Hanging up my helmet , gear for sale

[DandyDoug]

I have decided to hang up my helmet and move on to another hobby , so I have some nice gear for sale.

Original Hein Gerike Dakar jacket , black , 3/4 length , size 40 comes with original liner in perfect condition, added a Tom the Tailor Zipper strip to allow a little more room as I aged.
The sleeves have the original snap cuffs removed and then trimmed with black leather by a professional tailor, ( they were a bit too long for me)
All zippers and snaps work perfectly, no rips, tears or other abrasions.
Has one classic Daytona 50th anniversary patch on left shoulder ( easily removed)
I have owned this jacket for 35 years and it looks as good today as when I bought it, I paid somewhere north of $400.00 back then.

Jacket is perfect candidate for a Rocker to be stylin :ride:

$100.00 shipped in CONUS.

 

[strokerlmt]

DD.....sorry to hear you are "moving on" from riding. Good luck.....
LMT

 

[DandyDoug]

Hmm, thought there might be some interest for this bunch oke:

 

[koifarm]

try a few pictures please....

 

[beemerrich]

Doug,

I know you had the handle 'amalifer' at one time/on one of the forums and expected you along for the ride for the duration. Sorry to hear that you had to make that hard choice and hang up your spurs. Don't be a stranger and make sure to show up at Maggie Valley - be it on 2 wheels or on 4.

I'm a little large for a 40 jacket, so - despite my interest in this sort of thing - I'm not in the buyer pool on this one.

Cheers,

--Rich

 

[DandyDoug]

try a few pictures please....

I can take a few pictures and manage to get them on my computer
( SOMETIMES ) , but i have no luck getting pictures to post on forums .
It' just beyond my skill level on this bleedin machine :mad2:

If someone is serious about buying i can e mail them pictures to their e mail address.

 

[DandyDoug]

Doug,

I know you had the handle 'amalifer' at one time/on one of the forums and expected you along for the ride for the duration. Sorry to hear that you had to make that hard choice and hang up your spurs. Don't be a stranger and make sure to show up at Maggie Valley - be it on 2 wheels or on 4.

I'm a little large for a 40 jacket, so - despite my interest in this sort of thing - I'm not in the buyer pool on this one.

Cheers,

--Rich

Thanks Rich,
It's been a tough decision but my back has gotten so bad It is just too painful to keep riding. I have spent a ton ( literally) of money this year going through spinal decompression therapy. It works as long as i don't lift,bend,stretch, or twist my back. But I still live with severe pain most of the time.
I have finally agreed to see a surgeon specialist next month , but at my age ( 69) I doubt seriously I will let him cut on me. Had an MRI done, the reports are usually one paragraph, mine is two freeking pages . Looked at the CD with my regular doctor and he said we have some major problems.
Heck , even i could see it was a mess.

As for M/V , we will see. I am scheduled to be back in Germany that week next spring for my Grandaughters first communion , not sure i can handle sitting on an airplane for 9 hours anymore though.
Doug

 

[T-boy]

Best of luck to you, Doug. Must of been a tough decision. I'm wrestling with the same thoughts regarding my Bonnie.

 

[drlapo]

i already have one

 

[DandyDoug]

Best of luck to you, Doug. Must of been a tough decision. I'm wrestling with the same thoughts regarding my Bonnie.

Started riding at age 12 on a Whizzer Sportsman , had a few breaks in time without motorcycles , but have at least 40 good years of riding , racing, touring and made some great friends.

I have been wrestling with this decision over the last three bikes, tried it a couple of years ago but it only lasted a short time. This time i am pretty sure I am done, unless something happens that fixes my back problem. :nono:

I am keeping just enough gear that if things change i can get on a ride a little.There is an outfit in the area that holds vintage tours so I have that as an option also.:sidecar:

 

[koifarm]

Sorry to hear about your physical problems Doug, and can appreciate what you're going through since I have much the same problem...mine is spinal stenosis and makes riding more than an hour painful.
I have added a sidecar to the Bonneville, and after several tries found a bar arrangement that allowed me relatively pain free driving for several hours, prior to that, half an hour was the best I could do so I've found a good compromise that allows me to continue riding.....normally i'll take three ibuprofen just at the beginning of the ride and that seems to help greatly.
I relate this to you in the sense that you perhaps just need to consider different postures, bikes, bar arrangements or anything else you can modify to get back on two wheels. I know it must be hard on you, or anyone who has ridden that long and felt like they could not go on riding.
Good luck man, see if you can find a way to keep on riding, your soul needs it.

 

[DandyDoug]

Thanks, yes my soul needs it but reality is what it is.
I can barely sit , drive or ride in a car without a lot of pain any more.

Today I needed to do some grout work in my bathroom, got on the floor and could not get up again :d
Had to call upon a neighbor to get me up. :crazy:

I am ever the optomist and hold on to the idea that it will all work out .

My dream is to get well enough to build another Cafe' bike and do some track days .

 

[koifarm]

Sounds pretty serious Doug,more than I thought....no doubt you have tried to work it out but from what you wrote, it sounds dicey....
There is nothing more stressful to try your best to continue to function when your body tells you it ain't gonna happen with out pain....
as you do, I have to watch carefully how I move and especially how I pick things up on the ground and carry weight......last week I moved a trapped coon in a havahart trap and wrecked my back for the next two days with some residual pain even now.....I guess the major problem is that my mind writes checks my body can't pay.....
I still continue to walk about a mile or two every day, my orthopod is working with me on balance and so far so good but it just sucks not to be whole and able to do what you want....it's a pain in the ass growing old.....
Take care, I hope the best for you man, I know where you're coming from......
And, I have the same problem getting up from the ground....consequently I strap on a cell phone whenever I get up in the morning and keep it there till I go to bed.....the last time I fell, I broke my pelvis in two places, small cracks but I ended up taking three to four months to get back in shape..and had to call an ambulance to get me up off the ground.....
Bill

 

[beemerrich]

It's been a tough decision but my back has gotten so bad It is just too painful to keep riding....

I feel for you and have an understanding of the level of pain you're feeling. My wife is in a similar situation to yours...albeit, this sort of injury varies so widely from person to person its hard to compare. In her case, a lifetime of performing body work/forward projection has lead to cervical spine degeneration/chronic nerve pain. She continues to teach yoga - how, I have no idea since she has lost much of the sensation in her limbs and by all medical indications she should be wheeling herself around. She does inversion yoga to create space in her spine...that is probably what allows her to keep moving. Because I can, I tell all visitors to the house that her OmGym inversion yoga device is a sex swing.

I am keeping just enough gear that if things change i can get on a ride a little....

Good move. I hope that includes keeping a favorite bike of british (or other?) origin?? I'm resolved that I will keep my thruxton - or possibly my beemer - around despite what life brings to me. Even if it meant only being able to look at it for years...the possibility that I would at some point be able to ride again would warrant the effort to keep her around.

Keep the faith and stop in a MV if you aren't otherwise able to fly out to the fatherland during that period...

Cheers,

--Rich

 

[DandyDoug]

I sold off the last of my bikes a couple weeks ago. It was just too much to handle walking in to the garage every day seeing them sitting there.

If I do get back in the saddle you can be sure it will either be on another Bonneville or an old Airhead BMW.

All the new stuff leaves me cold, too much technology, too much body work, and way to much weight. Don't even get me started on the bug eyed headlamp look :mad2::rocket::lame::loser:

 

[drlapo]

while I have not yet given up on the bikes, even after my recent heart surgery, I did buy a Mazda MX5 for scootin around
the dog likes it
you outta try one

 

[fender]

while I have not yet given up on the bikes, even after my recent heart surgery, I did buy a Mazda MX5 for scootin around
the dog likes it
you outta try one

I did the same thing since my knee has been crap for the past three years. Haven't given up on the bike but my rides are definitely shorter. Can't handle the bent in the same position for longer than 20 mins. But it ever so slowly gets better. The MX5 is an absolute blast to drive. Unless it's raining or below 50 degrees the top is down.

 

[DandyDoug]

I look at the MX5 and like what i see, but the new ones are crazy expensive
( IMHO ) and the used ones are either so highly modified or have such high mileage they make me nervous.

Still trying to understand the pricing on the used ones, not interested in paying for someones idea of a daily driver made in to a track car . I lurk on one of their forums and a lot of cars come up for sale, but they are 15 to 20 years old or have 150k miles but the sellers seem to find buyers at what I consider stupid money.

So I keep looking , maybe I'll find one at a reasonable price that has not been messed with too much.

Then I have to deal with SWMBO , man she hates Jap cars.
As far as she is concerned if it is not a Ford, GM , or Chrysler product it cannot live in our house.:rtfr: :flag:

 

[fender]

I look at the MX5 and like what i see, but the new ones are crazy expensive
( IMHO ) and the used ones are either so highly modified or have such high mileage they make me nervous.

Still trying to understand the pricing on the used ones, not interested in paying for someones idea of a daily driver made in to a track car . I lurk on one of their forums and a lot of cars come up for sale, but they are 15 to 20 years old or have 150k miles but the sellers seem to find buyers at what I consider stupid money.

So I keep looking , maybe I'll find one at a reasonable price that has not been messed with too much.

Then I have to deal with SWMBO , man she hates Jap cars.
As far as she is concerned if it is not a Ford, GM , or Chrysler product it cannot live in our house.:rtfr: :flag:

Put a Ford badge on it. Ford and Mazda collaborated for years on cars and shared chassis and drive trains. Keep looking you find one the NB series are good ones to look into. The NC ones even used are pricey.

 

[beemerrich]

...Then I have to deal with SWMBO , man she hates Jap cars.
As far as she is concerned if it is not a Ford, GM , or Chrysler product it cannot live in our house.

As the son of a GM truck & coach employee and with a brother who has worked at Chrysler since '84, I was always a 'big 3' guy...that was until that brand loyalty had me owning an '03 PT Cruiser that, despite religious oil changes every 3K miles, burned oil so bad by 35K miles that it was making less than 1000 miles per quart. Electrical and suspension issues had also manifested themselves by then. Selling it off was a freeing moment for me since it opened up a whole world of autos that I had, up to that point, ignored or simply hadn't considered.

I replaced it with a Mazda 6 that has been fantastic...and, unlike the PT, was made (assembled at least) right here in Flat Rock, Michigan. Guys cut from the same cloth as my dad screwed that one together and it has been nearly faultless over the past 100K miles.

Cheers,

--Rich