| Author | Message | ||
     Ratbuell |
I think the bike that nearly killed me in '08 (a 2008 1125R) just popped up on the local craigslist for sale. Story sounds right: demo bike, laid down during a demo ride, turned into a race bike, etc etc. Can't decide if I should pick it up, just to remind it who's boss  http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/37/ 385065.html?1218227407 has a couple photos of the local crowd visiting me in the hospital, about 2 weeks after the wreck. And here's my first post...percoset, oxycontin, and everything: Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 03:34 pm: Well, I stood on my own for 8 minutes today, then sat for a bit to clear my head and stood for another 4. First time standing since July 16, so I'm pretty psyched. The docs are happy with my bones and pins and bolts and plates at this point, so that makes me as happy as I can be given the situation...but progress is progress. Damn. Three years. | ||
| Whatever |
Of course you need to buy it, then you can give it to me !!!  | ||
| Court |
No | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
do it, the bikes are super fun (1125R)! | ||
| Froggy |
Do it, bring it to Buelltoberfest so you will be on an even playing field with me | ||
| Ratbuell |
Oh, I know. I have an '09 CR Court sounds....depressingly responsible with his resounding "no". It's just funny (definitely NOT "funny-ha-ha") it pops up this week. The 3 year anniversary was 7/16, and my workers comp hearing (since I was on the clock when it happened) was today. Timing. Still doesn't make up for the anxiety attack I had before work last Saturday... | ||
| Ratbuell |
Do it, bring it to Buelltoberfest so you will be on an even playing field with me : ) Ah...so you want me to slow down this year so you don't have to wave me (and my fully loaded Uly) past you on the dragon? I gotcha....  | ||
| Whatever |
How did the hearing go ? | ||
| Ratbuell |
'bout as much fun (and useful) as traffic court. They've still got a month to diddle around before I hear anything. I just want it OVER. I need some closure in my life. Somewhere. ANYWHERE. | ||
| Froggy |
No, I mean that way you can stuff 100lbs of crap in a 50L high mounted Ventura bag, and have it shift from side to side on every slight turn. | ||
| Ratbuell |
...as appealing as that sounds (and as amusing as it was to watch).... | ||
| Whatever |
I know that feeling. | ||
| Etennuly |
Oh, now I see what Froggy's problem was.....the bag and it's contents were twice his weight. A true cause for concern, especially now that we learn that it was self leaning in the corners. That is probably what led to me accidentally passing him on Rt28 after we left the Dragon. Normally one would have to put some effort into making a pass in a corner, I put more effort into missing him as we were sharing a lane in a near full lean. Damn Ulys get it done with a load!  Joe, it is great that you are here and able to harass Froggy on this, your third anniversary date of that fate-full day.  Oh, and I vote NO! It would probably be like keeping a mean hate-full step-parent locked in the basement. You will fill too much of a great life trying to figure out how to get back at it or win it over. It is a machine, you cannot hurt it back. Or you could hang it on a wall and memorialize the machine. You could even get to ride the crap out of it, but there will always be impure thoughts about it. Let it go and keep looking forward.  | ||
| T9r |
Purchasing an ex ride is like marrying an ex girlfriend... there is a reason you parted paths from them in the past and it is even more difficult parting the 2nd time... it could kill you. Never date a girl twice... never buy the same motorcycle twice. | ||
| Xb9er |
Tame the beast! Buy it! | ||
| Fltwistygirl |
Don't do it. Bad ju ju. | ||
| Aesquire |
There's 2 ways to approach this. 1. Bikes are inanimate, simply mechanical, no spirit, luck, no anthropomorphism, just a machine. in that case, If you want an 1125R, ( totally cool ) unless you have a real need for that 1125R, I'd get another one. You know for a fact that it's had hard knocks and been abused. ( racing is abuse- in this context. ) Don't buy that one unless it's the last one or the most incredible deal. That's if Bikes are machines. 2. If you believe in the least bit that our mechanical creations bear some soul, some thing of their own influenced, yet not of the spirits of maker and user. Or are superstitious. Then the answer is arrived at differently. But the same answer. It's a relationship that didn't work out. Sometimes A reunited couple are happy... but it's very rare. That's why they make movies about it. Or. Bikes hate it when you drop them and want revenge. That's why a buddy of mine has survived a get off at 70mph with the only injury where the crash guard turned his wrist into confetti. Either way... I'm in the don't do it camp. | ||
| Blk_uly |
Bring it to buelltoberfest and I'll help you drive it over the cliff at wolf pen gap. Just for old times sake  | ||
| Ratbuell |
well...decision was made easy. VIN is wrong. Not sure if I'm disappointed, or relieved. lol | ||
| Etennuly |
Not sure if I'm disappointed, or relieved. lol Yes, you are. |
