May 2008

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• Wrecked

  The Rider

  05.31.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  With all this talk about the bike, I know I haven’t talked much about how the guy who wrecked it is doing. He sent me some photos tonight (yes crappy cell phone photos) of his left arm and left leg where he’s still got some pretty bad road rash. This is a little [...]

• Wrecked

  Starting The Rebuilding Process

  05.31.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’ve been ordering parts like crazy this week, and slowly but surely the bike is being put back together. We don’t own a stand, and our bike doesn’t use spools so we can’t borrow Alli’s. Ben decided to build his own hoist for the tear down. He is a master carpenter after [...]

• Off Topic

  Tearing Into It

  05.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  We got a lot done on the bike today. We spent a few hours last night and a couple hours today removing things to see exactly what is damaged. We already had a partial list of stuff we figured was damaged, but we took some time today to inspect everything for a full [...]

• Off Topic

  The Daylight Photos

  05.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Now that it’s daylight I had a chance to get outside and take a better look at the bike. Yeah of course it looks a lot worse than it did last night in the dark. At least at this point I’m calm. I’ve been up all night pretty much waiting for daylight [...]

• Safety, video

  Bike Wrecked: Damage Video

  05.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today has definitely been a long day, and hubby is more glad than ever that he took that trip to Deal’s Gap yesterday. He got to enjoy the bike, and he got to enjoy having his suspension setup properly for exactly 1 day.
  Tonight our friend borrowed the bike. His Jeep’s broke down, and [...]