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Post by ryan_ott on Dec 19, 2018 13:23:45 GMT -5
I’m excited to see you back on 2 wheels! Don’t push your limits, at least until after deer season.
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Post by fuzzyruttin on Dec 19, 2018 16:12:46 GMT -5
Not a hunter myself, but as me pops always says, deer like the tree lines. The fact that there is evidence of another deer/vehicle collision is testament to that I suppose. Is there a deer crossing sign there by any chance??
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Post by 90GTVert on Dec 19, 2018 16:17:51 GMT -5
Not a hunter myself, but as me pops always says, deer like the tree lines. The fact that there is evidence of another deer/vehicle collision is testament to that I suppose. Is there a deer crossing sign there by any chance?? No. Don't see that many signs around. I think it's kind of a given around here. Not much out here but trees and fields so they're all over the place. They put signs on the highway where it's bad and headed to a tourist town but pretty few and far between otherwise. |
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Post by pinkscoot on Dec 19, 2018 21:53:28 GMT -5
Great to hear that you are out and about. Keep up the walking it will get your knee going.
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Post by stepthrutuner on Dec 21, 2018 10:40:41 GMT -5
You should get a winter shield for T-Max. Would make Winter riding much more comfy. Sorry to say but as Frankenmech stated, that knee, especially, will be troublesome from now on. Hopefully, you will avoid night riding as much as possible. Letting cages have your front door when possible at night would lessen the danger a bit. I did this a few nights ago on my HD 200 but was traveling with an individual who had attended the same event some 25 miles from home. I think about deer a lot more since your malady. Good tidings.
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Post by 90GTVert on Dec 21, 2018 11:19:04 GMT -5
Hopefully, you will avoid night riding as much as possible. I'm going to car shows when I can if it kills me. Sadly, night riding has always been one of my favorite things. Late nights and early Sunday mornings, when no one else is really out and about here. I will say that, at least for now, I have little desire to be out too much at night when I know deer are running rampant. Letting cages have your front door when possible at night would lessen the danger a bit. Don't see many cars a lot of the time when it is later. Can be tough on a 50-based scoot too. Even the 2T that can keep up if they don't go 70 can have issues with really low throttle if I'm very close or keeping up if I'm not close and they go faster. I think about deer a lot more since your malady. Good tidings. I had so many close calls or close-enough calls with deer over the years. Rode away like "whew!". I had a close call where a car was beside me and a deer ran out in front of both of us and I thought "I hope this car doesn't swerve and run over me". I've had a deer run out while I was doing about 50 on 30MPH turn. The first time I ever saw a deer on 2 wheels was on a midbike and I was within a couple feet of hitting it. SO MANY times I've seen them right beside the road and been lucky they didn't run. I've been in a car when it got hit by a whole pack of deer. My dental hygenist was just telling me she's hit 9 deer so far in her life, 1 just last month. Lots of people around here have stories of many deer in cars. They hang out in fields by my house and I've watched them narrowly miss cars crossing the road. I've heard the crashes and seen the aftermath of hitting cars right in front of my house. Not one bit of that affected me as much as when it actually happened. I think it shocked a lot of other people too, because suddenly it's very real if it's you or someone you know... especially when you can watch the video and see just how quick it is. The deer is in front of you that fast, and just that fast it can change your life for months or forever. That's not just deer that we should think about like that either. Damn near everything can be dangerous to a 2 wheeler. I will be very happy if seeing my incident persuades anyone to go out and get a full face helmet or some riding gear or just to change their habits to safer ones. I don't know how good I'll be about my riding habits though. I live to ride and I ride different than most. I don't like being around people so I love the late rides. I don't go out and ride to a bar or to a restaurant or to hang out with other 2 wheelers, so my way of having a full day of entertainment is usually to ride all day and/or all night. Heck, 3 of my fingers on one hand are numb since 17 hours of riding in one day for the 48hoursofruckus2018 at the end of August. That should tell me not to push it so hard too, but clearly judging by the amount of time I spent on the road the day of the accident and the day before, with plans to do it all over and then some the next weekend for the fall classic car show, annoying numb digits didn't steer me away from much. I feel like if I were smart I would just sell the scoots and buy another Mustang... but then I'd spend my remaining days in a deep depression. (No, not because I bought a Ford all of you Chevy guys. lol) |
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Post by FrankenMech on Dec 21, 2018 16:08:05 GMT -5
Deer can get you in other ways also. I watched one cross the road ahead of me in a park. I stopped the scoot and walked about 10 feet off the pavement through mowed grass to the edge of the woods where the deer had gone. I couldn't see any sign of the deer. They 'disappear' into the woods. Later that day I discovered a deer tick on me and removed it. A while later I noticed the clinically perfect 'bullseye' mark of Lyme disease and had to get treated for it. The tick crawled through my sock and was only on me a few hours.
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Post by 90GTVert on Dec 21, 2018 16:46:02 GMT -5
Deer can get you in other ways also. I watched one cross the road ahead of me in a park. I stopped the scoot and walked about 10 feet off the pavement through mowed grass to the edge of the woods where the deer had gone. I couldn't see any sign of the deer. They 'disappear' into the woods. Later that day I discovered a deer tick on me and removed it. A while later I noticed the clinically perfect 'bullseye' mark of Lyme disease and had to get treated for it. The tick crawled through my sock and was only on me a few hours. A good friend had his dog run out of the door one night and take off. He chased her through some tall grass in the neighborhood and shortly after she got sick. The vets couldn't figure it out. Eventually she got really sick and wasted away before she died. Really sad to see the sweet pup that was once strong and eager to leap over furniture to come see me and lick my face and sit on me with her tail going like a wiper blade set to warp speed when I came in each time... transformed to skin and bones wearing a diaper with just enough energy for a few tail wags when she saw me.  Then my friend starting being unable to concentrate, very tired and having weird aches and pains seemingly out of nowhere right around that time. He went through a bunch of tests and even switched to a doctor that listened more to what he said. They thought he has MS for a bit. Then finally the doc said he had one last idea that it could be Lyme's. Treated him for that with multiple meds and he got better slowly. When he'd go off of the meds, he'd get worse again. It has been years now and he's now to a point that he doesn't have to be on meds all of the time, but he still gets weak or achy or has trouble concentrating and things like that at times. To this day they have never officially said he has Lyme's, but the Lyme's Disease treatments are the only thing that worked. My understanding is that he may have symptoms for the rest of his life from time to time. Now that it's too late, they think the dog probably had Lyme's as well. He nor the dog ever had any of the bullseye indicators that he knows of. |
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Post by FrankenMech on Dec 21, 2018 20:09:01 GMT -5
Lyme disease can be insidious. My nephew had the first case in Kansas but he probably got it in Colorado. I may even still have it, there is no way to tell.
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Post by Lucass2T on Dec 21, 2018 21:37:51 GMT -5
Being a part time taxi driver i hear lots of stories from clients about all sorts of deseases. Lyme's desease can even get you in a wheelchair! Its a real serious illness spread by ticks. Also heard some real sad stories about diabetics having limbs amputated.
On the other hand i drove around people who fought in ww2! A lady who was a truck driver and delivering mail for ppl in the resistance. And just regular civilians (then just kids) who've seen the terror of war.
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Then my friend starting being unable to concentrate, very tired and having weird aches and pains seemingly out of nowhere right around that time. He went through a bunch of tests and even switched to a doctor that listened more to what he said. They thought he has MS for a bit. Then finally the doc said he had one last idea that it could be Lyme's. Treated him for that with multiple meds and he got better slowly. When he'd go off of the meds, he'd get worse again. It has been years now and he's now to a point that he doesn't have to be on meds all of the time, but he still gets weak or achy or has trouble concentrating and things like that at times. To this day they have never officially said he has Lyme's, but the Lyme's Disease treatments are the only thing that worked. My understanding is that he may have symptoms for the rest of his life from time to time. Now that it's too late, they think the dog probably had Lyme's as well. He nor the dog ever had any of the bullseye indicators that he knows of.