There is a story in that broken leg George. Dying of curiosity.
Yes and no on my trip to Sydney. I am having a hard time convincing
Leon I know what I am talking about :-)
Paul Lamar
George Lendich wrote:
Well Paul, it's like this !
I belong to the Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club Australia.Members from
all over the Country accepted an invitation for a ride around Tasmania from
the Tassie Chapter (it's an Annual event). It was a hard ride, through a lot
of mountains and very testing conditions, rain, fog, slippery roads etc and
Mate I was up the front with the best of them !! Although a few came unstuck
I never even had a hint of a problem - we rode hard and played hard at
night.
Well I never had a problem until the return trip home, I was riding
with a mate (Vice president) who it would seem wanted to test out
his new bike (Harley) and I had a job and a half keeping up with him.
His has the oversized pots (1550) and I'm on my 92 Sportster 1200.
We (he ) deceided to have a look at out exotic sking resort
(border of Victoria and New South wales). Well we had been on the
bikes for seven hours and riding quite hard.
We stopped and had a look at Thredbo Resort and kept going. The
road after that was very winding and Mountainous (Man from Snowy
River Country - have you seen the movie).
Well I'm taking in the scenery and me mate gets away from me -
but that's OK I know I can catch him up on the corners, I'm thinking,
so I give some stick. Soon after that I completely miscaculated
a blind corner and when I could see around the corner, it was too late
and I'm going way too quick. And yeh ! I was feeling like the 'Man
from Snowy River' all right as I left the road, which was on the side of a
mountain
- it wasn't long before I came too with a broken leg and all by my lonesome
on the
side of the Mountain. My Mate didn't see me come off because he was doing
his best to stay on the road himself.
I was there by myself for about half and hour and I thought shit this is it
!! I'm
gunna die here all alone on the highest peak in Australia, and it's bloody
cold !!
I didn't know how bad the break was and I didn't want to move for fear of
causing
further damage. Anyhow some people came along and I waved to them and they
saw me it took 45min for an Ambulance to get there another 45min to get to a
chopper and another 45 min to get to Hospital. They couldn't operate for a
week
because the leg was by then, too swollen. I broke both bones in the lower
right leg
as well a a chunk off my ankle. A rather large plate and 20 screws later
(2 operations a week apart).
I'm known as a risk taker - but I swear I will never do that again;
Oh the pain of it all !! at 53 I'm getting a bit old for all this pain, the
trouble is
I'm not too old for the sense of adventure, probably whay I'm a pilot and
building planes.
I guess when you have the urges to do all these things, the only rest you
get
is when your dead, and hopefully that's a long way off !!
However I might need to slow down a bit.
George (down under)
Sounds like we are lucky you are still with us.
Paul Lamar
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