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30 stitches, 4 broken teeth and a bent Kerin frame later...

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Old 03-02-06 | 02:25 AM
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lumenredundas is obviously too cool.

feel better, sorry to hear about yer frame, face too.
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Old 03-02-06 | 02:54 AM
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i have fake front teeth and i hate them. they break so much.
tell me more about your fake teeth. I love mine.
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Old 03-02-06 | 02:57 AM
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yeah, lumen, threads like this are for sharin' the love, not fightin'. (god, that looked like something brunop would write )

anyway, sucks. barely got out on your bike and bam...not good. heal up well, good luck getting the bike healed...they don't do that on their own...
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Old 03-02-06 | 03:42 AM
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tell me more about your fake teeth. I love mine.
i have vanners(sp), i broke half the tooth off both front and they shaved them down and put the porsaleen (sp). they chip or break at least once a year. its annoying because i miss a front tooth for a couple days.

i have the option of getting periment caps but i don't know?
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Old 03-02-06 | 03:53 AM
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Old 03-02-06 | 04:10 AM
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Go after her insurance for a new frame, get a kalavinka...
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Old 03-02-06 | 04:28 AM
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hey lumen you are that nerd that posted that lame tough guy story on every single myspace fixed message board aboout beating some guy up that yelled at you in the street. the kid who said "im not a messenger but i ride like one" yeah heres the story...

XtirestormX

i just knocked some dude out and it was awesome.

heres the story. rolling west on brady towards holton. im moving faster than traffic like normal on brady. at about Casablanca's a honda svr decides to pull a Uturn infront of me with out looking over her shoulder. since the only way to go was infront of her i did and smacked her hood which made her stop(luckily). i ride to the light and stop a second later i hear someone yelling "you're ****ing crazy you almost got your self killed you dumbass!" i replied that she should have looked where she was going and it wouldnt have happened. then he called me a ****ed up doped head who needs to lay off the drugs, for some reason that got me up set so i roll towards him to correct him self and to calm the **** down. he says somthing about getting out of the car and proceeds to, which is immediately met with my foot to kick his door back in. this angers him more. as i am falling off my bike i leap off and see him getting out again. this time the contact was not my foot his door, it was his face and my fist. all i saw after that was him grasp his nose and some red. got on my bike and rode away.

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Old 03-02-06 | 04:30 AM
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its weird i lived in boston for a year and a half and never got hit once. but when i lived prior and when i returned to tampa i got hit all the time.
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Old 03-02-06 | 05:03 AM
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it sucks to be in pain, it sucks to lose your bike, i'm glad to hear you're alive, and now you get to put a new bike together, think of the fun, since you're probably not supposed to ride while you heal you can fill your days shopping for parts, then when insurance comes through with a big fat check(and it will be big and fat) you'll be set
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Old 03-02-06 | 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by moz138
hey lumen you are that nerd that posted that lame tough guy story on every single myspace fixed message board aboout beating some guy up that yelled at you in the street. the kid who said "im not a messenger but i ride like one" yeah heres the story...

XtirestormX

i just knocked some dude out and it was awesome.

heres the story. rolling west on brady towards holton. im moving faster than traffic like normal on brady. at about Casablanca's a honda svr decides to pull a Uturn infront of me with out looking over her shoulder. since the only way to go was infront of her i did and smacked her hood which made her stop(luckily). i ride to the light and stop a second later i hear someone yelling "you're ****ing crazy you almost got your self killed you dumbass!" i replied that she should have looked where she was going and it wouldnt have happened. then he called me a ****ed up doped head who needs to lay off the drugs, for some reason that got me up set so i roll towards him to correct him self and to calm the **** down. he says somthing about getting out of the car and proceeds to, which is immediately met with my foot to kick his door back in. this angers him more. as i am falling off my bike i leap off and see him getting out again. this time the contact was not my foot his door, it was his face and my fist. all i saw after that was him grasp his nose and some red. got on my bike and rode away.

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Interesting. The poster of that story refers to the driver as "her" until the part where the poster kicks his door and hits his face; suddenly it's a man. A boy named Sue, perhaps?

OP. Heal fast... Was this at a stoplight?
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Old 03-02-06 | 06:49 AM
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rvabiker, that really sucks. Hope you heal quickly.
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Old 03-02-06 | 07:09 AM
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was this in the fan? people can't drive worth a **** in the fan.
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Old 03-02-06 | 07:18 AM
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People can't drive worth @#$$% anywheres in this town, and haven't gotten any better in the 25 years or so I've been here... jaysus, that's bad, rva, heal up all good-like...get back on the ride soon...
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Old 03-02-06 | 08:38 AM
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you guys sound like a bunch of hockey players talkin about missing teeth. and a nice bike, keirin or not, should be ridden not babied.
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Old 03-02-06 | 08:45 AM
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Man that sucks.. I hate when people reck my stuff. And when one of those things is my body, that is even worse. So I am sorry.
I have been hit twice. Hit and runs at that. Neither time was I hurt but still knocked me off my bike at like 25 MPH or so. tocoed my rim once. I always stay on non' busy streets and stuff, but I am sure that isn't going to help me. lol.
At anyrate I am sorry to hear that. I hope you have a speedie' recoverie.
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Old 03-02-06 | 09:30 AM
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Wow, sorry to hear this. Hope you have a quick recovery and hope you're able to take advantage of insurance.

Good luck
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Old 03-02-06 | 09:47 AM
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Make sure to get some good quotes. We give new replacement value when we do crash quotes. Be sure to include everything, clothes, shoes, etc.

It does look like you have the dismount down, except you should chose something besides the face for the landing. Hope you heal up quick and either have no scars ar lots of scars depending on your taste.
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Old 03-02-06 | 09:48 AM
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Old 03-02-06 | 09:48 AM
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Old 03-02-06 | 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by lumenredundas
idiocy i think not. most people hold those frames up on a pedistol and baby the hell out of them(more than most frames, hence why they sell like hot cakes and go for insane amounts of money) and complaining about ruining said frame is just stupid, because if you held that bike in such high regard why would you put it in a potentially more dangerous situation.

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bikes are for riding, not putting on a pedestal. furthermore, telling someone who was just seriously injured that they lose at life because they are bummed about their bike is ****ing ****ty. this is a community of cyclists and for the most part everyone here is supportive and understanding. you seemed a like a narrow minded jerk in the thread about drinking, and despite people arguing otherwise you just seem to keep living up to that role. i hope one day you realize that life isn't some tough guy competition where you have to constantly **** on other people and that it doesn't take you getting seriously ****ed up for you to realize this.
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Old 03-02-06 | 09:52 AM
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oh, and I have three implants... they are all on the side of my mouth though. i got them when i had my wisdom teeth taken out so i luckily was unconscious. they are good stuff. my friend steve took a fall on his bike about a year ago and had an implant put in the front of his mouth which ws rejected by his body and the bone wouldn't accept the post so he had to have it removed recently.

i have implants because i never grew adult teeth in three places. two of those places still had baby teeth which the doc thought would be easy to pull, but it turned out that they had fused to my jawbone. to get them out he had to clamp down and rock them back and forth until the bone connecting them began to crack and break. hearing that noise in my skull almost made the vomit
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Old 03-02-06 | 09:57 AM
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ian mckaye and jonathon richman have created a little monster...
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Old 03-02-06 | 09:57 AM
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heal up RVA.
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Old 03-02-06 | 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by rodny71
and a nice bike, keirin or not, should be ridden not babied.
CORRECT!
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Old 03-02-06 | 10:25 AM
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best wishes for a speedy recovery. its all about proper pain maintenance now...be good to yourself, up the meds!
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