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Posted by pcarrell
- December 20, 2013, 13:33:59 PMGood news Troll, and keep up the cloak and dagger. Once it begins to feel a little better is not the time to start back in with it and end up hurting it again.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- December 20, 2013, 13:04:22 PMDude milk it as long as you can......but glad you are getting and feeling better......
Posted by Troll
- December 20, 2013, 12:11:17 PMIt's getting better, but just HOW MUCH better is going to be my secret for a little while longer!
Posted by DC
- December 20, 2013, 09:20:19 AMSorry to hear about your foot Troll. I know what bad foot pain can be too. Some years ago, I was coming down the steps at a friend's house. The carpet on the treads was real "grippy". Anyway, the tip of my shoe got caught on the carpet and my foot pretty much did a 180. . . . yes, just about all the way around. Lots of cracking and crunching, but same thing, nothing broken. So very, very painful for a long time, but the plus side was that I could get people (the wives) to wait on me for some time after that. HA!
Posted by jmbo
- December 19, 2013, 17:27:46 PMTroll hope your mending. It'll be riding time before you know it.
However!?! it is currently colder than a well digger's elbow whatever that means. Last night after moving the six boxes of garage siding (from the job that was supposed to start in October and the guy said would only take "two weekends") I was finally able to push the bike into my shop. Deconstruction begins tonight. Decided that the hot rod project would have to suffer a few more weeks while I repaint the old '99'er. I also have a few pieces that need to be re-powder coated and hope to have the seat rail mocked up by the weekend. Nothing like looking out the window at a snow covered yard to make you feel like a useless turd. Time to get my ass off the couch and get 'er done. Otherwise I'll regret it come spring.
Posted by pcarrell
- December 19, 2013, 10:24:50 AMHope you get to feeling better soon Troll!
As for what I've been doing with the bike lately.......I plugged in the battery tender the other day. New tires will have to wait until after Christmas as funds are tied up in that right now.
Posted by Troll
- December 19, 2013, 09:20:04 AMThe doctor has me ice it for 10 minutes 4x a day...so I just go outside and stand for a while 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- December 18, 2013, 18:34:25 PMis it keeping your foot warm?
Posted by John Hopkins
- December 18, 2013, 18:04:25 PMI've got a couple of stairlifts and an electric wheelchair in my house.
John.
Posted by Troll
- December 18, 2013, 12:41:35 PMWell, here's a pic of my early Christmas present...Wife's dog is pretty interested in it..maybe after I don't need it anymore....
Posted by 49Reo
- December 18, 2013, 11:37:36 AMQuote from: chief on December 18, 2013, 09:53:13 AMHad a harley kicker... it kicked my 90 pound GF over the handlebars... slapped me a couple of times (her and the kicker)... yeah ELECTRIC start for me too...
(disclaimer... I am looking at a shovelhead kicker at the moment... should have my head examined!)
My old shovel had a nasty habit once in a while of engaging the kicker gear, then it would "slip off" the gear; came down on the kicker, it caught, then slipped off, came down and caught the battery box on the inside of the knee. NOT considered to be fun. Had a bruise a foot long on the inside of my knee. Electric start rules......
Posted by CDNRatMan
- December 18, 2013, 10:30:25 AMWell I was once told by a Padre that the good die young because God has a plan for them, and then people that hang around well they have not suffered enough and that is why we grow old.....so GB you will live to be 150 or so, and I'll be right close behind you.....
Troll you need to go to IKEA and get one of them tractor seats with wheels on the bottom of it like mine they are cool to roll around on.....
Posted by Troll
- December 18, 2013, 10:01:57 AMOK, so I should have turned around on the stairs and looked where I was going. I get that...But don't tell me you've never done gone backwards down a step or two...Seems to be healing up ok. Yesterday I needed a stick for support, today, if I take it slow, I can walk. I AM GOING OUT TO THE GARAGE THIS AFTERNOON! Supposed to get to 37, I definitely want to assemble the seat and bags. I'm pretty happy about the diet results, too. My blood glucose was 90, so maybe I will out live all of you...as only the good die young!
Posted by chief
- December 18, 2013, 09:53:13 AMHad a harley kicker... it kicked my 90 pound GF over the handlebars... slapped me a couple of times (her and the kicker)... yeah ELECTRIC start for me too...
(disclaimer... I am looking at a shovelhead kicker at the moment... should have my head examined!)
Posted by John Hopkins
- December 18, 2013, 08:22:17 AMBack in the old days when 600 or 650 was a big bike and getting 100 mph was considered the ultimate road speed, probably about 1966 I rode a Matchless G11 600 cc bike, While kick starting it one morning it backfired and the kickback hit me under the arch of my foot. The pain was intense and didn't ease off so I went to the doctor, he didn't bother with an X ray but told me it wasn't broken and had the nurse bandage it, the bandage was so loosely wrapped that it came off that night, It was some time before I could bring myself to kick that bike over again, but it never caught me again..
I love electric starters..
John.