Picked up the trailer from Yuma AZ yesterday. The trip home was uneventful for the most part. I was a bit worried that I might get stopped at one of three check points along the way, as the trailer had no tags. Turns out to be no problem.
Got it home and parked in the back and started right away on pulling the boardsoff to see what the frame looked like under the boards. What I see doesnt look bad. I'm going to have to strengthen a couple of places along the frame, but other then that I believe it will work out fine for what I need. When I get a chance I'll post pictures of this project.
I have one month to get this trailer ready for our trip to Sturgis South Dekota in Aug.
The chapter had their brunch ride this weekend. They all took a nice ride in the back country before ending up to eat at Taylors Taste of Texas in El Cajon. I heard it was a nice ride and time by all that went.
I need to start getting out on more of the chapter rides. Lately I've had to many others things come up that hasn't allowed me to ride with the group. The way things are shaping up, I may not get much riding in with the chapter till Sept. after the Sturgis run.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
I'm Back!!!
It has been awhile since I’ve written to this blog. I actually removed all the old post as I hadn’t posted for better part of the year.
Living life has a way of getting in the way by not allowing the time needed to sit down and write what’s been going on and what’s coming up if you know what I mean.
My last post was back in September of last year. I wrote about being in the middle of dealing with my son’s impounded car and the hassles that entailed. All worked out, we got the car back.
So far this year a lot has happened. In March, I went down on my wife’s bike while taking it to the dealership to have them look for an electrical problem. The bike had died (lost power) while on the highway. As I moved over to get onto the shoulder of said highway, I ended up getting on some oil under an overpass and the bike went into a skid. In the blink of an eye, I was high sided (Thrown over the top) from the bike to the pavement. I suffered three broken and one cracked rib, a concussion and minor road rash.
I spent the night in the trauma center and five weeks off to recover. I’m all better from that now.
Then I found out I have what’s called Inflammatory Muscle Disease. I found this out after mentioning to my doctor that I had been feeling weak in the legs. I told him of this before I had my bike accident. After lots of blood work, so kind of electro stimulus procedure, a muscle biopsy, and several trips to see another doc that specializes in muscle and bone, IMD is what I have. They just don’t know what version. This I hope to find out next week.
I’m not too worried; I mean what can I do about it anyways? Right now I’m taking some steroids and another drug to see if strength comes back to my legs.
On the brighter side, I made the ride to Reno NV to attend the annual HOG Officers training.
This was three days of pretty intense training. Those of us that went picked up a lot of good information on how to run and organize a chapter.
Today, I’m in the process of getting everything done that needs to be done before making the trek to Sturgis South Dakota in Aug.
Last night I went to Yuma AZ to look at a trailer. I need a trailer that will hold four full size bikes. This one I looked over will meet my needs. So I gave the guy $300.00 bucks to hold it with the promise I’ll be back on Sunday to pick it up.
Lots of work still ahead and I’m getting a bit short on time.
Promise I’ll write more here more often and let you all know what’s happening.
Living life has a way of getting in the way by not allowing the time needed to sit down and write what’s been going on and what’s coming up if you know what I mean.
My last post was back in September of last year. I wrote about being in the middle of dealing with my son’s impounded car and the hassles that entailed. All worked out, we got the car back.
So far this year a lot has happened. In March, I went down on my wife’s bike while taking it to the dealership to have them look for an electrical problem. The bike had died (lost power) while on the highway. As I moved over to get onto the shoulder of said highway, I ended up getting on some oil under an overpass and the bike went into a skid. In the blink of an eye, I was high sided (Thrown over the top) from the bike to the pavement. I suffered three broken and one cracked rib, a concussion and minor road rash.
I spent the night in the trauma center and five weeks off to recover. I’m all better from that now.
Then I found out I have what’s called Inflammatory Muscle Disease. I found this out after mentioning to my doctor that I had been feeling weak in the legs. I told him of this before I had my bike accident. After lots of blood work, so kind of electro stimulus procedure, a muscle biopsy, and several trips to see another doc that specializes in muscle and bone, IMD is what I have. They just don’t know what version. This I hope to find out next week.
I’m not too worried; I mean what can I do about it anyways? Right now I’m taking some steroids and another drug to see if strength comes back to my legs.
On the brighter side, I made the ride to Reno NV to attend the annual HOG Officers training.
This was three days of pretty intense training. Those of us that went picked up a lot of good information on how to run and organize a chapter.
Today, I’m in the process of getting everything done that needs to be done before making the trek to Sturgis South Dakota in Aug.
Last night I went to Yuma AZ to look at a trailer. I need a trailer that will hold four full size bikes. This one I looked over will meet my needs. So I gave the guy $300.00 bucks to hold it with the promise I’ll be back on Sunday to pick it up.
Lots of work still ahead and I’m getting a bit short on time.
Promise I’ll write more here more often and let you all know what’s happening.
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