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Post by 542 on Apr 17, 2012 5:44:11 GMT -8
Noticed JB is the only poster lately. Personally I thought it was a shame Big G moved on. [glow=red,2,300][/glow]Such a great guy.[glow=red,2,300][/glow]. Thursday I'm leaving around 11:30 and heading to MMX for a tune up to get ready for the Sierra Club race on 5-4&5 if ya wanna shine work and go call me 775-750-8136.
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Post by larry63r on Apr 17, 2012 16:51:20 GMT -8
I started riding my bicycle on sunday. I iced up my ankle after I was done and it felt OK so I went for another ride today. Starting out slow, I am only riding seven miles at a time and staying on the blacktop. At least I am riding something. I hope to be back on a motorcycle in a month or so. I would like to be able to race again for our international. That will be one year since I first injured my ankle.
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Post by rooster73 on Apr 17, 2012 23:11:47 GMT -8
Big "G" moved on?  ? I didn't know that. I didn't even get invited to the funeral. Sorry to hear he's "moved on". Well, I was thinking about his invites in the past to go riding/racing but, now he's moved on and I won't get the chance. Oh well, maybe I could go to MMX with you 542, as long as I don't get a call that the funeral is the same day........... Rooster |
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Post by 542 on Apr 18, 2012 8:07:38 GMT -8
Well Rooster ya better get your reservation in soon cuz ole 542 has sent his invites out already and as you know ole 542 waits for no man and has many years left before he "moves on".
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Post by 542 on Apr 18, 2012 8:20:49 GMT -8
I started riding my bicycle on sunday. I iced up my ankle after I was done and it felt OK so I went for another ride today. Starting out slow, I am only riding seven miles at a time and staying on the blacktop. At least I am riding something. I hope to be back on a motorcycle in a month or so. I would like to be able to race again for our international. That will be one year since I first injured my ankle. Hey Dick Mann had a compound fracture of his ankle and he just wrapped it and went on racin'. I had a hairline crack in my left ankle (flat trackin'), it was so swollen I couldn't get my linesman boot on so I rode with one lineman boot and one low cut workman's boot. And my Maley steel shoe wouldn't fit so I went without, Course that was in 1966 but I'd do it again. Yeah sure you would Mr. 542 . That story is true but remember no one has ever accused me of being too smart. |
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Post by larry63r on Apr 18, 2012 10:56:26 GMT -8
I rode my bicycle over three miles to get home with a broken neck.
I rode my motorcycle over five miles in the desert outside Yerrington with a compound fracture of the collar bone, a seperated shoulder and a broken back just so I could get in the ambulace in the pits and go to the hospital.
I dislocated my right knee in the first moto of a gang national at Hollister one year and raced all weekend with it, then I worked all the next week with it. I used a knee pad and an ace bandage for a brace. After about a week it popped back in on it's own. It really sucked trying to pour light standerds that week with a knee that wouldn't bend!
The last time I broke my back I didn't even go to the doctor. It was a few years later that I found out I had broken my back for the second time.
A few years back I crashed on my bicycle and when the bike flipped the rear axle hit me in the back of the head. That was the 13th skull fracture and the 17th concussion that
I have had. I rode four miles home. That is when I started wearing a pro-tec helmet when I ride my bicycles.
Dick Mann has a low tolerance for pain in my opion.
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Post by 542 on Apr 20, 2012 8:40:43 GMT -8
Well maybe I wasn't entirely truthful in my story. 1. It was an old horse track and the turns were so wide you didn't really have to put your foot down to control your slide. 2. Blue groove all the way around & more like road racing. 3. The fastest I've ever ridden on a dirt bike was on that track. And the only 1 miler I ever rode on. It was a local track in Colorado. 4 Yeah I use to beat Dave Aldana, Brad Andress, Mert (no last name needed) Joe Leonard & Eddie Lawson regularly, Oh wait, that must have been in my dreams. The AMA only came to that track one year and I was in the stands. 5 And yes I did have an AMA Class "C" license "Amateur" as in Novice, Amateur & Expert. One foot note; Joe Leonard is my idol and has been since I was twelve. Still alive but retired and still my idol. A wonderful guy! motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.aspx?RacerID=28 |
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Post by rooster73 on Apr 27, 2012 7:17:08 GMT -8
All this reminds me of a saying I used to use alot........................................"The older I get, The faster I was"
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Post by 542 on Apr 27, 2012 13:36:56 GMT -8
All this reminds me of a saying I used to use alot........................................"The older I get, The faster I was" Rooster Never said I was FAST |
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Post by rooster73 on Apr 27, 2012 20:33:00 GMT -8
No one said you did.............................There again, taking everything personal. I said: I used to use that statement about me............me.................me.................me................me..............me. Get it? //// It's a joke about OLD GUYS bench racing..............A JOKE, A joke, Joke , joke. My life style, a smoke, a coke, and a joke. Makes me happy................I can live with it.............Rooster |
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Post by 542 on Apr 30, 2012 13:58:28 GMT -8
No one said you did.............................There again, taking everything personal. I said: I used to use that statement about me............me.................me.................me................me..............me. Get it? //// It's a joke about OLD GUYS bench racing..............A JOKE, A joke, Joke , joke. My life style, a smoke, a coke, and a joke. Makes me happy................I can live with it.............Rooster You seem to have taken my "I didn't say I was fast" post a little too seriously. I'd calmed down by the time I posted that and was qualifying my story. So now your sounding like me. By the way where's Larry did he get his feelings hurt? |
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Post by larry63r on Apr 30, 2012 16:16:31 GMT -8
Larry is an IBEW electrician. They don't have any feelings. Feelings are ripped out, trampled and discarded during apprenticeship. There is no place for feelings on a union job. It's not in the contract.
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Post by 542 on May 1, 2012 5:55:28 GMT -8
Larry is an IBEW electrician. They don't have any feelings. Feelings are ripped out, trampled and discarded during apprenticeship. There is no place for feelings on a union job. It's not in the contract. Glad yer back, did you bet your bicycle fixed? Would hate to see ya have to hitch hike over the hill. |
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