- Joined
- Dec 12, 2004
- Messages
- 1,282
- Age
- 76
- Location
- Weatherford, TX
- Bike
- '16 Versys 650LT
- STOC #
- 1134
Wish me luck.
Just mothballed the ST yesterday by putting the bike up on a Park-N-Move, filled the tank completely up with Stabil'd gas, did an oil & filter change, covered it up with my EZ Tour Wanderer, and hooked the Battery Tender Jr. up. There it will sit for the next 7 or 8 months.
Why?... Because tomorrow I go back under the knife for a 3rd attempt at repairing my left shoulder, rotator cuff. Doc's not sure if it can even be re-repaired at this point. I'll know when I wake up in the recovery room. If it doesn't work, the next step is something called a "reverse shoulder replacement".
Since my first RC operation in 2009, I've held out hope that I would be able to get back to doing long distance touring but medical problems, torn rotator cuffs being just one, have kept getting in the way of that ambition. Darn LD riding is addicting and it still has its hooks in me even after 5 years of not doing it.
Depending on how things go within the next 8 or 9 months, there's at least a 50/50 chance I may sell the ST1300 next year. I went through this once already a couple of years ago when I sold my ST1100 after my first shoulder re-repair. In the end I just couldn't stay off of two wheels because the pull of the open road was just too strong, so I bought the ST1300 in the apparently vain attempt to get back to my much loved hobby. Unfortunately, I was never able to get my body to cooperate long enough to allow me the joy of doing trans-continental touring again.
Time will tell.
Just mothballed the ST yesterday by putting the bike up on a Park-N-Move, filled the tank completely up with Stabil'd gas, did an oil & filter change, covered it up with my EZ Tour Wanderer, and hooked the Battery Tender Jr. up. There it will sit for the next 7 or 8 months.
Why?... Because tomorrow I go back under the knife for a 3rd attempt at repairing my left shoulder, rotator cuff. Doc's not sure if it can even be re-repaired at this point. I'll know when I wake up in the recovery room. If it doesn't work, the next step is something called a "reverse shoulder replacement".
Since my first RC operation in 2009, I've held out hope that I would be able to get back to doing long distance touring but medical problems, torn rotator cuffs being just one, have kept getting in the way of that ambition. Darn LD riding is addicting and it still has its hooks in me even after 5 years of not doing it.
Depending on how things go within the next 8 or 9 months, there's at least a 50/50 chance I may sell the ST1300 next year. I went through this once already a couple of years ago when I sold my ST1100 after my first shoulder re-repair. In the end I just couldn't stay off of two wheels because the pull of the open road was just too strong, so I bought the ST1300 in the apparently vain attempt to get back to my much loved hobby. Unfortunately, I was never able to get my body to cooperate long enough to allow me the joy of doing trans-continental touring again.
Time will tell.
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