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:-/ wrote:
> On Dec 20, 4:13�pm, barb wrote:
>> Happily, some idiot turning left demolished
>> the wrist-damaging Twinstar. Pity. People said I was cute on it. Now
>> they say, "BMW doesn't make motorcycles!" and they fail to notice my
>> cuteness.
>
> Acuteness is in the eye of the beholder.

What's your angle?
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On Dec 21, 7:56 pm, Rich wrote:
> :-/ wrote:
> > On Dec 20, 4:13�pm, barb wrote:
> >> Happily, some idiot turning left demolished
> >> the wrist-damaging Twinstar. Pity. People said I was cute on it. Now
> >> they say, "BMW doesn't make motorcycles!" and they fail to notice my
> >> cuteness.
>
> > Acuteness is in the eye of the beholder.
>
> What's your angle?

My observation wasn't intended to be geometrically obtuse, but rather,
etymologically and perspicaciously acute, without offense to some
person's
self image.
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"Jim S." wrote:
> thanks , g!

Have you purchased a new helmet yet?

-=Grumbler
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"Grumbler" wrote in >
> Have you purchased a new helmet yet?
>

not yet, i can't even buckle a strap yet so i am waiting till i have both
hands again. sometime after the 9th.
jim
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"Rich" wrote in
> The osteo-arthritis stuff is no fun. I've had it in my right thumb, and
> it ultimately cleared up (mostly). Took a matter of months, but perhaps
> there is some light at the end of the carpal tunnel.
>
> I've recently been plagued with shoulder pains, and what seems to be
> working is (generic) Aspercreme to lower the pain level, and chiropractic
> to help put the parts back in place.

i ha a serious compression neck injury from a visor-flip-up at high speed in
a gale, followed by a diagnosis of ms a couple of years later, then the
deer-wreck. i actually have my own anesthesiologist so i have no shortage of
pain strategies. it's the strength issue in my right wrist that is the worst
of all of this stuff. my left hand is now the strong side, but the right
still has more dexterity.
my guitar playing actually improved after the deer whacking, but my desire
to ride fast on heavily wooded backroads has diminished greatly. i have this
little fear that there is a 250 lb buck behind every bush...
jim
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:13:33 -0800, "Jim S."
wrote:

>my guitar playing actually improved after the deer whacking,

I mentioned this to my wife -- a former professional guitarist and
music teacher -- and she tells me that this is not a well-regarded
method for musical advancement. I gather the "Suzuki method" refers
to something quite different.

>but my desire
>to ride fast on heavily wooded backroads has diminished greatly.

Funny thing about that. For six months after the last time I came off
(a lowsider, landing on my right shoulder), I felt a distinct twinge
in that shoulder every time I went into an even moderately tight
right-hand turn.

Al Moore
DoD 734
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In article ,
Alan Moore wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:13:33 -0800, "Jim S."
> wrote:
>
> >my guitar playing actually improved after the deer whacking,
>
> I mentioned this to my wife -- a former professional guitarist and
> music teacher -- and she tells me that this is not a well-regarded
> method for musical advancement. I gather the "Suzuki method" refers
> to something quite different.

I think the "Suzuki method" means putting your kids on Suzukis at a very
young age. That way they master traction-control skills by the time
they're twelve.

> >but my desire
> >to ride fast on heavily wooded backroads has diminished greatly.
>
> Funny thing about that. For six months after the last time I came off
> (a lowsider, landing on my right shoulder), I felt a distinct twinge
> in that shoulder every time I went into an even moderately tight
> right-hand turn.

Yeah, I've been there.

Between not having health insurance and having a carpooler, I'm not
riding as much as I have been over the past few years. At least I got
the garage door fixed, so that excuse is out of the way.

--
Timberwoof <me at timberwoof dot com>
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"Alan Moore" wrote in > Funny thing about that.
For six months after the last time I came off
> (a lowsider, landing on my right shoulder), I felt a distinct twinge
> in that shoulder every time I went into an even moderately tight
> right-hand turn.

The other thing, when I look into my rear view mirror while blasting down
280 at 7 am, I see...
satan!

yikes.
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