ArdWrknTrk Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Today is EXACTLY 40 years since I was thrown under a tractor trailer. Like that isn't going to raise questions. From whom? :nabble_anim_confused:I got T-boned on my motorcycle and knocked into the oncoming traffic lane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBrother-84 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Today is EXACTLY 40 years since I was thrown under a tractor trailer. Jim, you and Big Bro have astral links. He was incubating at the factory when you got hurt, and was born while you were under traction. I estimate he was delivered to the dealer end of May and reached his new home on Anticosti Island little before you left hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Today is EXACTLY 40 years since I was thrown under a tractor trailer. Jim, you and Big Bro have astral links. He was incubating at the factory when you got hurt, and was born while you were under traction. I estimate he was delivered to the dealer end of May and reached his new home on Anticosti Island little before you left hospital. We share a point in the space-time continuum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat in tn Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 We share a point in the space-time continuum! Jim there is being blunt and honest and then there is TMI. of all my years riding motorcycles and travelling across our country on a Goldwing . I count myself extremely lucky to have avoided "the crash". I do miss riding but I have made the decision not to as my wife is a challenging passenger in a car let alone in the wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Jim there is being blunt and honest and then there is TMI. of all my years riding motorcycles and travelling across our country on a Goldwing . I count myself extremely lucky to have avoided "the crash". I do miss riding but I have made the decision not to as my wife is a challenging passenger in a car let alone in the wind. My wife made me give up riding too! Although, before we got married there was nothing she liked more than a Sunday morning jet up to Vermont or the Catskills for brunch and a pleasant ride home. I flipped a GSXR 1100 at about 172 and slid over 100 yards. I hit the ground so hard it split the seams of my leathers and blew both boots off. $1400 Bates full race leathers! 😳 No skin from the bottom of my helmet to below my butt, and I ground through the side of my foot (showing bone in my ankle and pinky toe) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat in tn Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 My wife made me give up riding too! Although, before we got married there was nothing she liked more than a Sunday morning jet up to Vermont or the Catskills for brunch and a pleasant ride home. I flipped a GSXR 1100 at about 172 and slid over 100 yards. I hit the ground so hard it split the seams of my leathers and blew both boots off. $1400 Bates full race leathers! 😳 No skin from the bottom of my helmet to below my butt, and I ground through the side of my foot (showing bone in my ankle and pinky toe) proof that it's not the speed that kills but the blunt deceleration trauma. not pleasant either way. you live to tell it so there is that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 proof that it's not the speed that kills but the blunt deceleration trauma. not pleasant either way. you live to tell it so there is that. I drive a roll-back. I can tell you, it's not the speed, but the sudden stop at the end. Acceleration, deceleration, whatever... Trees don't move, nor do bridge abutments (usually 😯) The whole point of that airbag exploding into your face is to give you milliseconds instead of nanoseconds to come to a stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat in tn Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 I drive a roll-back. I can tell you, it's not the speed, but the sudden stop at the end. Acceleration, deceleration, whatever... Trees don't move, nor do bridge abutments (usually 😯) The whole point of that airbag exploding into your face is to give you milliseconds instead of nanoseconds to come to a stop. about 20 years ago my younger brother tried to push over a 20" plus cedar tree with his foxbody. the tree did not move. shortened the car 3' in line with the driver. this is a case where the seat belt would have killed him. nobody wants to hear that, but no safeties are foolproof. they only increase your odds of safety. in his case he was spit half out of the car when it tried to spin around the tree. his right shoe was still folded between the seat and brake pedal when I got there. He survived but he does walk funny to this day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85lebaront2 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Impressive model. I really appreciate attention to detail, and that is good stuff right there. Here will be tomorrow a link to the video of it running on the 6 AA batteries it uses: For some reason YouTube is saying it won't be available until tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essmaker Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Here will be tomorrow a link to the video of it running on the 6 AA batteries it uses: For some reason YouTube is saying it won't be available until tomorrow. Boat finally back in the water again for the summer!! Going to tune up a pair of bigger motors (twin 454) overnight Friday and then back to the barn on Saturday to make some more progress on the trucks body work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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