First name is James
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Thanks once again for your help Dave, I got some from him. tell him he does some great work I can't wait to see them.

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First name is James
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Do anyone have a good front brack caliber. Either Honda or HD I would like a HD but at this point I am down to a few items and getting my brakes are my big road block. I have some old 1980 CB750 calibers but that are from a bike that has been left outside for 8 years and they are too far gone to rebuild. Because I have not working I am looking for someone with a big heart and will give me a good deal. I run HD rotor on the left side, I am not sure if that makes a difference. I am pushing my build so I can get the mockup done and ride it before I go into have some vertabra fused in my back, my friends are pushing to get it done for me.

Email me or PM me and lets see if I can work out a deal with someone.

Still have offers for Web work in trade for motor cycle parts so if you need updates or new Web sites contact me and see if we can work out a deal.

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First name is James
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Well I am going in on the 21st to haev back surgery looks like it is finally time to have them put the rods and shit in my back. I was looking to have the mock up done before I went in but since the largest bike show in the NW is on the 20th I have been helping out a good friend get his CB750 ready. So he is going to be working on my bike some while I am out. Here is the last picture I will be of the bike and hey I am on this one. I have been playing with different risers and bars I think I will end up making my own because nothing is getting it for me.

Here is the second to the last day of freedom LOL I have to spend the next week in the hospital god I hate hospital and I hate them even worse when it is my ass in there. but I get some kick ass drugs and I hope a good looking nurse for once. Well I can only hope. I hope every has a good summer of riding and building since it won't be till next summer before I will be riding my chopper.

If shit goes bad thanks everyone for answering my questions and being there to help me solve problem and I will be back to B.S. as soon as I can sit up at my computer

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Best of luck with you impending surgery. The down time will give you some time for ideas! ? The added pain killers may result in some wild ideas.......

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First name is James
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Yeah, since I have been on pain killers for over 2 years they say they will start by tripling them when I go home, but I am not fond of getting some dead fucks bones in my back and the screws and rods. My doctor said that if I was not better by next years Sturgis he would go with me to make sure I am not in pain but in the same breath he said they get the donor bone from motorcycle riders then he laugh as I told him to fuck off LOL. I have a cool doctor but I told him that this is the second one and he was going to need a doctor if this one doesn't work LOL.

Thanks Puzzled I hope it goes well I like my doctor and don't want to see him walk with a limp LOL. I just helped my good friend get his ride ready for todays Bike show so when I am able I am going to go out in my show and he will do what I want to help get my bike finished.

I will I hope be home and able to get online by the end of the week. I hope everyone's week will be better than mine hell hope it is better than the last 2 weeks, I forgot I got really drunk and found myself on the wrong end of the cops tazer or how ever you spell that. I still have the damn snake bite looking sticks in my shoulder fucker hit me with it 3 times. Some people just don't know how to have fun LOLOLOL.

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That bikes looking good man hope ur surgerey goes well

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Good luck! Hospitals SUCK!

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First name is James
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Hey just got home from the hospital had to spend 6 days in there I had some major issues in the surgery that led them to put in ICU and put the tube down my throat because I was only taking 5 breathes a min. and at one point in the middle of the night my heart and breathing stopped. So they told me since I have been on percs. for over 2 1/2 years they had to give me more meds during the surgery and that was on the line of too much, guess they call it too much when you stop breathing and heart pumping.

Anyone here ever had anything like this happen or any other surgery storys? Well They told me I was on a 6 month vacation in my bed. I buddy will be putting a chair in my shop and help put my bike together.

I was looking to have all the mock up done but just couldn't get it done only a few thing and then the paint. I will keep taking pictures and when I am able to situp I at the computer more I am going to be putting the build log up on a WEb site

Well I hope all is well will try to keep you guys updated and I will see if I have the last image uploaded.

Later,
James

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First name is Robert Hilman
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Cut my ear in two, they had to wait till I sobered up enough so they could sedate me and have a plastic surgen put 43 stitchs in, to put my ear back together. That was a car accident. Then there is the motor cycle accident that kept me off a bike till now. They told me I was looseing part of my leg, they said it might be from the knee down. Turned out to be just a quater of my calf, but they said I would never walk again. I'm ordering my bike Saturday so I guess they were wrong! That was 28 years ago.
But my foot still does not work, just kind of hangs there.

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I can feel for you James ..

I dropped a dodge 340 engine with 727 trans on my left leg back in '83 shattered it in a million pieces , ended up being 3/4 of an inch shorter after they decided that I could KEEP my leg even thu there is all kinds of nerve damageand my ankle and toes dont move ,frozen from being in a cast for 2 years and as a resolt it threw my hips off kilter and that coused my lower back to get screwed up , so now I'v got several bad disk ,degenertive bone desease aswell as a couple herrneated disk. no cushion between the disk , you can hear them grinding
I'v been on pain killers for the last 5 years and most likely will be for life . so basicialy I'm a frigg'n mess lol ohhh and to top it all off .... I had a heart attack in 2001 , blew a couple holes in two of the arterys that they plugged with stents 3 of them ( they'r little pipes ) lol

I wish you a speedy recovery , I'm very interasted in how you make out , the docs have suggested surgery but I'm just not ready for it

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First name is Tim
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Yes James.
When they have a person that has been on lots of meds for a while, they sometimes have complications with the anisesia, and it can get dicey.
My Dad had a procedure done, and they almost didn't get him back out of it. He was in his 60's when that happened.
A few years later he had to have his knee replaced, and they woulden't put him all the way under. They gave him a spinal tap, and did it while he was semi awake.
His knee felt so good after that, he wanted to have his other knee done. They wouldent do the second one, (he was too old by then).
My little sister had tha same procedure that you had done.
Like you, she just had it done about a week ago or so.
She is still in the tough pain part rite now. It takes a couple of weeks to get over the hump, and then you start to feel a little better.
She had the bone taken from her hip for her procedure.
I have heard people say that years after a procedure like that, the part that pains you is where they took the bone for the graft.
Be glad you got doner bone for that reason.

I am waiting for the disk replacements. My back is too messed up for the typical fusion procedures. The disk'a above and below my "Bad" one are bad themselves, and cant take the load of a spine fusion.
The new disk procedures are comming soon I'm told, so I have to wait.
Broke both my legs more than once though.
Had one of my femurs screwed together with 17 screws and two radiator type hose clamps when I was 25. Two yeas later I had to have all the hardware removed, and a year after that, it broke through a old screw hole. I had to have a rod inserted down the center of my femur after that. Been good ever since, no complaints.
Left leg was just a common tibia break, pice of cake, and I had a Fibula fracture once too. They don't do shit for them. They tell you you can live without one, and give you some pain meds.

There, don't you feel better now!!
Youll pull throgh just fine. Just take it easy for a while, and follow the doc's orders so you don't mess up his work.
Be patient.

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First name is James
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Thanks everyone, Wolfden I didn't get into the part that just before my last back surgery I work at a Sawmill and someone moved a full load of 2x6's and I was trapped between the load of wood and the huge metal rollers. That was on my last day of work before I was sceduled to have surgery. Broke it all up but the worse part is I have massive nerve damage that just burns like it is on fire. Nothing that they can do for it so like Wolfden I will be on some form of pain killers all my life they say.

Well thanks everyone, hope you all get better, time for me to get back to bed the pain is coming back.

And the rest of you that have bikes get out there and ride them like you stoled them, I know today it is 80 degrees here I would love to be out riding.

Thanks,
James

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James, I just found this forum today, and just read through this thread. Sorry to hear about your back, and surgery, but your build is looking great!!

I had a surgery to reconstruct my face after I hit a horse last October... Yes, I said horse.. Luckily for me, as I was leathering up to ride to work that morning, my 15 yr old son came and asked me to take him to school... but not on the bike cause it was cold. I hit a 1500lb horse in a dodge caravan doing about 55-60 mph. If that had happened on my bike, I don't think I'd be here. I am now the proud owner of $17k worth of titanium in my face .. Too bad I don't have 1/2 that to put into a build.
I too was in ICU cause my heart was only beating 30-33 beats/minutes, and I guess thats too damn slow. All said and done I'm a lucky SOB. You would never even know by looking at me that I got all F'd up. The worst part was having my jaw wired shut. I lost 26 lbs in the 5 days after the accident. I had to feed my self liquids through a long tube that I could run around one side of my jaw and use a syringe to squirt nasty shit in it. Ahh good times.. I also had nerve damage, but it is still improving. For a while, if I tried to drink from a cup or bottle (w/o a straw) shit would run out the side of my mouth and I couldn't feel it. Kind of like when you leave the dentist. Doc said some of the feeling will never come back in my face, and my jaw just aches. Yawning is very, very uncomfortable... ok now I'm whining..

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First name is James
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Yeah when I was awake and they took me to a normal room I spend 2 days throwing up. I stopped eatrting there food and I stopped throwing up so everytime they would bring me food I would tell them to take it out I was not eatting there shit anymore.

I just had my first post-op Dr. appointment last night and he said that it was way more screwed up than the MRI showed and they had to go 5 veribra and not just the 3 that they thought. It is wierd being able to feel that in my back, but it took the pain away that was shooting down my leg so I am very happy about that just hope everything takes or they will be back in their again in 8 to 12 months to redo it and I don't want that.

Thanks,

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