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Offline BobbyR

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Re: Would you cross this bridge on your SOHC?
« Reply #50 on: December 23, 2009, 06:37:10 PM »
I had that discussion with an oncologist two weeks ago. He said "you would trade quality of life for longevity", I said Yeah.

I can imagine how that discussion might have went.  All the best, Bob.
Not that gruesome really, just a bit confusing.
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Re: Would you cross this bridge on your SOHC?
« Reply #51 on: December 23, 2009, 06:50:00 PM »
Not that gruesome really, just a bit confusing.

I broke my right arm a few years back while riding (actually I was crashing) an RM250.  The doc took it upon himself to corner my wife and insist she make me stop riding.  That I was too old to be doing that stuff.  It kind of pissed me off when my wife told me about it, but I let it go.  Later, I was telling a friend about it.  Turned out my friend had gone to the same doctor when he had bunged up his ankle playing basketball.  The doc went to his wife and did the same thing, saying he was too old to be playing basketball.  Pretty hilarious.
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Re: Would you cross this bridge on your SOHC?
« Reply #52 on: December 23, 2009, 07:23:57 PM »
I would try.  ;D

Maybe I am prone to be wreckless though...
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Re: Would you cross this bridge on your SOHC?
« Reply #53 on: December 23, 2009, 07:56:57 PM »
I would try.  ;D

Maybe I am prone to be wreckless though...

Wreckless would be about ideal.  Reckless, on the other hand, might be a problem. ;)
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Re: Would you cross this bridge on your SOHC?
« Reply #54 on: December 23, 2009, 09:16:39 PM »
I would try.  ;D

Maybe I am prone to be wreckless though...

Wreckless would be about ideal...

Glad we agree then.  ;D
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Re: Would you cross this bridge on your SOHC?
« Reply #55 on: December 24, 2009, 06:52:24 AM »
I have thought about this a lot for some reason. I would cross that Bridge. I had one Bridge that for some reson I could not cross. One day I decided that was enough and I rode up and down that Highway 20 times crossing that bridge over and over. There was a Trooper in the middle, and on my last trip he waved me over. He said I wasn't doing anything wrong, but what was I doing? I told him just testing. I passed the test.
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Re: Would you cross this bridge on your SOHC?
« Reply #56 on: December 29, 2009, 04:31:48 AM »
Good man Bobby. We are faced with tests all the time, some harder than others.

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Re: Would you cross this bridge on your SOHC?
« Reply #57 on: December 30, 2009, 05:26:20 PM »

Well Ok since you have called me out. I may under certain circumstances:

1. If I were being chased by flesh eating Zombies.
2. If  I had to deliver a life saving Vacine to a remote village.
3. If Angelina Jolie and Meagan Fox (with normal thumbs) were standing on the other side and it was a slam dunk I could have them both at the same time.

Back in the day we knocked down bridges that looked like that by dropping sandbags on them. Never took more that two direct hits to bring them down.




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