fiasco Andrew Steere Junior Moderator Location: South Central Nude Hamster Join Date: 12/29/2005 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 2,008 Rally Car: too rich for my blood, share a LeMons car |
Hope you're getting some OT/PT. A good OT who specializes in hand/wrist work can do wonders (so says the guy who cut five tendons off his right wrist with a circular saw, and the biggest drawback ended up being the inability to flip somebody off properly with that hand). Gotta work that scar tissue to keep it in check, or getting the mobility back gets more difficult. I should've kept up my exercises on my own longer after the OT $$$ ran out. Andrew Steere Lyndeborough, NH KB1PJY |
b00sted David Barrett Mega Moderator Location: Chicago, IL Join Date: 10/21/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 216 |
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john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Professional Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Why? Why voluntarily saddle oneself with some engine that is so poorly designed it needs all kinds of junk that superior engines don't even need? And, unlike those engines with all the etraneous junk like cams and valves and valve springs, the superior engine you had fires every time the piston goes up instead of occasionally, every now and then...talk about an incruable chronic misfire? Ever wonder why for a given engine size and power level those expensive things with all that extra junk has to rev more or less twice as much to make the same power? Such a nice bike and you sold it..... John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
mothra Matt Smith Infallible Moderator Location: Wilmington NC Join Date: 03/31/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 546 Rally Car: xr4ti |
I have been riding Adventure bikes for years. They are fat pigs when you push them offroad. I picked this up this up last night.
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/ustida3gl50z862/AACwyQdWDD0tADP1WZ5w5InXa It's a bit lighter than my BMW dakar Matt Smith Racing in glorious black and red My daily life is a Saab story (sold!) |
urr Andrew Sutherland Infallible Moderator Location: Studio City CA / Camas WA Join Date: 02/22/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 275 Rally Car: Subaru, EVO, Honda, Husky |
Good bike! I had one for a hot minute, even did a rally moto event on it... |
urr Andrew Sutherland Infallible Moderator Location: Studio City CA / Camas WA Join Date: 02/22/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 275 Rally Car: Subaru, EVO, Honda, Husky |
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mothra Matt Smith Infallible Moderator Location: Wilmington NC Join Date: 03/31/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 546 Rally Car: xr4ti |
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deaner Dane Aura Professional Moderator Location: Caldwell, ID Join Date: 07/07/2013 Age: Settling Down Posts: 346 Rally Car: PS4 controller |
Been busy with motorciccles for awhile. Entered my first enduro ooooooh about 2 weeks ago? 50 miles of tight, bar banging single track. On top of me sucking in the thick trees(really should lob an inch off my bars lol) it was a mudfest. Black dirt and raaaaaaain. Plus it was routed through some "normally" dry marshland that filled right up with all the rain we've had this year. Sweet Jesus mud bog!!!! Waste deep holes that went on for about a hundred feet each and the ones that had "lily pads" across em were pretty much worthless. After almost losing it over the first "lily pad" crossing, I opted to downshift and just pin it through the mid/water haha. The 3rd one I realized why they had them! Still surprised I didn't drown the bike out on that one......2 feet of water on top of a foot of mud. Anyhow, at about the 34 mile mark I houred out and my day was done. Talk about a trial by fire!
Ran my second one yesterday and ended up finishing second in my class. Got a trophy and I guess actually took 1st because the guy that beat me won "C" overall and was pulled out of the class, so I got bumped up. Works for me! Boosts the ego anyhow to come home with a 1st place trophy haha. The trails couldn't have been any more perfect yesterday. Little bit of moisture with lots of grip and no soft spots! I could tell the trail designers wanted us to pay for the couple of freebie quad trails they had to use in the second to last section because the last 10 mile section was nothing but trail clearing. Beat to hell, ping ponging off trees, feeling very greatful for having a nice pair of bark busters haha. If you'd have asked me yesterday if I was planning on running the next one I would have made up some excuse or hee'd and hawed with maybes or I'll have to check my time off. This morning? Yup! I'll be there! Haha 2 weeks til the next one! |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Professional Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
For me my last half-serious bike race was 182 miles in the woods in one day + 10 miles----5 laps @ 2miles a lap around a lengthened moto-cross track.. I thought it was "a good fun day in the woods" 4th 500 A class..4th best "special test" score OA.. I lurv bikes in the woods. Now you may see why I say sitting on one's ass in a nice comfy low powered car is easy...and how I am thunderstruck that events need 3-4 days to do easy 120 miles. What the fuck? John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
NoCoast Grant Hughes Godlike Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
Take that 182 enduro and every ten or twenty miles give a one hour break and see how much more tiring it is. Not saying we shouldn't be able to do more miles in a day and rally, just that it's the hurry up and wait followed by a huge adrenalin rush followed by a drop and boredom followed by another rush. Up and down and up and down. Grant Hughes |
deaner Dane Aura Professional Moderator Location: Caldwell, ID Join Date: 07/07/2013 Age: Settling Down Posts: 346 Rally Car: PS4 controller |
I couldn't imagine running that type of mileage in a day.... I'm still pretty new too though and 50-60 miles kicks the crap out of me haha. The first enduro I ran didn't have really any connecting roads/trails/etc and was one giant tree dodging loop. It's amazing how even a few hundred yards of easy trail or a fire road, gives you a breather and a rest. Helps the mind clear a bit... aaaaand then right back into the trees haha.
Long breaks are the worst! I don't have any experience with cars but sitting around waiting for your row to leave sucks! This last one I made fuel stop damn near on my minute. The organizers put the fuel stop right before a 20mi section and planned it to give a us a nice break.... Yeah, almost 45minutes of muscles tightening up and sitting around. When you're beat, it's almost easier to ride than it is to walk around or pick your bike up haha. I'm excited to revalve the suspension on my YZ to see what it does to my pace when I get tired. It's sprung heavy on stock valving and is an ass kicker in the rocks and roots. Goes like hell on the fast whooped stuff though lol. |
Clayto Clayton McCrary Infallible Moderator Location: Olympia,WA Join Date: 07/04/2013 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 161 Rally Car: XRatty purchased. Now build it!! |
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Wannabe Anne Francis Junior Moderator Location: Seattle, WA Join Date: 09/04/2011 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 235 |
7 years old I took my first spill on 2 wheels hit the brakes on a new bike in a gravel driveway fell chin forward broke both jaws, plastic surgery as a child the whole works. 20 years later on a Honda Elite scooter tooling around my college campus I was side smashed in an intersection bumps on my head still. I know men don't like taking driving advice but I'm just saying' I wouldn't even ride a bike in "Fall City", not even in September, October or November …. |
urr Andrew Sutherland Infallible Moderator Location: Studio City CA / Camas WA Join Date: 02/22/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 275 Rally Car: Subaru, EVO, Honda, Husky |
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Wannabe Anne Francis Junior Moderator Location: Seattle, WA Join Date: 09/04/2011 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 235 |
I can adopt you if you want, I've been known to take in strays and nurture them to health. Take it easy and make sure you are not further creating inflammation around the injury site. If you smoke you should stop and if you haven't been in CA long you may be deficient in vitamin D and might want to consider supplements to help strengthen for the next fall. Take care Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2014 09:42PM by Wannabe. |