Andy get well soon fella and btw you are the most tidy person i have ever seen...where have you hidden all the crap that most of us have surrounding/covering our bikes in the garage. you already have luxury bike accomodation:biggrin:
Back on the road.....nearly Well it's been a long winter!!..........taken a bit longer than expected for me to recover but pretty much there now. Haven't been able to ride to date but the bike came out the bubble a few weeks back in anticipation. No riding but I've not been idle.....tease: Plastics / fairing panles for sale. Apologies for the eBay link but all the details are there already.......obviously will to deal off eBay! :-O andyw9999 | eBay Reason for not having ridden for so long.....trouble with my latest titanium part acquisition!
Hey Andy, That looks a bit technical on the foot and hope it's well on the mend. How come you're selling the Red bodywork? Mine has been kept in at the Dr's awaiting go ahead from DUK. I am also chasing Bologna to see if they can sort a temporary bike out for Portugal. A bit of a longshot I guess.
lol.....sort of (more so when it had stainless steel wire threaded through it!;-) Ian, probably one of the least technical 'jobs' they've done on me! Red panels.........get bored being unable to ride, a few 'changes' have been taking place over the last few weeks! Photos to come. I gathered things had progressed with the bike....saw a post on FB the other day - I'll email when I get a minute. Loan MTS1200 - a long shot probably but not an unreasonable expectation imho! (try asking DUK as well....I'm sure they have a few hanging around ;-)
External fixator? The lower break on my femur was non union for a while, and an external fixator was potentially on the cards as they would have had to neaten up the bone ends, then use a fixator to get the length back later. Fortunately the bones did eventually decide to start to join. Grim
Yes, external fixator....Taylor Spatial Frame ;-) Because of the 'jigsaw puzzle' nature of the fractures and loss of bone fragments I had a frame on from week two. Shudder!......'non union' :frown: Whilst my tibial plateau and foot fractures were mending normally the main impact site mid Tib didn't play ball (not unexpectedly they eventually told me about 8 months later....nature of 'high energy' trauma apparently). Ended up in the frame for 15 months and the Tib was only mending then due to cutting edge/new science procedure of using a man made protein, Bone Morphogenetic Protein......still spent two months is a cast after that! :-O Ride safe and beware all those idiots out there! ...there was an upside to my crash eventually..........some of the compensation money put the Mutley in the garage :biggrin:
I preferred the old fashioned pins where you could try turning them every so often in the hope that when they removed them they didn't stick. Last time I had any pins installed was when I mashed a finger and they left a pair of them sticking out of the end of the finger and I was able to take them halfway out then replace them for the last week before they were actually removed. I think it was a bit obvious because the surgeon asked if I'd been removing them so I could ride a motorbike though he might have got the idea after I told him to fuse it in a position where I could still operate the throttle and front brake easily :smile:
Clever trick.......not possible with a frame though.......cleaning the pin and post sites hurts like a b*tch!
I can almost feel it but I used to think that if I was moving them around I could stop when it started to hurt too much whereas nurses were usually closet sadists and didn't like people who'd crashed motorbikes but said they'd ride them again. It's a bastard that they don't let you keep the metalwork any more because you could have had a right laugh building things out of that lot once it's been removed.
This makes my bike problems seem very trivial. DUK did the business for me and an MTS1200 GT awaits. The ONE catch is the dealer supplying can't/won't insure it for Europe. I didn't realise what a problem this would be! My insurance co and the other 15 or so I have spoken to all say they cannot insure as it's not my bike. Now running out of time.....don't panic, something good will happen.
Good on DUK.........Ducati insurance? Call: 0844 8800 960 or visit... Ducati Insurance - the official UK Ducati Insurance Scheme ...or maybe a phone call to DUK again? Oops....still not dropped you that email I mentioned the other day :frown: AndyB.....closet sadists! lol......nurses were pretty good in general, seemed to genuinely be sorry for causing pain.........now the physioterorists, no closet, just sadists lol I tried all sorts to keep the metalwork.....a kind of bizarre trophy!
