Mark "Velosapiens" Weaver Injury Report
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From: Wudsracer on 30 May 2007 23:31 >On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:08:58 -0400, "Dean H." <moto(a)groove.calm> wrote: >"Joseph Rooney" >> >> Could you copy and paste the details from KTM talk? My current >> HusqvarnaTalk account requires exclusivity and I can't or don't want to >> join >> KTM Talk. > >Wow, yeah that's some hoops to jump through getting into that special little >world. Sort of that teutonic "it's not easy being superior" kind of >attitude. They probably don't want my type there anyway. > ************************************************* They probably don't care much for my presence, either, but it didn't stop me. <VBG> I joined a couple of years ago in order to spam the classifieds there about a KTM pipe I had for sale. The membership still works. Wudsracer/Jim Cook Smackover Racing '06 Gas Gas DE300 '82 Husqvarna XC250 Team LAGNAF
From: oldfart on 30 May 2007 23:38 I wouldn't want to join a club that would have someone like me for a member. Marx On May 30, 8:31 pm, Wudsracer <dirtbike_smackoverRem...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:08:58 -0400, "Dean H." <m...(a)groove.calm> wrote: > >"Joseph Rooney" > > >> Could you copy and paste the details from KTM talk? My current > >> HusqvarnaTalk account requires exclusivity and I can't or don't want to > >> join > >> KTM Talk. > > >Wow, yeah that's some hoops to jump through getting into that special little > >world. Sort of that teutonic "it's not easy being superior" kind of > >attitude. They probably don't want my type there anyway. > > ************************************************* > > They probably don't care much for my presence, either, but it didn't > stop me. <VBG> > I joined a couple of years ago in order to spam the classifieds there > about a KTM pipe I had for sale. > The membership still works. > > Wudsracer/Jim Cook > Smackover Racing > '06 Gas Gas DE300 > '82 Husqvarna XC250 > Team LAGNAF
From: scrape on 30 May 2007 23:45 On Wed, 30 May 2007 17:44:46 -0700, "Joseph Rooney" <ikerooneyat(a)pcmagic.net> wrote: > ><dennisbk(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >news:1180568788.406336.144910(a)z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com... >> On May 30, 3:47 pm, WoodsChick <TamiRow...(a)msn.com> wrote: >> > Seems Mark went and got hisself hurt last weekend. >> > Compound fracture of his left femur...ouch! >> > >> > http://ktmtalk.com/index.php?showtopic=232148 >> > >> > Here's to a quick and relatively pain-free recovery, Mark! >> > >> > Tami- >> >> I was camped at Winom Frazier with my family. It's an annual thing >> for us. I'm sorry we missed you guys. I'm also sorry to hear about >> Mark's injuries. I hope there's no permanent damage and he heals >> quickly. >> Dennis Kennedy >> '98 XR400 > >Woodschick, > >Could you copy and paste the details from KTM talk? My current >HusqvarnaTalk account requires exclusivity and I can't or don't want to join >KTM Talk. > >Get better Mark! tresa and i were on an atv-width trail, hemmed in by low dense trees, on a very gentle curve, so there was limited sight distance but not any terrain reason to slow down.i was probably doing 20-ish. we had just turned onto the trail and i caught a little air over a water bar, and was going to jump another one. my estimate of the other rider's speed is kinda guesswork, but it happened MUCH faster than any similar situation i have ever been in, with zero time for corrective action. by the time i realized he was there, i was lying on the ground, and not feeling too great. i couldn't feel anything near my knee, although my foot still worked, and i could clench my toes and move my ankle and stuff. it seemed pretty obvious that my upper leg and lower leg were not really connected any more, since moving one had no effect on the other. since all the numbness was in my knee, i was kinda thinking dislocation, but not really interested in taking a look at that particular time. within a few seconds i heard more bikes coming (we hadn't seen anyone in hours) and tresa alertly ran down the trail waving her arms to make sure i didn't get run into again. after a few minutes of assessing the situation, and the other guy's injuries (not as serious), i sent tresa out to the road to find someone with an atv. some of you may realize what a cranky impatient little biatch i can be, and no one thought it was a great idea to just keep laying there and waiting for the sun to go down, so 2 fellows got some branches and splinted my leg with electrical tape to see if i could stand up on the other leg. that worked out ok, so we started thinking about one of them riding me out, but it was obvious that my foot was going to dangle on the ground, which didn't seem like fun. so i wisely had them lift me up so my right leg was on the peg, and just rested my left leg on the other peg to keep it from flopping, and had them start the bike and put it in gear and give me a little push, and i rode out the 2.5 miles to the road, standing on one foot, and hoping no one would come the other way, since my ability to take evasive action was pretty limited. at the intersection with the pavement, tresa and a guy with a truck were already there, and i managed to shout out to support me when i stopped so i wouldn't fall over. so they got me into this guy's truck (Rex) and he drove us back to our camp about 40 mins away, then dirtchic's family got me situated in the back of my truck and tresa drove me an hour to lagrande. at the hospital in lagrande they took xrays but by the time they cut my pants off it was pretty obvious that i had a busted femur. only a small part or two had actually poked out of the skin about 5" or so above the kne towards the inside. the ends of the bone were a ways away from each other. so lagrande had no ortho available, so they flew me to boise. after getting hurt around 430, getting to lagrande around 730, i left there around 10-11 and got into boise about midnight. the ortho guy on call had a car accident victim to deal with first that was in danger of losing his leg, so i just hung out until 7 or so when they got me into surgery. initially, the doc thought it would be pretty straightforward, the bone was broken clean through about 4" above the knee, so he was just going to zip in, insert a rod to hold it all together, and sew me back up. once he got in there tho, it turned out that the lower section of bone was split in 2 pieces all the way to the knee joint, so he ended up using a metal plate and a buncha screws to put it all back together. looks like i'll be on crutches for 6 weeks. right now i can hop around a little, get up to pee, etc..... The keep giving me nasty painkillers that make me sick to my stomach and i keep asking for less and less. i went entirely without them the night after surgery cuz i was sick of being nauseous. the worst part for me is not being able to comfort tresa. it was quite a shock to her to get the call on the way back from oregon that one of her close friends had been killed earlier in the weekend. now i feel pretty helpless. thankfully i should be going home today, so i can at least be a burden on her, lol. thanks to all for the pm's. i'm not feeling well enough to answer them just at the moment, but i will get to it soon. -mark ---- Go fast and aim for where the trees aren't. ----
From: scrape on 31 May 2007 00:15 On 30 May 2007 20:38:00 -0700, oldfart <alan.westcoast(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I wouldn't want to join a club that would have someone like me for a >member. Marx Imagine all the people. -Lennon ---- Go fast and aim for where the trees aren't. ----
From: Dean H. on 31 May 2007 07:09
>>I wouldn't want to join a club that would have someone like me for a >>member. Marx > > Imagine all the people. > -Lennon Eventually it was discovered That God Did not want us to be All the same This was BAD NEWS For the Governments of The World As it seemed contrary To the doctrine of Portion Controlled Servings Mankind must be made more uniformly If THE FUTURE Was going to work Various ways were sought To bind us all together But, alas SAMENESS was unenforceable It was about this time That someone Came up with the idea of TOTAL CRIMINALIZATION Based on the principle that If we were ALL crooks We could at last be uniform To some degree In the eyes of THE LAW Shrewdly our legislators calculated That most people were Too lazy to perform a REAL CRIME So new laws were manufactured Making it possible for anyone To violate them any time of the day or night, And Once we had all broken some kind of law We'd all be in the same big happy club Right up there with the President, The most exalted industrialists, And the clerical big shots Of all your favorite religions TOTAL CRIMINALIZATION Was the greatest idea of its time And was vastly popular Except with those people Who didn't want to be crooks or outlaws, So, of course, they had to be TRICKED INTO IT... Which is one of the reasons why Music Was eventually made Illegal - The Central Scrutinizer |