Anyone help with a tank move? Calgary monday night

[michika]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

In the fall I dislocated my shoulder (ow, btw - all I'll say is, don't ever do this if you can avoid it) and broke off my "greater tuberosity of the humurus." It's some little nub like thing on the ball of your arm socket. .

I think you mean greater tubercle, which is number 1. Its the part of your shoulder bone that you can palpitate. Its a ridge/bump that muscle connects to.

[Delphinus]

Hey I'm just telling you what they told me. I even had to get them to write it down, because I was like .. my what? My tuba what? My tuber? Porosity?
So anyhow, it is the "greater tuberosity". On the diagram where it shows you the tubercle, it's some extrusion or .. Gads, I don't know how to describe it, the actual report uses terms like "lateral and something something aspects" .. it's completely over my head.

Anyhow, don't ask me what a tuberosity is. I'm no anatomyist.

So basically what you're telling me is, the doctors just made up the term on the spot just to see me try to wrack my brain trying to comprehend it. I KNEW IT! DANG IT!!!!

"Hee hee, this guy is totally hopped up on Entenox, let's see what we can get him to believe!! <snicker snicker> Yeah, you, um, fractured your seventh Boykersity of your lateral and anterior aspects of your boogaboogbabone. You're going to have to rest that for 17 weeks!! No trying to move it now!!"

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Oh, I once broke my boogaboogbabone...except it was the posterior aspects. If you get my drift.


Huh?

[Delphinus]

Ok, I guess it's not completely made up. Same thing, different name.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference...cts/subject/51

Take a line and slice off the very corner of that thing. That's what I did (..it was surprisingly easier than you might think. All you need is a mountain bike, and a mountain.)

Actually today I go to have my (hopefully) last x-ray of it done. Yay! My mobility is mostly back but there are just certain things I still have trouble with. Last week I was trying to empty a packet of sugar into my coffee. I can extend my arm, and I can rotate my arm. But extend AND rotate? Wow, that's a surprisingly complex motion. I could do it but I really had to concentrate. Oh the joys. I don't want to break another greater tuberosity of the humerus. I can scratch that one off the list of "things I've done to myself."

[Parker]

How was Whistler besides the broken bones? I tried to make out there this year to ride but it didn't happen. I planned to drive out there but my little Focus burned 1.75 tanks of gas to Banff alone with the bikes on the roof. Might have to figure out how to get them inside the car!

[Delphinus]

It's absolutely amazingly awesome wicked. There's really nothing out our way that compares. Well, places like Panorama, Fernie, Kicking Horse come sort of close, but really, Whistler is ground-zero of the sport. C.O.P. in Calgary is not bad for diversity I guess but the sheer vertical you get at Whistler ... there's really nothing that compares. I met with riders from all over the place, Australia, New Zealand, U.K., U.S., .. they come from all over to ride Whistler. Each run has you riding for like 30-40 minutes at a time, minimum (and I didn't even make it up to the top half of the mountain) and you're fully engaged every second of the way. There's no .. how can you describe .. there's no "down time" or "slow time" between the technical parts for you to sort of catch your breath. It's drops, berms, jumps, ladders, single-track ... There's something for everyone. And you'll catch glimpses of the pro riders too since most of them call Whistler their home base too. Really neat to see these guys (and up and comers) ply their craft. It's totally worth going to, just be sure you're in good bike shape, really easy to get yourself into trouble there as I found out.

In all honestly, depends on what you're riding right now, but you might want to consider renting if you do go. I don't think I'd want to ride 6" travel bike out there, I managed to fully compress my 8" travel bike on a couple occasions.

A-Line is soooooo much fun. Yeah, do go if you get the chance.

[Parker]

Cool, I'll have to make it a point to make it there next year! I'm only running a six inch travel Rocky right now, not much use for anything bigger here in Edmonton unless you huck, which I'm getting to old for! lol. So I'll have to rent once I get out there.

[Skimmer Juice]

O we got some riders on hear, that is good to see, I work at B&P cycle.

[danny zubot]

I planned to drive out there but my little Focus burned 1.75 tanks of gas to Banff alone with the bikes on the roof. Might have to figure out how to get them inside the car!

I wouldn't think that a bike would have that much drag on top of a car! Would it be much better if you had the bikes rear mounted?

[Parker]

Originally Posted by danny zubot

I wouldn't think that a bike would have that much drag on top of a car! Would it be much better if you had the bikes rear mounted?

That's with two bikes on the roof one wheels on and the other fork mount. Rear mount would make a huge difference but would render my hatch useless with the bikes on, I also wasn't thinking about higway travel when I bought my racks and I have too much invested to start over again with a hitch mount.

The Focus's aren't known for great gas millage to start with, so that doesn't help.