do and eventually others stopped to help including a trail sweeper. So I take off and start riding over my head to make up time. Hit a rock which shoots me into the woods where I hit a tree. So now I'm on the ground squirming with severe hip pain. This happened on top of a mountain and it took the ambulance crew over an hour to hike up to me. The trip back down in a basket was horrible even with morphine. I get wheeled into my room at the little hospital and laying in the other bed was the guy I stopped for, also with a broken hip. The doctor on call was an equestrian who hated dirt bikes. He was out riding his horse and had to be called into the hospital. I swear he was pushing and pulling on us just to create pain and being verbally abusive.
A better day.
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my Dad used to take me to the dirt circle races over in the UK. had a friend who raced sidecars bikes. hard core guys. i remember the plumes of their fuel... Dad said, he runs ok but never wins. every once in a while he gets a wild hair up..... and comes in first!That's awesome, not the accident/ hospital part
I figured such with your username
Back in the late 70s iirc (maybe early 80s), my buddies dad won a lot of woods races on a 490 Maico. One time we were Messing around with it and tipped it over, it was everything we could do to stand it back up.
i hate to jump ahead on this thread! some really swell pix here...
thinking i mite go get some today....
should handle most mowing and cutting needs!
how did u do that? schrader valve?Got the rough opening for the tires to clear cut out today. Also removed some of the decking as I'm going to need to cut some off, and then I'll be cutting the dovetail off.
Would have gotten more done, but I let the smoke out of my buddies 50yr old saw.
One time I fired it up to help cool it down and it blew out a ball of fire.
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I was thinking about replacing it with this one, I think it's the exact same one
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60" with rider comfort system... add a few more thou....
i need to cut more wood! just not wearing out my chains fast enuff!
good start - but, no plated pix?
ideal conditions: 4-6 acrs an hour!! 60"'r....I'd really like another exmark, I buy them used so I don't have the same sticker shock as many do. It was a bummer I sold mine, but I'm sure it won't be long until I have another, just need to be patient. My exmark's have done great on hills, but if the grass is wet, you may want to wait if you could slide into anything unwanted
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my lil Echo....
