Riding while sick?

**MrMelon** · 15th December 2006, 19:49

Psuedoephedrine. Take a quick trip to your chemist and you'll be sussed for 4 or 5 hours

**crashe** · 15th December 2006, 19:51

Originally Posted by Scorpygirl

I often sneeze in the helmet!!! Sorry about that Rhino!!!

ewwwwwwwwwww the back of Rhino's jacket....... ewwwwwwwwwwww

PS: good luck hunting for the right pair of gloves tomorrow...
Im off VIRAGO parts hunting..... in crummer Rd.

**Shadows** · 16th December 2006, 00:34

Originally Posted by Clivoris

Ephidrine.

Originally Posted by MrMelon

Psuedoephedrine. Take a quick trip to your chemist and you'll be sussed for 4 or 5 hours

Good luck. None of the fuckers will sell it to me. Last time I ended up with some impotent hydroxypoxysomethingorother shit.
What a fucken waste of money that was... and after it wouldn't work on the runny proboscis I couldn't even make a single flake of meth out of the rest!

**Shadows** · 16th December 2006, 00:41

Originally Posted by Drum

Can't help really, but I once went diving with a shocker of a hangover and...............nah, you dont want to know!

Spewing at 80 feet is rally hard eh? Getting carrot cubes and corn stuck in your reg is not a good thing either. Really makes you wish that you chewed your food a bit better. Its best to take your reg out and catch up with your breathing in between hurling sessions, and here, timing is everything!

**Babelfish** · 16th December 2006, 01:37

ephidrine = www.bodybuilding.com sent to you as vitamins...well they used to...but you run the customs gambit so dont make a habit of it

**Drum** · 16th December 2006, 07:45

Originally Posted by Shadmeister

Good luck. None of the fuckers will sell it to me. Last time I ended up with some impotent hydroxypoxysomethingorother shit.

The key is to ask for just the one packet at a time. Doesn't help pulling up on the hog and being dressed in leathers either!

**lb99** · 16th December 2006, 08:00

buying sudafed or the likes, I always get ID'd but hey, when you rock up on a bike leathered up and ask for some restricted medicines then you have to be prepared to arouse some suspicion.

**WINJA** · 16th December 2006, 08:51

Originally Posted by placidfemme

Does anyone have any suggestions for riding with a runny nose?

I started to feel sick on Tuesday with a sore throat... and thought that was all... it started to hurt more on wednesday and Thursday... woke up this morning and it wasn't too bad... so I rode to work... as I got to the bridge I started sneezing like crazy and had to open my visor in fear of anything being expelled on the inside of my visor...

Now my nose is running like crazy and I'm not looking forward to the ride home without the ability to wipe my nose every 3 seconds...

I THOUGHT DYKES WERENT MEANT TO BE DOUBLE HARD BASTARDS , IM STARTING TO THINK YOU BECAME A DYKE JUST TO ANNOY MUM AND DAD AND YOUR HEART REALLY ISNT IN IT, HARDEN UP BITCH AND SUCK IT IN

**bex** · 16th December 2006, 09:38

A couple of years ago while living in UK, Ceebie and I decided that a long weekend in France would be a nice idea (as you do!). We rode down from Northampton to Portsmouth and caught the ferry across to Cherbourg. I was riding pillion on the ZX9 so you can imagine it wasn't as comfortable as it could have been! Before we embarked on this trip I was feeling a bit headachy and generally unwell but I chose to ignore it. Bad idea!!! By the time we arrived at our destination I was feeling absolutely awful. A full blown flu like I'd never had before....body aches, raging temp, head ache etc.
I spent the weekend in bed feeling utterly miserable while Ceebie had fun riding around the back roads of Brittany getting stopped by French police for speeding,and falling off into corn fields (another story!!).
Sunday evening I had to drag myself from my sickbed, don my leathers and climb onto the back of the ZX9 to ride over 200km to Cherbourg to catch the late night ferry over to Portsmouth.
The worse part of the ride was arriving back in England at midnight and having to ride up the A34 back to Northampton. I was absolutely freezing, my whole body was wracked with pain and I spent the whole 200kms crying. It took all my concentration just to stay on the bike... I was in a kind of delirious state, almost drifting in and out of semi consciousness.
When we arrived home I had to spend at least 30 minutes in a hot shower just to thaw out before going to bed. I was so ill I had to take the rest of that week off from work.
So much for a relaxing weekend break!!

**Madmax** · 16th December 2006, 16:02

try glandular fever the shit wont go away
i now have fucked kidnees and can not even walk
I was riding for about 2 weeks and just thought i had the flue!
when it stopped me in my tracks! i fell of in a car park
good fun for chrismas

**James Deuce** · 16th December 2006, 16:34

Been there Madmax, no friggin fun. Had it twice in the last year. Now have a negative leave balance, and a couple of hospital tags to show for it.

I've given up riding when I feel even a little bit sick. Every accident I've had in the last 5 years is directly attributable to not being 100%.

**Madmax** · 16th December 2006, 16:59

i was lying on my side thinking that was dumb
and why didnt my leg work
the lady who owned the shop
got her son to ride my bike home
while they took me home
(fucken good people)
had to get an ambo later though

**Brett** · 16th December 2006, 19:38

I remember, when i first got my zxr i had a really really bad cold, and had the running nose issue. Balled up tissues and plugged my noce with them. Worked...sort of. Felt like a twat.

**Brett** · 16th December 2006, 19:39

Originally Posted by Brett

Felt like a twat.

Not literally, I felt like a twat though.

**Shadows** · 17th December 2006, 01:10

Originally Posted by Brett

I remember, when i first got my zxr i had a really really bad cold, and had the running nose issue. Balled up tissues and plugged my noce with them. Worked...sort of. Felt like a twat.

You would have felt like more of a twat if you had used Tampax instead.