Lucky To Be Alive !

[BAM]

Hey guys iam posting my story in hopes that it will help.Just got out of hosptle today well here goes this all started last sunday out for a ride sundays is my day for rides went by a coopple of freinds houses bs and beer left mybe 5 miles form home back country roads and bam! dog out of nowere ditched it at about 30mph knocked out and bleeding so Iam told dont rember much till i got home that nite oner of dog called cops and ems cop said go with ems our go to jail so i went with ems got to hospitle no cop around left walking down street now 10 miles from home my Boss sees me and gives me a ride home says take mon off road rash every where and left ear in bad shape but guts are by far worse so I cant lie flat with out PAIN make it though mon but tues no better girl frend asks if a want to get ckecked out I say yes cant take the PAIN so back to the hosptile I walked away from 2 days ago for and MRI I was in so much PAIN they had to give me somthing just to lie flat for that didnt take long and they talking real quite in the corner then told me i need a trama surgan NOW spline was bleeding now i need to be air lifted to st marys for possable sugary off we go they used a camra and injected dye into my spline bleeding had stoped but wanted to watch me closse two days in ICU and two days in a reg room ive never been poked and proded so much in my life o buy the the whey i was 3 pints low I guess what iam saying is if your hurt get ckecked out i dont have ins. money is not everything ill ride agian but with a lot more safty equ.

[seth.brazell]

I've learned two things from this article: never underestimate the power of safety gear or punctuation.

[Pablo]

I've learned two things from this article: never underestimate the power of safety gear or punctuation.

by a coopple of freinds houses bs and beer

Houston. We have an answer.

Hope you mend up OK.

[professor]

You guys are very hard on BAM. Dog out of nowhere happened to another member a couple of months ago. You didn't rail on him about it. Pray it doesn't happen to yourself.

[Pablo]

I hear you and I as I said I hope he fully mends.

Drinking and MB riding isn't cool, IMHO.

[Zev0]

You guys are very hard on BAM. Dog out of nowhere happened to another member a couple of months ago. You didn't rail on him about it. Pray it doesn't happen to yourself.

I am the guy with the dog out of nowhere. Upper right arm and shoulder healing well. NO BEER involved. Alcohol and 2 wheel vehicle operation is not wise.

[motorpsycho]

Wow!! That's one big long, confusing run-on sentence!!!
Punctuation and spell check are both free.
Beer however, has a pricetag....and your post is the proof!

[Dilly Bar Rob]

Whoa! Close call there BAM, hope you get better soon!

Come on guys, take it easy on him, who doesn't engage in "beer & BS" once in a while. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do before riding a MB or anything (don't want to get flamed...). I'm not saying that alcohol wasn't a contributing factor, it may have very well been, but when I hear "dog ran infront of me....." I think that the dog was the main factor. Could have taken out anybody, just that BAM happened to be the unlucky one that night. Got to give the guy some credit for standing up and saying that he indeed did have some beer in him, he could just as well have said that he was fully sober and then everybody here would feel sorry for him.

I almost got taken out by a dog yesterday....Riding around the 'hood, nice and slow (the folder bike only has 2 speeds - stop and slow :-) keeping an eye out for pooches at large (ever since Zev0 wrote about his encounter). A dog behind a fence is a rare sight around here so a guys got to watch out. I see a big lab cross in the distance....barks, runs for a bit, stops, good dog. I see a guy "unloading" two big dogs from the back of his pickup, ones a mean looking german shepard, wouldn't want to get in trouble with that one. Dogs pay no attention whatsoever to me....good dog, or good training should I say maybe. Then out of NOWHERE this small barking growling bugger jolts out, caught him in my peripheral vision. Looked like he would either jump on me or end up in between my wheels (wheels are just 20" on the MB I was riding so i bet that a dog under one would stop me FAST). I noticed him just in time and gassed it, he missed me by about a foot! No doubt that if it was dark I wouldn't have seen him and I would most likely biff it. Also no doubt that if this would happen to my local MB friend (in his sixties) he would most likely biff it, slow or fast, sober or not - his reflexes just aren't as good as they once were.....


Ride safe everybody!


Get well soon BAM!

[fasteddy]

BAM, hope you get well soon.

Beer and biking? Let those of you without sin cast the first stone.

Not everyone had the benefit of a great education or was able to use it.

Being an old guy at 66, your right Dilly. Reflexes are not as great as they were even 10 years ago.

Isn't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. {Old saying in my neighbourhood}

Steve.

[Stan4d]

Glad you are ok BAM.
As for the bs and beer.....I noticed he did not say how much. One beer while BSing could be OK....I will not judge on that. But it might not be wise.
Thank you for sharing.