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alliwanttodoisclimb
Mar 21, 2005, 1:49 PM
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I know it's kinda not that related, but...I just fell off my mototrcycle to-day. I'm not feeling especially bad, just bruised and sore all down the right side of my body. Anybody got any advice on how long I should wait before I start climbing again?...I'm supposed to be going away next weekend!
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edge
Mar 21, 2005, 2:13 PM
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I think your description as to the extent of your injuries makes this one a little hard to answer.
Also, unless you aquired these injuries while motorcycle jumping to a landing atop a sea stack, then I'm afraid it's off to Community. Don't let that worry you, however, as at least 5% of the people down here are climbers in real life.
Cheers, and good luck healing quickly!
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edge
Mar 21, 2005, 2:13 PM
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edge moved this thread from Injuries & Accidents to Community.
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tgreene
Mar 21, 2005, 3:05 PM
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I've been in a couple of motorcycle wrecks, and any accident that you can walk away from, is a minor accident! :wink:
You did state that you have bruising, which is internal/external damage to soft tissues. If you're not too sore, then I would take it easy but still clilmb, as long as you know to quit as soon as your body begins to feel extra tender or painful in those areas.
If you have any road rash, then you absolutely should not be doing anything other than resting and tending to the abrasions, because road rash infections can quickly become very serious if they don't heal properly and quickly.
If your joints ache or if you have any sharp pains, the DO NOT climb until this has subsided, because it's too easy for a serious injury to be masked by other pain and discomfort. In fact, if you are suffering from any sharp pains in these areas, then get your ass to a hospital for x-rays! :shock:
FWIW: Of the accidents I've had, only once was I wearing a helmet at the time (which I rarely wore anyway), and thank God I was, because I was thrown and my head hit the sharp jagged edge of a corrugated drainage pipe. Had I not been wearing a lid, my skull would have been sliced in half! :idea:
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shortfatoldguy
Mar 21, 2005, 4:29 PM
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ATGATT = All the gear, all the time. (Lid; armored gloves; jacket with armor in the elbows, shoulders, and spine; boots; pants w/armor in the knees and preferably also in the hips.) Leather is best, but textile is better than nothing.
Riding a motorcycle is far more dangerous than climbing. There's too much outside your control (other vehicles, all of which are trying to kill you; schit in the road). And then there are your own mistakes...
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the_pirate
Mar 21, 2005, 5:01 PM
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In reply to: Anybody got any advice on how long I should wait before I start climbing again?... |
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shortfatoldguy
Mar 22, 2005, 5:17 AM
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In reply to: EVERYONE who rides has a terrible story, you just gotta ask yourself if it's worth it i guess....
I just read somebody's sig line on one of the sportbikes boards. It was a quote that went something like "Racing motorcycles makes heroin addiction look like a vague taste for something salty." I just started riding last year, but I'm already convinced that if I die before I drag a knee on the track I won't have given adequate expression to my humanity. Or something. (Where is the emoticon for "ready to kill something if I don't get a fix"?)
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vivalargo
Mar 22, 2005, 4:37 PM
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Motorcycling is a blast, espcially at high speeds, but here in LA, Cal., the traffic is so bad and the drives so edgy that bikes are like moving targets. About 20 years ago I was riding a HD Sportster and a car pulled out right in front of me. I t-boned the back of he car, and summersalted over the trunk landing on my feet. Luckliy I was only going about 20, but i got a heel bruise that lasted a month and my shoulders were tweaked for a while as well. But it could have been much worse.
Sadly, just yeserday driving home from work, traffic was horrendous, and soon enough I passed a bunch of cop cars blocking the left lane which had a cumpled up bike and a body laying under a tarp. Bad.
As much as I'd like to get back on a bike, I can't imagine doing it here in LA.
JL
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shortfatoldguy
Mar 22, 2005, 6:58 PM
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In reply to: Sadly, just yeserday driving home from work, traffic was horrendous, and soon enough I passed a bunch of cop cars blocking the left lane which had a cumpled up bike and a body laying under a tarp. Bad. As much as I'd like to get back on a bike, I can't imagine doing it here in LA. JL
My SO and I are planning to get over to north-central OR for a two-day ride this weekend on back roads. Few cars, no cops. Just us, the bikes, and the roads. And while we love to ride, we're not nuts about pushing our (still young) skills too far.
We went on a big group ride a couple of weeks ago that was part of a skills clinic. Jeezus H, did those people ride fast... I kept thinking that it doesn't matter how "mad" your "skillz" are, if you outride your sight line in the turns you're asking for death/dismemberment.
That's why, finances permitting, I want to start spending time on the track. I just can't lean it over enough on the roads without taking stupid risks.
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one900johnnyk
Mar 23, 2005, 7:45 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: EVERYONE who rides has a terrible story, you just gotta ask yourself if it's worth it i guess.... Yeah, ya do, I guess. Same thing one might say about climbing. Or smoking. Or walking out your F'ing door in the morning.
as scared as i might be fifteen ft above my last piece on a 5.9 trad route, at least i don't have to worry about a blind old lady or a semi merging into me at 90 kilometers per hour... if there's one thing i learned it's that people are f'in dumb, and you take a more frequent chance with your life in the white knuckled hands of a stranger on the road than you ever will climbing..... i have missed riding, but i haven't missed flying thirty feet through the air and slamming into the pavement...
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climbinganne
Mar 23, 2005, 7:50 PM
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:roll: glad ur ok, jonnyk
glad you are too, who :?:
where's cam when you need a good rap
thinkin' i need a spankin, where's that strap?
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shortfatoldguy
Mar 23, 2005, 9:59 PM
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In reply to: people are f'in dumb, and you take a more frequent chance with your life in the white knuckled hands of a stranger on the road than you ever will climbing.....
Yes! But does that mean the risk isn't worth taking? Everybody's gotta make that call for him/herself. I choose--for now, anyway--to wear full gear, assume they all want to kill me, and ride.
I just got my bike out of the shop. I am so *happy*. Like a leetle guurrhllll...
It's valves are adjusted. It's fuel-air mixture is purrfect. It has Torque. And the if weather gods smile, my lover and I are going to ride our bikes all over north-central Oregon this weekend. This makes me happy.
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gripjudgement
Mar 23, 2005, 11:17 PM
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i would say, start rock climbing right now!
just kidding! :lol:
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