Just a quick summary.
Left shoulder - fucked
Right shoulder - fucked
Lower back - fucked
Neck/nape - fucked
Knees - fucked
Right ankle - fucked
Left calf - fucked
Right calf - fucked
Eyes - fucked
Teeth - fucked
Left kidney - fucked
Stomach - fucked
Blood pressure - fucked
Hearing - fucked
It might have been easier to list the bits that aren't fucked.
After @MooN's mishap putting a bike on a centre stand .......
.....it got me thinking that this place is getting like some sort of military field hospital with the state on everybody.
In my case I've had bad knees for over 30 years......stretched MCL's due to stupid sports in my youth. But it's not a case of they've particularly got worse.....more a case of the rest of me has got worse around them due to advancing years.
So where I could compensate for them to some degree in the past, it's getting harder all the time to do that now I'm 66. Which is why I've got to get a lighter bike very soon.
However, I am lucky inasmuch as I don't suffer from arthritis......I always figured I'd be riddled with it in old age because of the way I bombarded my body with impacts in my youth. But nothing!
But I am partly deaf in one ear due to wind noise on bikes over the years.......and I need to wear glasses all the time now.
So.....that's my liabilities at the present time......just got to work round them as best I can!
So what's your current situation in terms of physical problems? And we don't need to know your mental problems.....or we'll be here all fucking day!
Not when it's moving. I dropped it today trying to park on what I thought was level enough ground. When I went to move it to a better spot the back end span round and deposited me on the ground. Bike was sat at about 45 degrees so easy enough to right it. Fortunately no damage to me or the bike.
But don't tell anybody! ?
I had a GS650 Dakar some years ago, took it to the Spanish Pyrenees and it averaged 71mpg, that included doing trails. It was the one with the twin-plug head, better performance and mpg.
The downside to it was the front end, very soft suspension. A lot guys coverted then to Yamaha forks or KTM.
They probably can’t cope too well with emission regulations of today, I think.
To be honest, I would go for a twin everyday unless it was a dirt specific bike.
I got some really bad bug bites the other week, they were they worst I've ever had. Thought perhaps I might start to mutate after a week....and oh....ummmm Sorry, that's all I have for now. ?
What have you come to terms with.......being a part of a group of complete fucking twats?
You'd probably still have a full head of hair if you hadn't PM'd me on ButtRider in 2004 to ask my opinion on Transalps.
Well I have to see a consultant soon (been postponed for 6 months due to Covid) about another op on my leg to try and cure the phantom limb pain . If I have the op it will be my 11th but unless he truly convinces me that they can get it right I may not bother. It will mean another 6 months on crutches and I feel like I'm losing riding time day by day as it is ?
I’ve got a shit left knee that has some sort of fluid leaking, occasionally it causes some acute pain. Right one gives me a signal sometimes but after the diagnosis on the left it’s better to not look at the right one too closely or I might get worried.