More Riding and lots of damage

[ISX]

Been riding all week and I decided to hydroplane across this huge water hole. It's about 100Ft long and 1-3ft deep. I tested several shallower areas to get the feel for it since I have never tried a water hole that long. I do this with the bike topped out which is over 80mph so I don't exactly want to screw up

Of course, all hell broke loose and the back end got to tail whipping which at 80+ is not good and it whipped harder and harder until throwing me off the bike and who knows what happened after that. I don't remember hitting the ground or seeing the bike hit the ground. I didn't get wet though, so I made it!!

The resulting damage...

Start with the bike I suppose. The bike was 100ft from where I ended up on the ground, I don't think it rolled that far exactly

As for me, somehow I made off with legs bruised really bad and my shoulder muscles got stretched, they called it some sorta "AC" something. Anyways here is the x ray showing, well I don't know what it shows, the bones were fine I guess so I don't see how they could see the muscle.

What they told me was it heals on its own, they used to do surgery on this type of injury but did more harm than good so now they just give you job excuses because all you need is time. Thing is, because the muscle is stretched, it kinda let the arm hang down with it and it will just renew itself like this. What I mean is when you look at this pic you can see one of my shoulders is more squared off and the other has 2 humps, the 2 humps one (your left in the pic, ok holding the camera kinda offsets this) is the one thats messed up.

Now I got a month vacation instead of a week, guess I can stare at my truck. I can't do anything with my arm (bad enough that it's my right arm) because it pulls on those muscles. Seems to be healing quickly since I managed to get it to the keyboard (hurt too much the other day).

Just figured I would share, thought it was all kinda neat, well maybe not neat as much as expensive but now you all know what not to do hahaha, buy a damn boat instead.

[dripley]

glad to see you are ok. will you be posting a video in the near future ? we might be able to get you on tv.

[Mopar1973Man]

ISX you crazy fool... Well at least you alive and OK but I'm sure your not going to try that twice are you???

[ISX]

No video, no nothing. Nobody was around. I just happened to have my cell phone with me so I just called my brother and told him to bring back the 4 wheeler cause we got a problem lol. I just wonder why it fishtailed. We took the 4 wheeler through it and there was a tree root in it and some ruts that may have thrown me off. If I knew the back tire wasn't able to sink low enough to hit the obstacles below the surface of the water, I uh, might try it again lol. I mean I did make it and it was pretty well staying on top of the water as planned, just fishtailing. But the guy I ride with didn't have anyone to ride with (I did this Wednesday and he showed up Friday) so I won't do it again just for his sake. Plus the bike might not take the brunt of the damage next time.. So I shall keep from doing that again. I haven't driven my truck either since I can hardly get my arm lifted onto the shifter, let alone pull it into gear. I didn't even ride in it on the 4 hour drive home.

[flagmanruss]

Keep this up & you'll have to drive an AUTOMATIC like me!

[LiveOak]

Glad to hear you are not tore up too bad. You should use this incident to consider looking at life and how you want to be physically inclined in your future. Take care of what you have and make it last. Everytime you sustain an injury like that, the injured area is NEVER the same again......and usually does not recover to as good as new. Take care and heal up.

[ISX]

I'm getting better. I used to do motocross but stopped doing that after the first accident. Now I just do trails and stuff which has proved to be very safe. What I did this time was kind of a fluke where I was out on my own and wanted to see if this could be done. I had done it many times before so I wasn't expecting the back end to go nuts. It will heal up and I will be back to doing just the trails. I go very fast on the trails but it is a lot easier to control, the only times I fall are at 5mph. Just because riding has its potential hazards of physical damage doesn't mean they are a bad thing. You live life to learn from mistakes, if you never make a mistake you will never learn. You can learn from other's mistakes but a lot of times there isn't any info on a certain thing (like what I did), now there is, so you guy's know not to try what I did lol. Even if you are careful your entire life, stay at home and exercise, you will end up getting cancer or something. A flawless life is nonexistent so you can screw it up on your own or let nature screw it up, but one way or another it will get screwed up. The important thing is to flow with the flaws that arise and make the best out of them. I can't use my right arm so I am forcing myself to become left handed, I think its a blast. Maybe I am just ate up but when life throws me a challenge I absolutely love to figure out a way around it, same with our trucks. Everything also poses a risk. You risk your life just driving down the road, I risk mine on my dirt bike, but I feel more comfortable on my dirt bike than on a road full of other people who could swerve into my lane at any second. I am so comfortable on my bike that I didn't have any doubt about the hydroplaning not working so I didn't see much of a risk and just went for it. Now all the flaws come out in 20/20 so I can learn from it. It's life. In retrospect, I wouldn't take back a single accident that has happened to me, they are worth a lot to learn from. Now maybe someday I will take a risk so big that I end up killing myself, but the way I see it the food we eat these days is about the same risk, same as driving down the interstate among many other things.

[dorkweed]

Jeez Louise ISX!!!!!!!:doh::duh: Nothing personal, but I cannot help it here...........I keep thinking of that line........."Picture of an idiot in action!!":smart: You're a "relatively" Southern boy, so I'll ask this...........before you attempted this, did you ask anyone, "Here, hold my beer", or did you just chug the last of it and toss the empty on the ground!!!!!!:lmao:Yup, I was young once also!!!! Hard to believe, I know!! But I've wised up in my time here on Earth. Sure glad you'll be OK..........I think............are you gonna still ride??!!!

[flagmanruss]

I keep thinking of the line "Hey, Ya'll watch this!" I did my crazy sh*t with 4 wheels under be (though sometimes they were not all on the ground at once). I had a 64 Chrysler very high in the air... about the 4th time I tried it, I blew out all 4 shocks on landing. Dumb @ss kids (we were).

[ISX]

Nobody was around and I spent 10 min wondering if I should do it. After several trial runs I saw no reason why it couldn't be done. I did still have a problem with going 80mph through that deep of water, but I figured it was just a personal problem so I ignored it lol. Yes I will still ride, I rode the 4 wheeler through the trails and almost flipped it 2 days after I got out of the hospital, and again 2 days after that. I just grab my right arm with the left arm and put it on the handlebar, then grip the bar so that my arm don't fall off it since I can't hold it there, then I do all the hard work of turning with the left arm. I wasn't expecting any sympathy here, just thought you guys would find the pics interesting...I know what I did sounds stupid but to me it's just like any other thing, like driving through st.louis sounds stupider to me lol.

[Mopar1973Man]

Your just plain but we all still care about ya...

[dripley]

i can't say i ever tried what you tried when i was in my 20's, but trust me there were plenty enough other things i have participated in just as crazy. i am the guy who would say Wactch this, as i was chugging the last of my beer and wondering if someone would have more when i was done with what ever.:lmao2::lmao2:not laughing at you, laughing with you. some times you just have to go for it. but for me at the age of 58 i don't bounce near as well as i used to.

[Rogan]

I'll pass.. LOLHope you heal well and fast, ISX!

[jlwelding]

I am going to guess and say the back tire was trying to push, when I did this (back when dinosuars where around) I let off just a little due to the drag, at some point it cant stay a float.

[ISX]

I'll just video tape it next time. I ask myself so many questions about what happened, as do others, video woulda been so much easier lol. Maybe in 5 or 10 or 15 years i'll try it again, cept it will be a bike I don't want and it will be heading into an ocean so I can just land in the water when it peters out

[Mopar1973Man]

He must be healing if he's working the site over and coming up with ideas...

[ISX]

Yeah I don't have to pick my arm up and put it on the mouse with the left arm anymore. Doctor Monday