Jer
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I am not certain if this report is a ride report, injury report or maybe an other bike report, but here it is.
I purchased a 2014 650 V-Strom while in Oregon this summer. I plan to keep it in California for my winter riding.
My wife didn't want me to ride it down here so I had it shipped by a local motorcycle shipping company. It turned out to be a wise decision considering that we had rain and high winds from Salem all the way to Sacramento.
The bike arrived a few days behind us in a long trailer loaded with bikes sitting side by side. Next to mine was and identical bike, same year, same color. Tony the driver, who I had met in Salem when I delivered the bike for shipping, made a point of showing this to me. He told me that he would tell the other owner and thought that maybe the two of us would like to go on some rides together.
After Tony made the delivery to the other owner he called with his phone number. I called and found that he is from Beaverton, OR and lives in LaQuinta about five miles from my home in Bermuda Dunes. We decided to meet for coffee on Wednesday and then take a ride around the Salton Sea.
On the day beforeI decided to prepare our golf cart for selling. Won't be needing it anymore after quitting the CC in the spring. While vacuuming the carpets I decide to vacuum under the seat. I raised it up began vacuuming when suddenly the heavy seat with its metal leading edge came down on my arm and hand tearing off most of the skin on the back of my hand. I rushed into the house with a trail of blood behind me and asked my wife to drive me to the ER in Indio. She wrapped a towel around my hand and we took off for the ER. They took me right in and they pulled the skin back in place and applied small band aids to hold it there. They then bandaged the hand up and made me wait until they thought the bleeding had stopped. Then I was released to go home.
Picture of Bandages Hand
for those of you with stronger stomachs here is a picture without the bandages a week or so later.
https://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee190/maness4golf/DSCN0332.jpg
I was really looking forward to meeting Jim and putting some miles on the new bike and nothing was going to stop me. It only had 80 miles on it at that time. Wednesday morning I couldn't get a glove on over the bandages, so I took off to meet Jim with one glove. We did the introduction and coffee bit and took off on the ride around the Salton Sea. We stopped in Brawley, CA for lunch and had some yummy fish tacos.
Jim at the Salton Sea with his Wee Strom
Jerry with the Sea in the back round and of course his red Wee Strom.
Fish Tacos. Best I have ever had.
I discovered during the ride that it was painful pulling in the clutch and the wind blowing over the hand at speed hurt like hell. I spent most of the 200 plus ride with only my right hand on the bars, keeping the left hand sheltered from the wind. By the time I arrived home I was exhausted from the pain and the one hand riding.
A few days later I realized that the hand was infected. I have Kaiser Insurance so I went to their Palm Desert Clinic. They were shocked that with such a large open wound the ER hadn't prescribed a strong antibiotic. They cleaned the wound applied new bandages and told me to come back in couple of days for a bandage change and doctor inspection. They also gave me a prescription for a powerful antibiotic. I was also told not to use the hand until the infection was gone.
It has been three weeks since the incident and I went in yesterday for my last bandage change. I will be taking care of the hand on my own from now on. I did take a solo trip last Wednesday after the painful ordeal of getting a glove over the much thinner bandages. I took a little 220 mile trip around the Joshua Tree National Park
Jim and I hit off and had planned on weekly rides, but were unable to ride together again because of my injury. He left for Beaverton the 19th to spend the holidays with his family and will not be back until January. By the way, I sold that evil golf cart.
I purchased a 2014 650 V-Strom while in Oregon this summer. I plan to keep it in California for my winter riding.
The bike arrived a few days behind us in a long trailer loaded with bikes sitting side by side. Next to mine was and identical bike, same year, same color. Tony the driver, who I had met in Salem when I delivered the bike for shipping, made a point of showing this to me. He told me that he would tell the other owner and thought that maybe the two of us would like to go on some rides together.
After Tony made the delivery to the other owner he called with his phone number. I called and found that he is from Beaverton, OR and lives in LaQuinta about five miles from my home in Bermuda Dunes. We decided to meet for coffee on Wednesday and then take a ride around the Salton Sea.
On the day beforeI decided to prepare our golf cart for selling. Won't be needing it anymore after quitting the CC in the spring. While vacuuming the carpets I decide to vacuum under the seat. I raised it up began vacuuming when suddenly the heavy seat with its metal leading edge came down on my arm and hand tearing off most of the skin on the back of my hand. I rushed into the house with a trail of blood behind me and asked my wife to drive me to the ER in Indio. She wrapped a towel around my hand and we took off for the ER. They took me right in and they pulled the skin back in place and applied small band aids to hold it there. They then bandaged the hand up and made me wait until they thought the bleeding had stopped. Then I was released to go home.
Picture of Bandages Hand
for those of you with stronger stomachs here is a picture without the bandages a week or so later.
https://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee190/maness4golf/DSCN0332.jpg
I was really looking forward to meeting Jim and putting some miles on the new bike and nothing was going to stop me. It only had 80 miles on it at that time. Wednesday morning I couldn't get a glove on over the bandages, so I took off to meet Jim with one glove. We did the introduction and coffee bit and took off on the ride around the Salton Sea. We stopped in Brawley, CA for lunch and had some yummy fish tacos.
Jim at the Salton Sea with his Wee Strom
Jerry with the Sea in the back round and of course his red Wee Strom.
Fish Tacos. Best I have ever had.
I discovered during the ride that it was painful pulling in the clutch and the wind blowing over the hand at speed hurt like hell. I spent most of the 200 plus ride with only my right hand on the bars, keeping the left hand sheltered from the wind. By the time I arrived home I was exhausted from the pain and the one hand riding.
A few days later I realized that the hand was infected. I have Kaiser Insurance so I went to their Palm Desert Clinic. They were shocked that with such a large open wound the ER hadn't prescribed a strong antibiotic. They cleaned the wound applied new bandages and told me to come back in couple of days for a bandage change and doctor inspection. They also gave me a prescription for a powerful antibiotic. I was also told not to use the hand until the infection was gone.
It has been three weeks since the incident and I went in yesterday for my last bandage change. I will be taking care of the hand on my own from now on. I did take a solo trip last Wednesday after the painful ordeal of getting a glove over the much thinner bandages. I took a little 220 mile trip around the Joshua Tree National Park
Jim and I hit off and had planned on weekly rides, but were unable to ride together again because of my injury. He left for Beaverton the 19th to spend the holidays with his family and will not be back until January. By the way, I sold that evil golf cart.
