Out for 2-3 months- Minor Accident

[born green]

Hey fitzy..
Glad to hear ur ok..
Mate i dont think anyone will rub it in. we all ride and i reckon i could speak for all, nobody that rides like's to see a bike down, few here prob like to see me go down tho but i sure as hell dont... having lost a few to many mates over the years..
Learn from it and put it in the memory banks, most of us had a tumble or two in the early days.
And one u just learnt.. good clothing, its there to do a job, and seems it has..
Fitzy im anal about wearing the right gear all the time, i wear dragging jeans sometimes around town, but still feel im not protected enough...
So heal up and get back on...

Cheer's

[TyM2Go]

thanks for the support guys and yea i am never going to renew my squid membership
gonna take up hoffys advice on knee braces as well don't want to end up wheel chair bound
cheers fitzy

[kawa 06]

Sorry to hear that glad you are ok and lucky you bought the gear, not nice picking tar out of your skin for the rest of your life just ask hibster
rest up do the physo and see u back on the road soon

[dilligaf]

ouch. from experience shoulders are buggers. 3 months might be a bit optimistic. if you can afford a good physio you night make it that quick.

[TyM2Go]

wait what its gonna take longer? come on 1st i was told 4-6 weeks then 6-8 then 3 months tops
this is a real bummer no riding, no fishing, no gym, no wanking, oops but na really cant do much as my right hand is my dominant arm and i cant even lift a kilo of sugar on it

[dickfaber]

good gear saves more money than it costs; here is the proof!

sorry to hear you've had an off, now get back on the bike as soon as (withdrawal symptoms are a bugger!)

[Strika]

Mate, so sorry to hear of your off. As I said in one of my first posts to you, as a learner you WILL crash, not might crash!

Now, if you have broken your clavicle, that's just a Collar bone. No big deal. But, I would recommend you get it pinned. It will heal straight and faster and will leave you with less issues as you age. Trust me, I've had over 12 or more screws and several pins and a couple of plates over the years. the bones left to heal on their own, end up shithouse, the ones I had screwed, pinned or plated all healed really fast and work great even now.

Now, lastly! I am gunna have a go at you for one thing! Stop the bullshit excuses. The sticks had nothing to do with your crash. If you blame them in print, you will be blaming htem in your head and I garuantee you, it was not the sticks. It was your fear which overtook your skills. You thought....SHit.....stuff on the road....I'm gunna lose it, so instead of just keeping your line and letting the bike walk it's way across the sticks, which it would have, you stood the bike up and got on the brakes. How do I know this??? Because they ALL do it! If your are totally honest, that is exactly what you will find is the cause of the crash.

If you do not accept this, then that is the first backwards step you will be taking in your riding! Accept you fucked up, accept it was not the sticks and work on tipping the bike in next time instead of heading for the bushes. There is less grip on the verge than there is over a few leaves or sticks. Sure, the bike might move across the road a little, but it won't fall over. Get it through your head now or you will end up doing this type of thing over and over.

I've physically watched guys crash, due to the same error and then blame everything but there own actions. They never grow in there riding.

I say all this in the hope that you will listen. Open your mind, think about it, get back on the bike and work on it so it never happens again.

I've heard all the bullshit excuses from people for over 30 years............................

[marksesh]

Welcome to the non squid club. Good to see all the bagging had some effect. See we do care...Bones heal, dont rush the recovery and last of all glad you come through to tell the tale.

[TyM2Go]

strika mate i kept true even with the branches on the road, which was my downfall, i was in the lean and everything i had a massive wabble after i went over the 1st branch which put me out wide i got the bike off the lean and slowed it down as it is a bend there's no more road apart from the mud covered with a branches twigs and grass soon as i got on that all traction was lost, if i were to continue to lean it with i would have ended up with enough momentum where the bike would had slid of the road hit the railings and over the mountain with me following behind, i already know i fucked up the instant i came of the bike and as for my skill level it is shaaait!and as for the bikes condition i blame no one but my self, also checking out the chick flying by 1 min before the incident took place at the slab would be the bikes way of getting back at me for checking another chick out and i don't blame her
p.s i know this mistake wont happen again will go super slow next time i see twigs on a bend
but thanks for the info the docs suggest to let it heal by letting it sit on a sling which would also mean i loose half my strength in my dominant shoulder, if i take the operations to many complications , drlling to far may cause nerve damage or pierce an artery leaving me bleeding to death on the table or with no feeling in my arm, in his words "the risk out way the benefit"

[Strika]

You are not listening, open your ears! Stop blaming the sticks! You're kidding yourself. If a stick put you off line, you should have turned the bike tighter. But you didn't, you jumped on the brakes and stood it up and headed for the bushes. If you had steered the bike again, leant it further, you would have made the corner. You've been doing this 2 minutes. I and a lot of others have been doing it for years. We have made those mistakes and learnt from them hence we are still alive.

But you just keep blaming everything but yourself. If you don't open your mind and admit it and you keep riding, I will lay a Wreath at your funeral!

Sorry to be harsh, but I have seen it so many times and if you don;t start realising that it was YOU and not the road, the sticks, the water, the gravel, the animal, the wind or whatever other bullshit excuse you use, you'll end up doing it over and over and over until in the end, the above happens! Get it????????????

[Strika]

Oh...and find another surgeon.

[robracer]

I Have had a heap of pins, no complications seriously your doc is mud if he is telling you that BS
Edit Thanks Strika

[TyM2Go]

that's west-mead hospital for ya i am gona get a second opinion to tell fix them up and then proceed with the plates/screws

[dickfaber]

that's west-mead hospital for ya i am gona get a second opinion to tell fix them up and then proceed with the plates/screws

heres a hint stay well away from c'town hospital - after i broke my thumb, they tried to manipulate it back into place because they thought it was dislocated! for 10 minutes and had to have 4 blokes hold me down because i was "non-compliant"

liverpool is another to steer clear of, after my knee reco, they 'lost' me between xray and ward. put me in a corridor (which was empty) and then forgot where i was for 3 hours. i used a mop to paddle my gerney(bed) to the next doorway with a phone after 2 hours and just rang any number until some carnt came and saw what the fuss is all about.

it costs, but private is really, the only way to go; the fcuk up quotient is much lower.

[dickfaber]

ps woolongong is even worse, i got hit by a doctor speeding in the driveway leaving that shithole.

then the missus got a speeding fine on the way home, 66 in a 60 zone!

(you guess right, i hate wollongong and all the selfserving, entitled inbreds that live there)