Bout died last week. Need friends to search with.

[PowerDubs]

I used to detect all the time, had a hunting buddy local and we went out a lot for a couple years.

We had a falling out because I was fed up with his selfishness, called him out on it and I haven’t hunted much since about March/April.

SOOO- I have been riding my motorcycle a lot instead.

On the 23rd I crashed. Went to ER, and spent a few days in the trauma center. Lacerated spleen, broken rib, left leg caught under the bike- swollen like a sausage and purple.

I’m alive, extremely sore, feel like people are stabbing me with knives in several spots when I try to move, cough, laugh. But I am getting better slowly every day.

I’ve been riding motorcycles since I was a little kid on a dirt bike, decades. I love it- but I never want to be in this pain again, or worse. Never want to put my wife through this again.

I live in NWNJ- just west of Hackettstown right outside Washington 07882.

If anyone is somewhat local and could use a hunting partner, or even a decent drive on a weekend is fine, I like adventure.

I would really like to get back out to detecting once I am able, and I plan on selling the bike.

 

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[Truth]

Yeah I had a CBR900 and just about got killed by a Utility vehicle moved out the way by seconds that was enough to sell it. You know what they say there’s two types of riders one that’s gone down and one that hasn’t gone down yet. Good luck to you my friend and get better.

1980 YZ80
Those where the days ))))

 

[CASPER-2]

get a 3 wheeler and good luck

 

[RustyGold]

Yeah, sometimes it’s impossible to keep the rubber side down. Glad you can still walk among us. Best of luck with the healing process.

 

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[boogeyman]

I used to detect all the time, had a hunting buddy local and we went out a lot for a couple years.

We had a falling out because I was fed up with his selfishness, called him out on it and I haven’t hunted much since about March/April.

SOOO- I have been riding my motorcycle a lot instead.

On the 23rd I crashed. Went to ER, and spent a few days in the trauma center. Lacerated spleen, broken rib, left leg caught under the bike- swollen like a sausage and purple.

I’m alive, extremely sore, feel like people are stabbing me with knives in several spots when I try to move, cough, laugh. But I am getting better slowly every day.

I’ve been riding motorcycles since I was a little kid on a dirt bike, decades. I love it- but I never want to be in this pain again, or worse. Never want to put my wife through this again.

I live in NWNJ- just west of Hackettstown right outside Washington 07882.

If anyone is somewhat local and could use a hunting partner, or even a decent drive on a weekend is fine, I like adventure.

I would really like to get back out to detecting once I am able, and I plan on selling the bike.


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Wow! first thought was sure glad he had a bucket on!!!!

Bet you are too. Keep getting better!

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Wow...hope you get healed up soon, and glad you had your skid-lid on! Been riding over 30 yrs, and have found out at least 2 things out about some people in cars..1- They don't see you...2-They see you but don't care. Good luck getting better and finding a new hunting buddy, I've had to give a couple the boot for back-dooring me on one of my best permissions. Ddf.

 

[devldog]

Wow, this could have been a lot worse, but I'm glad it wasn't. Here's hoping you make a full and speedy recovery. Best of luck to you getting back into detecting and finding a hunting pard.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Glad you are on the road to recovery!

GL & HH

 

[trdking]

I loaned my 900 Ninja Daytona to my riding buddy and best friend one week before High School Graduation. He did not make it. I named my son after him and miss him everyday. I have not been on a street Bike since. Well over 30 years. There are two types of riders those that have been down and those that will go down. It happens, you are fortunate.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Sucks you ain't closer man! I struggle with the same thing. Had 2 hunting buddies for years, but for whatever reasons, they don't get out any and i'm typically hunting alone ( Sad music playing)

 

[tahomatom]

Hang in there. The pain will get better in time but more than anything it just wasn't your time and maybe someone else will read your post and sell their bike before something happens.
Sold mine after getting some weird feelings about riding. Glad I did cuz like people say it's not if you go down, it's when you go down.

 

[Rookster]

Hope you make it back soon. I've got a hunting buddy but he works and I hunt alone most of the time. I've got some good premissions and some better prospects but they are in really questionable locals. I carry most of the time but with that said, I really had rather have another detector with me. I assume a lot of us are in that position.

 

[CaptnJohn]

Yes, I'd like to find someone along the NC/SC border coast!

 

[Holyground]

I bought a beautiful Harley. Every time (almost) I went for a ride, some YO-YO would either pull completely out in front of me or look as if they would at any moment. One day, this young kid comes to a stop, looks both ways, then burns out right in front of me. I swerved around the back of his car, nearly taking my right leg off on his rear bumper. Missed by 2 inches. I proceeded on, and in a few miles, another YO-YO pulls out, sees me, then stops, in the middle of the road, appoligizing, as I swerved around the front of him, into oncomming traffic. Another near miss. At that moment, I began to wonder how much of a loss I would take from selling my Harley. I actually did okay, however, two weeks later, but any price was fine, as opposed to dying at the hands of a YO-YO, which is the inevitable outcome when driving amongst them, unprotected. My Dodge Cummins Ram will turn them into mincemeat pie, if they pull out in front of me. That is the only advantage I feel comfortable with, when it comes to YO-YOs. If you have a street bike and you ride it regularly, please check the organ donor box. Other motorcycle riders are depending upon you to do so. Remember, the life expectancy of a rider in Phoenix is 7 years.
96 Stay on the trail 96

 

[Keppy]

I plan on selling the bike.


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Smart thing to do most bikers are old men that want other ones to think they are young and virile again ... And in some of there minds they even fool them self.