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Making Progress
« on: October 24, 2021, 04:46:41 PM »
Still on a walker, but made ten free steps today, and later tested the seat height on a couple of the bikes.  It's a good thing that I haven't figured out how to mount that walker in a bike.

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Everything still hurts like **** , but I'm expanding the range of movement.   Just in time for winter. LOL

Tune in next month when we'll try to discover the optimum coats of wax for your little motorcycles.

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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2021, 04:59:23 PM »
Slow and steady wins the race. Happy to hear things are going well and.......that sure is a good looking Eldorado.  :thumb:
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2021, 05:04:29 PM »
Good on ya, mate!
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2021, 05:05:19 PM »
Way to go!
I still plan on sending those plates to ya!
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2021, 05:05:19 PM »

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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2021, 05:19:51 PM »
 :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: You can't keep a good man down!

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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2021, 05:21:23 PM »
Good deal!  Keep posting your progress
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2021, 05:42:02 PM »
Keep it up, Babaloo!  :wink:
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2021, 06:40:43 PM »
Good job👍

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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2021, 06:58:38 PM »
Progress is progress.  Good on ya'.
Is your wife doing as well as you?  I'm sorry, I don't recall her name or handle. 
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2021, 10:59:42 PM »
 :thumb:

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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2021, 02:52:20 AM »
Progress is progress.  Good on ya'.
Is your wife doing as well as you?  I'm sorry, I don't recall her name or handle.

Her name is Virginia.  You won't see her here, as she does not do internet.  🙂

She was a passenger on the bike, and very fortunate to walk away with a couple of minor bumps and bruises..... and has been a Saint thru this whole thing.
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2021, 05:33:19 AM »
Best wishes to you both.
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2021, 07:09:11 AM »
Great to see you swinging a leg over your bikes. They look good too.
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2021, 07:15:07 AM »
Go Kevin!  :thumb:
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2021, 07:43:28 AM »
Get well soon,glad Virginia is ok.

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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2021, 07:51:01 AM »
Keep on keeping on Kevin. 

My wife would be telling me that it is time to move on if that happened to me.  She wanted me to move on after my back infection because she didn't like seeing me in pain.  She won't ride with me anymore. 
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #16 on: October 25, 2021, 09:19:20 AM »
Glad to see you're healing and getting back in the saddle - even if riding is a ways off yet.  :thumb:

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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #17 on: October 25, 2021, 10:23:34 AM »
She was a passenger on the bike, and very fortunate to walk away with a couple of minor bumps and bruises..... and has been a Saint thru this whole thing.
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #18 on: October 25, 2021, 10:28:36 AM »
Glad to hear your improving been throwing a lot of prayers and good juju your way!
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #19 on: October 25, 2021, 11:21:00 AM »
heck yeah, man!  "A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step... to the garage to throw a leg over a motorcycle..."
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #20 on: October 25, 2021, 11:40:38 AM »
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #21 on: October 25, 2021, 01:28:24 PM »
Good to hear.
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #22 on: October 25, 2021, 01:38:33 PM »
Glad to hear that you're up and around, you have all winter to get strong.

Couldn't help but noting that your grin was a lot wider sitting on the guzzi, js  :thumb:
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2021, 09:36:41 PM »
Structured physical therapy is finished, so I joined the local YMCA and spending a bit of pool time.  It's working.

The weather has been nice and I've been riding the recently acquired Kawasaki 900 Vulcan.  I DID get the Eldorado 1400 out for an afternoon, but I'm gonna need to wait until I do that again.......  Still, it felt good.  You should have seen the Wife's face when I met her going the other way. 


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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2021, 10:17:29 PM »
We were admitting our hero’s in a previous Thread. Well, here is one of mine, KEVIN THE GREAT.
This guy took a lickin’ and has kept on ticking!!!

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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2021, 11:29:21 PM »
Merry Christmas to Kev and Virginia.

And Merry Christmas to everyone else here.  It's a week early but it seems to fit.

Stay movin'   :thumb:

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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #26 on: December 18, 2021, 08:07:37 AM »
We'll be rippin' around some Arkansas corners in the springtime Kev. Keep on truckin'!
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #27 on: December 18, 2021, 08:17:23 AM »
Thank you, thank you thank you EVERYONE for the encouragement.

Christmas is a week away, and after that, the days will be getting longer. 

Just yesterday, my lovely wife was taking motorcycle inventory and said "hey we don't have a Honda"

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I guess we're not finished with the Christmas shopping.
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2021, 08:45:04 AM »

Just yesterday, my lovely wife was taking motorcycle inventory and said "hey we don't have a Honda"


       Not to be rude, but why would you want one  :evil: jk  :evil:   

       I have a hard time wrapping my head around that Vulcan Kawi you picked up being a smaller bike, but if the lower seat height and lighter weight are a nice fit for you, good on ya.

      Glad to hear you're doing well and making serious headway.

      Stay safe and take care
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Re: Making Progress
« Reply #29 on: December 18, 2021, 02:56:59 PM »
GREAT to hear you're riding again! Always room for one more bike, right?  :thumb:

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