coming together nicely Veg!
Hope you planning on regular ride reports with heaps of pics for all your adoring fans?
Eat Sheep
coming together nicely Veg!
Hope you planning on regular ride reports with heaps of pics for all your adoring fans?
....wherezz that track go
Hardcore Biker
That's also on the plan...I've just bought a small windows transformer PC from ASUS (T100). Really neat machine as its a touchscreen tablet with a solid keyboard attachment option. This ensures that I have USB ports as well as the standard MicroSD so connecting cameras, phones and even the 690 to a computer is easy.Originally Posted by Night Falcon
That computer is small like a netbook, with great battery life...but is also a full windows 8.1 machine meaning software and app's are easy to install etc.
I have basecamp running for managing maps, have already downloaded all the US maps from the http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/
All GPSkevin tracks and waypoints
EFI/mapping software and cable for connecting bike
so its all going well...
...back in the saddle, and getting a little!
Hardcore Biker
What a bastard indeed.
Because I am having some time off to get stuff done and prepare for my trip, I've been helping people out...and this time, it has caught me out.
A mate wanted his boy to buy a here in Wellington and since they live in Auckalofa, they asked if I could ride it, check it, do the money transfer and then help send it on bike transport....because I'm a good guy, I said yes.
The short version of the story is that we completed the transaction and was lifting the bike on the trailer (WR250). We didn't have a ramp so did the ol' MX lift by getting the front wheel on first and then lifting the rear. Me and the seller were doing well until he pushed and I lifted and !@#$%^...my thumb got caught in one of the fucking sharp holes on the sprocket and the swingarm...BAM, and the clean chop was done.
Being my right hand and right thumb...it couldn't have been a more important finger. I found the bit and got driven to hospital relatively quickly...yet they were very busy. It was deemed that the amount of finger missing was marginal in its length for reattachment so want to crimp it off during surgery later on.
Fortunately, the delay in surgery gave me and the Doctors some time to talk, and since the finger was amputated clean off a few mm's above the nail bed...I really wanted to try and keep the nail. A ugly nail is still better than no nail. The first plan was to make it a bit shorter still and give me a nub without the nail...but the agreed process based on more learnings of how amazing the finger is at healing...we have opted for a slower, more painful process which is to let it heal itself!. They reckon, that because I'm a non-smoker, healthy, and still have nail bed...it should regrow enough.
...back in the saddle, and getting a little!
Talentless Tryhard!
Well bugger.
I'm no gynaecologist, however I would be happy to take a look......................
Eat Sheep
yikes....bad luck seems to coincide with KTM ownership I've discovered, by contrast though, your fortunate not to be a professional hitch hiker
Hardcore Biker
nothing to do with KTM' bro...stinking WR's!
BUT while this has put everything on hold...it is growing. That photo was from 5 weeks ago now. check out the growth rings. I'm a bloody salamander
week 1
week 2
week 3
They said that the finger is amazing at growing, you just need to keep it in these modern dressings that act like a second skin. It keeps all the fluid and goodness to help grow skin/flesh, it allows vapour (and odour) to escape so it can breath etc.
While it's bummer....I do heal well - I've had enough practise at it!!!
...back in the saddle, and getting a little!
Eat Sheep
what if it grows back longer? will that mean new gloves Veg of just 1 thumbless one?
Forum whore
Ouch!
Hope the recovery is quick and as pain free as it can be (I bet you are popping some big pills!)
Hardcore Biker
Can't imagine the pain that really must have hurt, had a couple of minor cuts on my thumb while away on bike recently in OZ which took two weeks to even start healing and made everything a Bastod to do on the bike or simply banging them was bad enough. Similar story had to do it before I was 50 and the wife said go for it, good luck with the recovery and realizing your dreams.
Hardcore Biker
I'll trim the Alpinestar gortex glove, or the finger...what ever causes the less pain. Somehow I don't think length is going to be the problem!.
If anything, it should be close to being the same length or a fraction shorter. When the tidied the thumb up in the surgery...the basically nibbled the bone down a bit further as the cut was so clean, the fleshy sides couldn't cover the bone. With the bone now a bit shorter, the could throw a few stitches in there to pull the sides together so that the bone would have some protection, and ultimately, aid in the healing.
The only positive thing is that having a shorther thumb makes my cock look like it has more girth ...hah!!!
...back in the saddle, and getting a little!
Hardcore Biker
yeah...thanks for that. While it has been sore, i don't think its the worst pain I've had. I think because it was all trimmed off in a microsecond, the body seems to know how to cope. Interestingly though, just panadol and ibuprofen have worked fantastically.
I tried other stuff, but really didn't make much difference...and bourbon is better BUT just gotter be careful when going to grab for a refill.
...back in the saddle, and getting a little!
Hardcore Biker
Fanx...I think I'm used to being in pain...for one, I'm married with kids :-D. The first week, I had it bandaged heaps to protect it, but during the second week, I seemed to instinctively grab too many times, especailly during the night. I think I must twitch, grab and flinch throughout the night and wake myself up, and bandages didn't help due to be simply moving it against the dressings.
In a wierd way, I'm pleased they didn't try and stitch the bit back on, as I reckon I would have whacked it off by now.
It's highly likely that the TAT won't happen this year, as the timing is all going out the window BUT, like yourself, I have a mate in Aussie who said come over, ride his bikes and have a smaller adventure over there, so as soon as I am able...I'll go over there.
Where did you go?, was Aussie good...or just really, really big.
...back in the saddle, and getting a little!
Hardcore Biker
Me too 4 of the suckers (kids that is) Sydney, Bathurst, inland north, Byron Bay, then west in a straightish wiggly route to the west coast, just wanted to see a few highlights, on the way, yes its a huge interesting place, roads are long and straight, had a route planned but no stops planned so rode as long as i wanted then looked for a camp before dark, longest day 810 kms, think if i was with a group i would have free camped more than i did but enjoyed the freedom riding solo. Met some great people travelers and locals, bikers and nomads. From what ive read about the TAT it looks more interesting terrain than OZ but i did go through the flat centre which has its own beauty and im know there is far more to see around the coasts.
Hardcore Biker
Vegeman so sorry to see this. You poor man. So not how a good deed should end upnothing to do with KTM' bro...stinking WR's!
BUT while this has put everything on hold...it is growing. That photo was from 5 weeks ago now. check out the growth rings. I'm a bloody salamander
week 1
week 2
week 3
They said that the finger is amazing at growing, you just need to keep it in these modern dressings that act like a second skin. It keeps all the fluid and goodness to help grow skin/flesh, it allows vapour (and odour) to escape so it can breath etc.
While it's bummer....I do heal well - I've had enough practise at it!!!
Amazing to see the growth in the finger.
Takecare.
If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride !
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