| Author | Message | ||
     Baggermike |
I have ridden bike almost my whole life and have been in some bad accidents. so at time I forget what I post and sometimes you guys might have trouble understanding me, that is all right just tell me to explain it better, I try to do my best to learn and to help, I need to slow down and breath, that is what my son tell me, I walk like a drunk but can balance my bike, I do not no how I can be so clumsy yet when on my bike it is like I turn into someone else, I use to be real good at fixing bikes and now it is a struggle. I also know I can not ride as good as I use to and maybe it is fear. I just want you guys to know if you do not understand what I am trying to say then ask I will not be offended, I feel lucky that I can still ride. Anyway I hope everyone stays safe this year and I can make it to the Buells homecoming and then we can all have a good laugh. Mike | ||
| Timmyusmc |
Don't worry Mike there are a lot of us out there that are just about the same. Hopefully I will be back in the states for the homecoming, still no orders as of yet, but if not I know that in spirit I will be there with ya. Happy riding. | ||
| Rustygas73 |
Mike I'm dazed confused and clumsy all the time. But, I was born this way. I really have to work and struggle to stay on top of things. I'm always scared to ride my bike first thing in the morning, as my head and body dont start working together for about an hour after I get up and a pot of coffee. Keep doing what your doing. I am learning alot from your posts and I have never thought of you having any problems. The way you have set up your bike has me in awe and hoping I can get half of the stuff working on mine. Rusty | ||
| Kravfighter |
Mike, keep posting, your wisdom helps us to learn, and your patience and integrity with this company is inspiring, thank you for sharing your experience with some of us younger riders. | ||
| Alans |
Your posts are completely intelligible. They, and their surrounding posts, provide some of the best insights here, in my opinion. | ||
| Ducxl |
I think you're a Kook,a nutcase,and DAZED AND CONFUSED.      But i still look forward to doing Mt.Washington with you again too | ||
| Ccryder |
Mike: Dazed and confused, well yeah, you and I have an excuse! Darn I just can't remember what it was............................................... .................................... Oh yeah you and I and a number of others grew up around the same time and........ oh yeah drugs, sex and, rock'n roll had something to do with that............... where was I going with this post, oh heck more coffee. Later Neil S. | ||
| Baggermike |
Thanks Guys I did not expect any post just wanted to let you guys know not to be afraid of telling or asking something that might offend me. I have never been on a forum before finding this one, I find you guys very helpful. I am learning new things and trying to share my knowledge, I am also teaching my son to ride and know that the dangers that are out there now, were not there when I was a newbie, I would like to get my son into dirt riding and for me to get back into dirt riding again also. I think about the stuff I got away with and know I could never get away with the things I did now. Here is a funny story, my friends and I were riding in a golf course on are dirt bikes, I had came off a jump on my honda xl 350 and wiped out, there were some golfers near by and one was coming after me with his club, I had mud knobies on my dirt bike and I was kicking the bike to start it and it was not starting, as he was getting closer I noticed the switch was off so I flip it to on and gave it a real good kick and it started, all my friends were sitting on there bikes watching as he got closer to me, just when I got the bike started he was about to club me so I -W F O- the throttle and dumped the clutch, as I was starting to pull away I looked behind me and my tire was kicking up mud and grass all over the guy, all my friends got a big kick out of it, to bad they did not have video camera's back then. Anyway I have lots of stories to tell at home coming, I hope everything goes good so My son and I can make it to home coming, I think it will would be a really awesome time to be there and meet you guys, I have not been to anything like this before so I do not know what to expect but I know it will exciting for my son and me to be there. Anyway I am here to help and to learn so if you have questions, need help finding something, need advice, or looking for something for your bike, or do not understand what I am talking about just ask. Mike | ||
| Spatten1 |
Mike, you are universally appreciated here, keep up the good work! | ||
| Baggermike |
Hey Greg I found a new mountain in Vermont called Mt equinox, not as nice as MT Washington but they give you driving directions, at the end it says these are just suggestions and that you know your vehicle and what you and it is capable of, was a nice ride up and down, and have a funny story about what happened and will have to show you, it is hard to explain. Mike | ||
| Ducxl |
I Don't appreciate the golf course story.As a young teen i paid for my first motorcycle by hunting and selling golf balls used in the clubhouse.I'd sit near the end of the day with a Coke and sell golfballs.SERIOUS implications for tearing up the course,or worse,the greens  But the past is well....Bygones and all | ||
| Baggermike |
Greg we were not tearing up the golf course just passing through, he did not have the right to attack me no matter what, I did what I had to do so he got it or I would have. we are all guilty of doing things as teens, the difference is most of us grow up but some do not, I grew up after getting into trouble and turned my life around. Greg have you seen the guys that go scuba diving for golf balls in the ponds in and around golf courses, they make a good living doing it. Mike | ||
| Blake |
I look forward to meeting you at Homecoming Mike. | ||
| Baggermike |
Hey Blake my son just said he wants to go with me to Buells home coming to, now I am psyched that he will go with me, should be a fun trip, I do not know what to expect but should be a really good time, I am telling him right now that we are doing an iron butt to get there, he challenged me after I rode from boston to Niagara Falls and back in 18 hours and he thinks it is easy to do, I was on the ulysses and alone so I got there to take some pictures and then I was to cheap to get a hotel room so I headed back home. anyway his bike can carry allot so I will be keeping my fingers crossed that nothing happens that will prevent us from going, I will use the blast if I have to. I think I will have to put race school off to after the trip so I can have enough money to do it and to do what ever we want while there.. This summer fall I want to ride to the home coming and in the fall the Blue Ridge Parkway which has the dragon around the end of the parkway and would be awesome to do in the fall, plus my son will be a much better rider and we can ride there together and then it is off to college for him. Mike | ||
| Old_man |
Mike, I notice that I am becomming more clumsy and feel like I'm having trouble with my balance at times. On my bike, I too, have no problem. I blame it on getting older, but truthfully, I should metion it to my doctor next checkup. You should probably do the same. I found no problems with your posts, I wouldn't worry about that. We both should check out the clumsy aspect with a doctor. Wishing you the very best. Jack | ||
| Baggermike |
Hey Old Man not old age but I have a inner ear tumor that makes me very dizzy at times and walk like I am drunk but I can ride fine, I do worry about being pulled over and ask to walk a strait line, I would fail, but think if I told them what I had they should know, I also slur my words sometimes also from head trauma, so if I get pulled over there is a chance that they would pick up on my speech and think I am D U I. it is slow growing, and it happens like one and one hundred thousand people, the operation is brain surgery and I seen it on tv and it was really nasty, if the Doc screws up it can freeze that side of your face, so I would look like the joker that stole bat mans bat bike. so if you get the spins when you lay down and you have not drank any thing then it is possible you have this. I do not worry about it and already asked at the registry if I could ride deaf and they said yes, Now I abuse my ears and listen to music really loud. Mike | ||
| Old_man |
I had a motorcycle accident years ago that crushed the orbit of my eye, knocked my cheek bone over and broke my jaw. It did damge to the part of the brain that controls speech, severed facial nerves to the left side of my face. I, too, talked like I had been drinking and lost some vocabulary. It took some time but I was able to train another part of my brain, so that, now, no one would notice. I still search for a word now and then. The surgeon who repaired the damage did a good job, but I am still bothered by the cold because of the many wires holding it together. Also, no orbit for my left eye, but I see fine out of it. I know surgery is a scary thought, but there are many competant doctors. I would see several more to get their opinions, before I gave up on that option. Again, my best wishes. Jack | ||
| Baggermike |
Thanks I do have an excellent doctor at Mass eye and ear suppose to be one of the best hospitals but I am more worried about my sight which I might have a problem and need to get in to the eye doctor, at the very least I need new glasses, but told me there is some difference in the two eyes and they are taking pictures to track it, but if anything is going to kill me I bet it will be a cage, riding around boston is bad, I lost my wife and do not want to lose my son, he wanted to ride and I said I would stop riding on the street if he did not ride on the street, He wants to ride the street so I bought him a blast and been teaching him, he wants to get a communication system which would be good, as he follows I can point out what someone can do as we ride and think this would be a good teaching tool. In May he will be stepping up to the ulysses and then we can start touring, today he rode with me on the highway for a short distance and no longer fears it, He is not the dare devil I was and is cautious and he listens to me, I am more like his older brother than dad, I will be fifty in May so I have made it this far and hope this summer is the best. Mike | ||
| Timmyusmc |
Mike your son is a lucky guy. I wish that my father would have taken an interest in me learning how to safely ride. But he gave up motorcycles when he was in his thirties and only told stories, stories that I tried to emulate. With very painful and costly results. More parents need to take an active role in teaching their children not just telling stories of the "good old days" while these stories are fun to listen to they all too often do not properly convey the results of these story worthy events. Thank you for ensuring that there will be another responsible fan of two wheeled transit. Tim | ||
| Baggermike |
Thanks Tim I am not the usual dad, and I do not take after my dad either. My job is to guide him thru life not tell him what to do and to give him respect, and this is what I have gotten in return. I raised him myself from 8 month old when my wife passed away and had two ruptured disc in my back from two month before that, 1990 was a very bad year for me. I did not want a child but things happen and I thought about giving up but did not, I look back and can not believe I have raised a child to a man, it blows my mind when I think of all I have done. I wanted to make his 18th birthday special to celebrate becoming a man and bought him the blast even though it made me broke, I also gave him my ring I had made from his moms and my jewelery. I am sure he will remember his 18th birthday as a very special day for the rest of his life. I get compliments on how I raised him, and he is 18 and still listens to me, how many guys listen to there dads at that age. I just hope my worst fear does not come true and I lose him, and do not want him to lose me either. Mike | ||
| Rustygas73 |
I applaud you Mike. My kids barely know me because of my job. Motorcycles are something that have just recently started to bring us a little closer together. This summer I'm planning a trip for us riding in the national forests on dirt bikes. But what you have done for your son and with your son is something very special. He will never forget it. Rusty | ||
| Baggermike |
Thanks Rusty getting your kids into dirt riding will be the best for your family and is a very healthy sport. it is all I did when young and was in very good shape. I also am thinking of getting back into dirt bikes but I do not own a truck or anything with four wheels, but I could use the work out. I could rent a van to go once a week, but I would want to ride all the time, anyway that is on the back burner for now. I just want to have a great time riding with my son this summer. I also plan on moving down the road to the mountains so a dirt bike would be good when I move, I hate Taxachusetts. MIke | ||
| Court |
Mike: You'll get the greatest rewards ever from the time you invested. For years, every Thursday night when I got home, my sons had the dirt bikes on the trailer and off we'd go to spend the summer evenings riding together. Few better ways to spend time with your kids. The symptoms you describe are classic symptoms of Ménière’s disease. | ||
| Baggermike |
Hi Court I know I am not going to spell this right but it is call acustic neroma, right now is it a small growing tumor the size of a BB, it grows slow and some time I will lay down and the room will spin like crazy worse than being Drunk but does not feel as bad and if I turn over it is less spinning, what bothers me is when I am having an flare up it makes things hard to do, the flare ups can be a few days or around a month. I did think it was Meniere's disease because my ears sing me a song but with an MRI is how they found it. Any way I was a dirt bike rider until a jeep hit me and almost killed me, I was lucky but unlucky he hit me so fast he did not know what he hit I was coming down a tight trail and just as I got on to the big trail he hit me and I was going to slow to get out of his way, He had a plow hook up on the jeep I took one of the lights off, dented the fender my head hit the upper part of the wind shield, left a drop of blood on the steering wheel missed the roll bar and landed on my ass where the cematary dumps the dead flowers, the front bumper hit me bike right behind my foot I think, one bolt broke on the foot peg and my foot was smashed into the engine, if the other bolt had broke I would have lost my foot, I woke up looking out at a swamp and thought I was dreaming and it hit me and I turned around and they were backing up, I thought I lost my leg and was afraid to look but did and when I got down to my foot it looked like somebody stepped on a tomato, then after all this he ask me if I am all right, I hoped in back of the jeep and that is when the pain hit me, Morphine did not help but made time go by really fast, Now here is the weird part I was riding with a friend 6 days before and he said he was going home and did not he went street riding and got hit and almost lost his leg so he was a few rooms down from me, I was trying to get in to see him but did not want to do it that way. Mike | ||
| Bob_thompson |
Like many of you guys I started my son out in the dirt and we did many weekends out in the hills riding. He became a very good rider and now is my very best riding companion. We have similar bikes, my M2 and now the 1125 and he rides an SV1000. No better riding can be had then to be with your son (or wife,daughter, girlfriend) on a great day on some great bikes. Most times when we ride with a small group we split off near the end of the ride to head home, (we live close), together to finish the ride with each others company. A great way to end a great ride. Continuing story.....Bob | ||
| Baggermike |
Sounds good Bob. Mike | ||
| Zac4mac |
Contact, Bob. I remember really enjoying riding with my first wife. Started out with her behind me. Then I built her a TT Triumph, 500 Daytona out of many parts. Way better with her NEXT to me instead. Z |
