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Blakamin
16th October 2004, 19:34
Sorry all about TOTW... have been ejected temporarily from my house because i'm going out to buy a friggin ducati tomorrow... motomart better be open!!! if it aint.... i might buy something else... have $10000 to spend.... sparky bill... wake the boss up!!!!!



($10000 without trade-in) :niceone: :niceone:

riffer
16th October 2004, 19:41
How the hell did you swing that one Blakamin you jammy bugger?

Bonez
16th October 2004, 20:15
Sorry all about TOTW... have been ejected temporarily from my house because i'm going out to buy a friggin ducati tomorrow... motomart better be open!!! if it aint.... i might buy something else... have $10000 to spend.... sparky bill... wake the boss up!!!!!



($10000 without trade-in) :niceone: :niceone:
Take a deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep breath and think about the purchase you're going to make :msn-wink: Good luck.

dhunt
16th October 2004, 21:19
Sorry all about TOTW... have been ejected temporarily from my house because i'm going out to buy a friggin ducati tomorrow... motomart better be open!!! if it aint.... i might buy something else... have $10000 to spend.... sparky bill... wake the boss up!!!!!



($10000 without trade-in) :niceone: :niceone:
Did you win the lottery or something??? Man I wish I days like that where I woke up with a pocket full of $$$$$

SPORK
16th October 2004, 21:29
I'm not sure, but I have been getting hints that I might be coming into money from relitives maybe...

New bike on the list (hopefullys) :D

I hope... A CBR250RR sure is looking tasty

Blakamin
17th October 2004, 15:47
Good stuff madcat!

....got in trouble for even mention buying a bike, but still made her drive me to motomart today! :niceone: .... woulda been nice if they were open...they coulda had my $$$$... looks like they will get it tomorrow instead! :whistle:

Blakamin
17th October 2004, 15:49
Did you win the lottery or something??? Man I wish I days like that where I woke up with a pocket full of $$$$$
I didnt even get 1 number... just realised, due to my cousin about to have a foot chopped off, that lifes to short and i have a pre-approved loan i havent thought about... as aerosmith once sang "lifes a journey, not a destination"

I could die tomorrow...might as well live the dream!

k14
17th October 2004, 16:15
I didnt even get 1 number... just realised, due to my cousin about to have a foot chopped off, that lifes to short and i have a pre-approved loan i havent thought about... as aerosmith once sang "lifes a journey, not a destination"

I could die tomorrow...might as well live the dream!

Yip that is a fucking good point there blakamin. Make the best of now as you never know when its going to end.

Blakamin
17th October 2004, 16:20
Yip that is a fucking good point there blakamin. Make the best of now as you never know when its going to end.
Cheers K14.... the worst bit is he's only 30 :mad:

StoneChucker
17th October 2004, 20:27
lifes a journey, not a destination
Exactly, why the hell do you think I bought my bike!!!!! It's also financed, but I could die of a heart attack tomorrow, or NOW even :blah:

BLAKAMIN, you have to come show me your new toy...

Mr Skid
17th October 2004, 20:36
Are you going to get a set of laser engraved ducati sun glasses to match your purchase?

You know for $10,000 you could probably paint your cbr a nice colour :Pokey:

2_SL0
17th October 2004, 20:38
I dont mean to pry and if you dont wish to answer the question I understand. But why is your cousin getting his foot removed?

gav
17th October 2004, 21:41
A $10K Ducati? :confused: What are you looking at, a dodgy 600 or something? your CBR will have more power ;) for that sort of money you could get a pretty good VTR1000 :yeah:

Blakamin
18th October 2004, 06:44
I dont mean to pry and if you dont wish to answer the question I understand. But why is your cousin getting his foot removed?
Diabetes
:mellow:

2_SL0
18th October 2004, 11:05
Not much to say, but, bummer :( These things can hit anyone. Best to live life to the fullest.

10 k, wouldnt that get a nice near newish r6. :) . (thinking aloud) I have preapproval from the wife when the time is right to purchase my next bike. (R6, or a R6)

NhuanH
18th October 2004, 11:26
Diabetes
:mellow:

sheeeeite - can you tell us if it's type 1 or type 2 that the poor fella's got?

Just that I'm type 1 and only on the weekend it emerged that David Lange is in final stage renal failure as a result of diabetes. I've never thought too much about the occasional high glucose reading, but it's becoming topical innit.... :shit:

PS. sorry for the thread hijack :pinch:

Cajun
18th October 2004, 11:30
sheeeeite - can you tell us if it's type 1 or type 2 that the poor fella's got?

Just that I'm type 1 and only on the weekend it emerged that David Lange is in final stage renal failure as a result of diabetes. I've never thought too much about the occasional high glucose reading, but it's becoming topical innit.... :shit:

PS. sorry for the thread hijack :pinch:

my dad has diabetes had it for 30 years, he has no feeling in his feet now days,

Blakamin
18th October 2004, 14:54
He's had it for 28 years...since he was 2... type one insulin dependant... he is also on Peritoneal dialysis due to kidny failure :disapint:

vifferman
18th October 2004, 15:03
He's had it for 28 years...since he was 2... type one insulin dependant... he is also on perrenial dialysis due to kidny failure :disapint:That would be APD = Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis?
My Dad was a guinea pig for that, back in 77/78. He was also diabetic, and almost completely blind, and also deaf from the meds they gave him to fight infection from the APD. Luckily, his legs/feet weren't bad enough to be amputated, but everything else was pretty much stuffed before he died. :disapint:

Paul in NZ
18th October 2004, 15:11
I've been type 1 for 11 years or so (maybe more, must check) with nothing much in the way of complications thus far....

It can be a lottery (the complications) but you can do a lot to look after yourself too... It's getting easier as the technology improves but the complications still occur.

I have an interest in Diabetes (obviously) and have just joined the Wellington committee (groan) in an effort to do more.

That's 3 of us here that are type 1 bikers.

We should form a splinter group.

a name?

The Injectors?

Paul N

vifferman
18th October 2004, 15:19
I've been type 1 for 11 years or so (maybe more, must check) with nothing much in the way of complications thus far....

It can be a lottery (the complications) but you can do a lot to look after yourself too... It's getting easier as the technology improves but the complications still occur.Sorry to hear that, Paul.
My father developed diabetes when he was 28, and never managed it particularly well, out of resentment (he was very active and sporty before that) and vanity (he didn't want his work mates to know he was diabetic, I guess.) As a result, he had times when he had wildly fluctuating blood sugar levels, especially on his last overseas trip to France and Germany, when he was very ill), and that contributed markedly to his eyesight deteriorating, and had several bouts of laser surgery to fix broken capilliaries in his eyes.


That's 3 of us here that are type 1 bikers.

We should form a splinter group.

a name?

The Injectors?Better than "The Sugar Plum Fairies" or "The Prix", I guess.:blink:

Blakamin
18th October 2004, 15:20
That would be APD = Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis?

thats the one... tube in the guts

vifferman
18th October 2004, 15:23
thats the one... tube in the gutsYuck. Dad had continual peritonitis with that. He'd go to hospital, get an infection, it'd clear up, he'd come home, he'd get another infection, go back into hospital, etc etc. FWIW, he didn't get infections from when Mum was nursing him. Spent nearly a year in hospital on and off, slowly dying. :spudwhat:

rodgerd
18th October 2004, 15:27
It can be a lottery (the complications) but you can do a lot to look after yourself too... It's getting easier as the technology improves but the complications still occur.


The two that have made me chuckle are the development of blood-sugar sensitive tattoos (so you can get a strip tattooed on and depending on colour you know what your levels are) and a cellphone that you can bleed on and it'll tell you the same thing.

Paul in NZ
18th October 2004, 15:35
The two that have made me chuckle are the development of blood-sugar sensitive tattoos (so you can get a strip tattooed on and depending on colour you know what your levels are) and a cellphone that you can bleed on and it'll tell you the same thing.

bum bugger BLAST... :mad:

I thought I was a freakin' enius figuring out a cellphone with a blood sugar tester built in. Who made it???? I freaking want ONE! :not:

Paul N

Paul in NZ
18th October 2004, 15:59
Sorry to hear that, Paul.


jeeze.. Don't be feeling sorry for me.. I sure as hell don't...

I'm already mentally deficient, ugly as anything and have a major personality defect. Diabetes is the very least of my problems mate... In fact I'll probably live longer with it than without!

I read a few books and chanced on one re the physcology (sp) of the thing and mangaged to get my head around it. (well I think so but..)

Anyway. If anyone wants to PM for info, you know where to find me!

Paul N

Yes, I am full of holes

rodgerd
18th October 2004, 16:16
bum bugger BLAST... :mad:

I thought I was a freakin' enius figuring out a cellphone with a blood sugar tester built in. Who made it???? I freaking want ONE! :not:


Here (http://cellphones.engadget.com/entry/1511741306340486/) you are.

NhuanH
18th October 2004, 16:54
The Injectors?

So currently we could only be a Triumph? What with only 3 injectors and all...who's the udder? - [edit: by further reading and elimination, I'd say rodgerd??]

Back (to hijacked) subject though: I've only known for about 18 months - found out when I totalled my GSXR actually, something good came out of writing off my bike, a car and my tibia. And being new to this thing I am not fazed by seeing readings between 8-10 most of the time - should I be?


Here (http://cellphones.engadget.com/entry/1511741306340486/) you are.

Damn, that's pretty cool, shame it's not one of my beloved Nokias. Next, bring on the slow release/controlled insulin patch, these needles are so 20th century man!

rodgerd
18th October 2004, 19:41
So currently we could only be a Triumph? What with only 3 injectors and all...who's the udder? - [edit: by further reading and elimination, I'd say rodgerd??]


Fortunately not. Needles and I don't get along well (something that causes medical professionals considerable amusement until the first time they stick one in me...)

DarkNinja
19th October 2004, 17:44
You guys may have remembered the RD350 i posted up to get a price on. That was my dad's bike, it will be sad giving it away, anyway he died of diabetes and ive got a high chance of getting it. Blakamin is right, life is far too short, so i might go out and buy me a new bike too, while im still young (17) :blah:
Never give up guys.

Slingshot
20th October 2004, 14:56
Hi Blakamin, congrats on the new bike.

I know the guy who used to own this bike and you'll be pleased to know he looked after it very well.

Have fun

Hitcher
20th October 2004, 16:08
i'm going out to buy a friggin ducati tomorrow... motomart better be open!!! if it aint.... i might buy something else... have $10000 to spend.... sparky bill... wake the boss up!!!!!
Geez there's never anybody around at Motomart. Just wheel one out the door and save yourself $10,000!

SPman
20th October 2004, 17:26
Blakamin is right, life is far too short, so i might go out and buy me a new bike too, while im still young (55)
Bugger me, he's right you know. Think I might not pay the gib stopper who fucked me over and go out and whack a deposit on that Triumph Daytona!