tufftom4

I can't see them here in Florida.

Noone said we were normal.

I think I will start a new thread and instead of a M/E or Maint day I will get a cripple get together day....

I do all my exercises that P/T gave me 3 times a day they do not me to do weights yet since all the fractures have not healed since the surgery but I feel the plate and it is uncomfortable.

I would like to buy KBRAN's bike and I have the money to send him. I have so many parts for the first gen like new tires body parts rectifiers and more but I am worried about the weight issue now.

I am in no way ready to ride again and would love to get another Venture but I don't think I could ever handle the weight of one with my shoulder the way it was reconstructed, so I found this 79 XS Eleven special. I have owned 2 one 79 and one 82 the 82 I took cross country. This one looks like showroom condition and is not far from me. What do you folks think. Tom http://spacecoast.craigslist.org/mcy/2660049568.html

Wish I could ride with you Rick but no bike and still healing, I could meet you for lunch sometime and CaptD is gonna be around this weekend and may stop over my house.

The cooler and trailer made it fine and the cooler was clean as a whistle. I am still healing had P/T today and going to the Dr tomorrow to see if the plate and screws are holding, and Rick if you are down this way call, 2 guys with broken ribs hanging together should be a blast...

I finally got the trailer home Sunday and unloaded most of it and found my digital camera with pics from Vogel I hope you enjoy.

I am heading to Crooked river st park near the border of Ga and Fl tomorow if anyone wants to have a bbg or hang with a cripple.

I finaly got well enough to go back to Ga and get my trailer. I just left Kirbys house and I think his dogs wanted me and my two small ones for lunch. I got it back to the campground and can't believe the stuff I packed and how the Venture was able to tow it. I still want to say thanks to my Venture family for helping me out during this ordeal.

Happy B-DAY

My prayer is sent.

Welcome to the site you will find some of the best people here and some that are 5 beers short of a six pack, like myself, but I am harmless. I live in sunny Florida where every road is flat.

Prayers sent.

I live in Florida why store anything????

I was hoping for some deer meat dang it.

In Florida you are not required to have insurance on a motorcycle unless of course you owe money on it, so I did not put insurance on my bike because I thought if I got in an accident I would be dead and would not care, well here I am with almost 100,000 in medical bills and still kicking so it was a tough lesson to learn.

I replaced the springs in both my 84 & 86 VR and it was pretty easy the hard part was no store near me carried the 17mm allen socket that is needed so I had to order one, if you need it I can ship it to you because they are not cheap.

Make sure everyone wears long pants and a jacket unlike myself and watch out for old ladies...And have a great ride.

Who Was Kilroy? http://65.55.72.215/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=4e536413-eab5-11e0-9a75-002264c249e4&attindex=1&cp=-1&attdepth=1&imgsrc=cid%3a1.1068809335%40web180314.mail.gq1.yahoo.com&shared=1&hm__login=tufftom4&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.13.166.8&d=d4301&mf=0&hm__ts=Thu%2c%2029%20Sep%202011%2016%3a29%3a54%20GMT&st=tufftom4&hm__ha=01_f2be006a545dfa74304581fa142d7d8d78f76461c245526a3b1807a39fa15535&oneredir=1 For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history. Anyone born in the teens, twenties, and mid-thirties, is familiar with Kilroy. We didn't know why, but we had lapel pins with his nose hanging over the label and the top of his face above his nose with his hands hanging over the label. No one knew why he was so well known, but we all joined in! So who the heck was Kilroy? In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article. Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax, Massachusetts, had evidence of his identity. Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy . His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark. Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters. One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on. The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his checkmark on each job he inspected, but added KILROY WAS HERE in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message. Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks. Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With the war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced. His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific. Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo. To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had "been there first." As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived. Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest , the Statue of Liberty, the underside of l'Arc De Triomphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon. As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were the first GI's there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo! In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference. Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?" To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy front yard in Halifax, Massachusetts . So, now you know!

I had my stitches taken out today and the Dr said it was healing good and my ribs are doing good. I start rehab Monday but the plate in my shoulder is still a little uncomfortable. Tom

i do concrete work if you pay me up front.

I am so glad to hear you are ok, I just got back from the dr's for a follow up on having a plate put in my shoulder and had fluid drained from my lung yesterday so I know how much worse it can get. Give me a call if ya wanna talk. Tom

I go in tomorrow morning at 6:15 am to get a plate put in my shoulder, I hope it all works out and I can ride again soon. The whole accident has been a nightmare for me but I love my VR family they have been great. TOM