This wasn't recent, but goes to show the versatility of a sidecar. 🙂
(they're run through the cargo rack and strapped down)
What a day!! Joan and I left the house at 7:00 this morning to meet Harold and Doris Short and Al Ohme for a trip to Devils Tower. We met a new USCA member, Kenny Wasserburger and friend Stephanie, in Sundance, WY. He led the convoy of 4 rigs to Devils Tower and back to Spearfish Canyon. Al got to see some of the roads that we have the opportunity to ride during the Monumental Rally next June. I won't speek for him but he seemed favorably impressed. We rode about 280 miles and the weather was gorgeous - for October in this part of the country.
Yep, what Will said! Beautiful roads, beautiful weather, good company and no mechanical failures... it doesn't get any better.
Obligated break for a couple of days, Yesterday dismantling the gear box of the shop van with the impact bearing extractor I took a chunk of meat out of my hand. So obeying the doc's order I am out of work and riding for some days. It was funny how the hand cramped within minutes using the throttle just with the finger tips.
First nice sunset in weeks observed from my rocking chair. Until now I am happy not to note any swelling nor infection...cross my fingers that the wound stays clean. (I am just happy that it didn't happen at any of my special clients with biologic hazard, but in an ordinary car repair shop)
It first comes different then second you think... :O
There is no bad that doesn't come for good! 😉
Soon somebody will come up with that the only thing I am good for would be ground meat.
Sven
PS, nice trick, use the phone for to take a photo and watch it later in the PC. With my glasses I wasn't able to view the details like the finger prints...time for new glasses. 🙂
Don't suck on it. That won't help even if it does make it feel better.
The hand was black from grease and the meat poundered so badly that it looked like ground burger patty.
I cut off those parts that were impossible to rescue and would have only caused more infection. Until now I am happy to have a clean wound. Only the doc blamed me for cutting off that flesh...hey perhaps in Europe it wouldn't matter, but we live in the tropics and bacteria are everywhere just looking for a victim...
Twice hospital bacteria had me at the edge with a very close call. some lost meat doesn't matter then.
Living on gifted (granted?) time.
Sven 😉
PS: probably that is the reason why I do not like at all the skull fetish like above...anyhow a good joke to get the skeleton out of college onto the street. A skeleton too should have the right to have fun. 😉
Ouch!! Sven, heal fast and find better ways to have fun that don't hurt or open yourself to infections!!!
Hello Tom, thanks for the wishes...
isn't rig riding in high mountain range like living on the edge all the time?
There is always the change for a final free flight! Or that heaven strikes you on your head with some "small" stones
http://www.sidecar.com/mbbs22/photos/show-album.asp?albumid=368&photoid=2159
Adrenaline is what makes you feel alive!
As Grandma Meta said:"It is not important how long you live, but how intensive!"
Enjoy every moment.
Sven
You're right, of course, Sven. But it's better on the days with no injuries...
Stay in the house makes for a very long boring day...
shortened it a bit with:
Good memories came up.
Now good night and thanks for the wishes.
Sven
Could be worse. Good mood also helps in healing, Sven, and we know that you know it 🙂
I haven't been here for weeks. I probably live something too intensive last time.
My beloved dog Delma is ending up, she doesn't feel any hurt, only light touch. So I must inspect her and heel some smaler hurts. She even had surgery without any pain killers, not needed. Now I must "feel" for two lives. I'm affraid about winter. Everything says that winter will be hard. And then frostbites may eat Delma without any feedback from her.
Few months without sidecar, and doing everything just to save some money. I had opportunity to buy big amount of '60-70s (but brand-new) tools and toolbits. Some of them I have spare for whole workshop life 🙂
I Partially rebuilt my Simson Duo trike, but the project has to wait until spring. Now I prepare sidecar rig, as it's way more practical in winter. Duo will be my rain-time vechicle.
Best wishes for all
Igor
Do not leave Delma outside in bitter cold too long. Let her do her business and come back in to a warm fireside. I know how you feel. The last Beagle from our show days is 15 and slowing down. Always hard to let them go.
My TGB needs some work before I can get back to ridin.
We left home at 8:45AM on Saturday. It was 33 degrees F. We rode to Quimby, IA to join some friends for a ride to the western Iowa loess hills. This was to have been a leaf color ride, but we were too early for peak color. It was a great day anyway. There were some terrific vistas from hill tops looking out over the Missouri River bottom, and across tributary river valleys to the hills and bluffs on the other side.
We had lunch at the Old Home Fill 'er Up and Keep on Trucking Café in Pisgah, IA and took a cider and apple pie break at Small's Fruit Farm. We linked up to US 30 near Logan and rode northeastward to Dunlap before heading back toward Cherokee. We stopped at Anthon for dinner, even though most of us weren't really hungry yet.
Though a few split off from the group at Correctionville, IA to go home, the rest of us were riding in a column in the dark up IA 31 toward Washta when we heard a call over the CB radio, "Deer. They're hurt". We turned around and found one couple on a Goldwing/Motor Trike rig had hit a large buck deer, demolishing the fairing, front fender, radiators, and breaking the right rear fender. They had carried the dead deer on the front wheel and forks for about 100 feet before the deer fell off. The trike remained upright and the riders stayed on the bike. The rider strained both shoulders and was not thinking clearly, and his wife suffered broken bones in the lower right leg. Most of us remained to help control traffic and to assist the EMTs in loading the pair onto ambulances to go to Sioux City to be evaluated and treated. One of our group is from Quimby, a few miles north of Washta, and he went to get his trailer. We loaded the damaged trike on the trailer. It was 11:35PM when we arrived home and it was getting pretty chilly again.
c64club - 10/13/2014 10:18 AM
Could be worse. Good mood also helps in healing, Sven, and we know that you know it 🙂
I haven't been here for weeks. I probably live something too intensive last time.
My beloved dog Delma is ending up, she doesn't feel any hurt, only light touch. So I must inspect her and heel some smaler hurts. She even had surgery without any pain killers, not needed. Now I must "feel" for two lives. I'm affraid about winter. Everything says that winter will be hard. And then frostbites may eat Delma without any feedback from her.Few months without sidecar, and doing everything just to save some money. I had opportunity to buy big amount of '60-70s (but brand-new) tools and toolbits. Some of them I have spare for whole workshop life 🙂
I Partially rebuilt my Simson Duo trike, but the project has to wait until spring. Now I prepare sidecar rig, as it's way more practical in winter. Duo will be my rain-time vechicle.
Best wishes for all
Igor
sorry to hear about delma,wishing her the best, what breed is she? how old?
Tax man, a boy scout day.
That makes s life living worth.
Let's hope the bones heal well and fast.
On, on.
Sven
