And Another One Bites the Dust

[Ghosty]

Holy shit! Glad you lived. Hope you get some good meds, that rash looks PAINFUL, ugh.

[maktastik_jr.]

Holy shit! Glad you lived. Hope you get some good meds, that rash looks PAINFUL, ugh.

Haha thats not his rash thats my ass rash from last summer. my ass was introduced to cheap seal pavement at 55mph. fucking aweome

[CYCLE_MONKEY]

Haha thats not his rash thats my ass rash from last summer. my ass was introduced to cheap seal pavement at 55mph. fucking aweome

Holy shit a post from Big Bill! How ya been bro?

Oh, and sorry to hear the OP had a run-in with a deer. Sux man, hope you heal up soon and get a new bike!

[maktastik_jr.]

[QUOTE=CYCLE_MONKEY;692618]Holy shit a post from Big Bill! How ya been bro?/QUOTE]
haha this is big bill junior, spawn of bird himself. i just stole his sig pic

[CYCLE_MONKEY]

[QUOTE=maktastik_jr.;692622]

Holy shit a post from Big Bill! How ya been bro?/QUOTE]
haha this is big bill junior, spawn of bird himself. i just stole his sig pic

Ahhh....well, hope Da Man hizzself is doin' fine!

[Darth Do'Urden]

Update
Healing goes well. Should be back to work on Wednesday.

Picked up new gear over the weekend. Jacket was still serviceable and safe despite some newly applied "character" marks, so I saved some money there (and still got paid by insurance for it!). Lookin' at a bike tomorrow.

New gear:
HELMET--Scorpion EXO-500...Scorpion's helmets have saved my life on at least one occasion, and certainly my face on both. Full face helmets for the win. 3/4 just never would have cut in either of my wrecks.
GLOVES--Scorpion SG full gauntlets...no more shorties for me. A full gauntlet glove would have saved me a puncture wound on my right wrist.
PANTS--Scorption Deuce...that actually fit great as strict pants (not overpants), eliminating any excuse for me not to wear them. I still have leather overpants for winter riding.
BOOTS--Icon Reign...nice tall upper and armor for support and protection should (yet another) future incident occur.

I've always been an advocate of riding gear. But I've not always implemented it appropriately (not having actual proper boots, just work boots). No more. I'm absolutely ATTGATT from here on out, no exceptions. If I'd had my leather pants on and actual motorcycle riding boots on 3 weeks ago, I'm convinced I wouldn't have missed more than a day of work. As it is, I've been in Suckville.

And one last measure that I'm taking: I signed up for the Oct. 13th Intermediate Rider Course with ABATE at Red Rocks Community College next month. At my current level, I don't believe there's anything I could have done differently to avoid that deer 3 weeks ago (and God knows it's gone through my head a million times now). But I also believe there's room for me to improve so that I CAN avoid it in the future.

Anyway...I still don't have pics yet (been lazy on the couch, sue me!), but I'll get some up soon.

One last thing: Let It Ride on Colfax (couple blocks from G-Force) is just awesome. Tons of apparel, decent selection of boots and helmets (though I had to have my helmet ordered), and awesome folks running the place. They've got Grand Prix beat by miles. Definitely worth the trip for me from where I'm at in Littleton even though Grand Prix is much closer.