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drikko · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:04 pm Post subject:

I think I found the HDB1 logo:-

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'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
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CerebralKnievel · Big Brick Rider Joined: 02 Jun 2012 Posts: 62

Hi Drikko.....with any luck i should be able to catch up for a ride from sunday october 7th onwards prior to the HDB1 to P.I
Picked up the Grandstand ticket & camping wrist band from the post orifice friday so not long to go now Shocked

If you are short of a dime i can donate some coin to the
" No man-child will drink VB by 2013 " fund , administered by
patron saint Robert James Lee Hawke of course.....

drikko · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah, received my tickets too, dumped on the doorstep even though they required a signature, well done OZ Post!

Just to complicate the arrangements the Lav Club is having a run to Bellingen the weekend befor GP. Bellingen is just behind Coffs Harbour. The good part of it is I will already be halfway to Sydney, Are you able to leave on Tuesday to get to Coffs by Tuesday night? We can leave from there on Wednesday mornin makeing it an easy 2 days ride through the mountinas (have a route already designed, lots of twieties!) getting there Thursday arvo to get better camping spots ie away from the dunnies!
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Laverda RGS 1000 '84
Jim Young Trailer Sailer 5.7M WB

DISCLAIMER:- Anything I say may have been when I was drunk so please don't take it personally.

'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde

drikko · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:57 pm Post subject:

Oh and no worries on beer coupons, they are always available, I'm not married hahaha Laughing

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Laverda RGS 1000 '84
Jim Young Trailer Sailer 5.7M WB

DISCLAIMER:- Anything I say may have been when I was drunk so please don't take it personally.

'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde

drikko · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:04 am Post subject:

Hey CK, give us a call if you can on 0414 388 498 or email drikko at westnet dot com dot au
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K1100RS '97
Laverda RGS 1000 '84
Jim Young Trailer Sailer 5.7M WB

DISCLAIMER:- Anything I say may have been when I was drunk so please don't take it personally.

'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde

drikko · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:33 am Post subject:

Well looks like HDB1 was stillborn, with CK dropping out because he upset the missus somehow, I headed off alone on Saturday morning.

The Lav club was having a get together at Bellingen (about halfway to Sydney) then I was heading on to GP from there this week, however I took a faceplant from an electric powered mountain bike, not wearing ATGATT of course (DOH!) spent 3 nights in Coffs Harbour Hospital. If you look closely at my left knee in the pic you'll see quite a large gash, it had half a metre of gravel in it and required 15 stitches under a General Anesthetic. Face looked like it had been attacked by an angle grinder!

Am home now feeling mostly stupid and a bit sore, particularly feeling stupid as I am always preaching ATGATT! But it wasn't really a motorbike and I'd only had a few beers so what could possibly go wrong????

You can see Rod Yeomans (occasional lurker here) in the background proffering sound advice, "call an ambulance", 2 hours later it arrived and dragged me away. Wouldn't want to have a heart attack out there!

So I'll be watching the Moto GP at Phillip Island this weekend from the comfort of my couch with few coldies instead of standing in the freezing rain they always get on race day....sigh.

LESSON LEARNT THE HARD WAY. Feel free to guffhaw etc, mind you it reinforces ATGATT considering I wasn't going very fast at all, no more than 10mph at the time!

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Laverda RGS 1000 '84
Jim Young Trailer Sailer 5.7M WB

DISCLAIMER:- Anything I say may have been when I was drunk so please don't take it personally.

'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde

robleyd · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:06 am Post subject:

Good thing you had a few beers under the belt or that would have hurt Shocked

Hope you get over that with the minimum of fuss.
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drikko · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:20 am Post subject:

Yeah it's all getting better, can get around without the crutches already. I asked the surgeon if he could stitch the knee up with it bent at right angles so I could ride the bike home, he just looked at me with a "how about I just send you home now" look hahahaha Laughing

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K1100RS '97
Laverda RGS 1000 '84
Jim Young Trailer Sailer 5.7M WB

DISCLAIMER:- Anything I say may have been when I was drunk so please don't take it personally.

'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde

CerebralKnievel · Big Brick Rider Joined: 02 Jun 2012 Posts: 62

And here's me thinking i was a bit of tool for the " traffic infringement "
that has led me to give my licence " a bit of a rest " , leading to my absence from this trip .....
All i have is a fine to remind me of my stupidity , you sir will have some
very impressive scars !!!!
On the other side of the coin, if i'd have come along it may very well have been me Shocked

Any idea if Chris from the BM shop has gone down again this year ?
I cracked my left side crash bar the other day when i wasn't riding my bike Embarassed

drikko · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:31 am Post subject:

Ernie-NH · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:33 am Post subject:

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Man-o-man Drikko !!

That looks like a painful spot to have been in. In hind-sight I know accidents are always explainable and avoidable, but in those few microsecnds while its happening there is nothing one can do. Glad your back on the sofa and NOT in a box ! I'll have a 'coldie' or two in your honor today and hope that everything, including pride, mends quickly !!

All the best...........// Ernie in NH
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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:46 pm Post subject:

Nice pile-up drikko.

So you aren't going to see Stoner off on his last (bike) race at P.I.?

They are to name turn 3 "the Stoner corner" this weekend.

To be so good that he can retire from MotoGP at 27.

Anyway, I'm sure that you have plenty of anesthesia around the house to dull your pain and the race weekend sounds like a frog strangler anyhow.

Heal up quick.
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'04 K1200GT
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drikko · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:14 am Post subject:

Thanks Ernie, I can't even have a coldie with drugs I'm on at the moment, hopefully I won't need them by Sunday for the GP on TV.

John, unfortunately no I won't see Stoners last PI race which was the whole idea, ah well "such is life" as Ned Kelly allegedly said just before being hung....

So the guys I was going to be riding the rest of the way with sent me this loverly picture from the top of Mt Buller this morning, there's some incredible roads up there. Now how good do you think that makes me feel.....gggggrrrrrrrrr Evil or Very Mad

Looks like a great day...

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K1100RS '97
Laverda RGS 1000 '84
Jim Young Trailer Sailer 5.7M WB

DISCLAIMER:- Anything I say may have been when I was drunk so please don't take it personally.

'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde

drikko · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:58 pm Post subject:

Anyone having dinner?

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K1100RS '97
Laverda RGS 1000 '84
Jim Young Trailer Sailer 5.7M WB

DISCLAIMER:- Anything I say may have been when I was drunk so please don't take it personally.

'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde

SugarHillCTD · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:23 am Post subject:

MMMMMMM- looks like some good raw meat. Where's the BBQ?

How good did that feel when they scrubbed the grit out from under the skin?

(Been there, done that.)

Hope you heal fast w/o infection.
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'92 K100RS4V Pearl White SOLD
'04 K1200GT
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drikko · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:52 am Post subject:

SugarHillCTD · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:37 am Post subject:

Many folks here in the U.S. are scared to death (no pun intended) of any sort of socialized health care.

Rumors abound that committees will determine whether some people will be given care while others will just be allowed to die or even be euthanized.

Many think that it would be the start of the road to ruin for the entire country. At least your country seems to have a much better handle on it.

But then you don't have the American Medical Association fighting full time against free health care.

OK, I'll get off my pulpit now......................... Rolling Eyes

before I move this to the dungeon. Laughing

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'92 K100RS4V Pearl White SOLD
'04 K1200GT
IBA Several-SS1k, BBG, 50CC NYC to S.F.

drikko · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 3:28 am Post subject:

So after 3 weeks getting the gravel rash fixed the knee has been getting progressively sorer and swollen as it gets more mobile, the quack was worried about it so sent me for xrays this afternoon, it appears the patella has a fracture in it after all gggrrrrrr, not sure what that means as far as recovery goes, will find out Monday. Better be better before the CLQ xmas party!

FUCK FUCKETY FUCK!!!!! Argy might be getting an extended holiday in Bellingen!

Bloody pushbikes...... Twisted Evil

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K1100RS '97
Laverda RGS 1000 '84
Jim Young Trailer Sailer 5.7M WB

DISCLAIMER:- Anything I say may have been when I was drunk so please don't take it personally.

'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde

Ernie-NH · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:19 pm Post subject:

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Hi John...

I know this thread is NOT about Socialized Medicine,,, BUT I have heard what you refer to over and over and over here in the USA, plus I hear Americans say " We have the best health care system in the world !!".... I can only say to this,, and then I'll just shut up,, that more than half of my life I have relied and used the German health care system,, and the most recent half I am exposed to the American health care system.. Knowing what I know of both, if I ever get sick and hope not to die in poverty I will get the first flight back to my home in the Odenwald.! I truly think that the American health care system, as it currently exists , driven by lawyers, pharmaceutial companies, and Washingtom lobbyists, simply SUCKS to the n-th degree !

Arggghhhhhh !!...........// Ernie in NH
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drikko · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 6:33 pm Post subject:

Well so far this whole exercise has cost me about $180, this includes the 2 nights and surgery in the hospital, medicines including 3 weeks of antibiotics, xrays on the knee yesterday, 6 visits to the doctor/nurse including dressings for the wound each visit, they do a much better job than I can hope to do....

If I need a CT scan on Monday after the doc sees the xrays then that will be bulk billed ie cost me nothing.

I am yet to take my Bupa Health insurance card out of my wallet, which my US employer insists on giving me. I tried to swap it for the income but no it's company policy to have full health insurance no matter which country we live in, but I never use it.

Now if I fell over and had a heart attack or got cancer then I suspect the private health insurance would be welcome but for injury stuff like this it's not needed!
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K1100RS '97
Laverda RGS 1000 '84
Jim Young Trailer Sailer 5.7M WB

DISCLAIMER:- Anything I say may have been when I was drunk so please don't take it personally.

'Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.'
Oscar Wilde