Dockmaster
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- May 5, 2021
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Pretty much just had the worst weekend I’ve ever had in the dunes. Decided to squeeze in one last weekend for the season at Florence in Oregon. Weather showed sunny and mid-60’s for all weekend.
1. First ride wife hits a tree with whip and shears off the bolts on the bracket I just made and installed. OK, no biggie, easy fix, 10 mins back to camp to fix.
2. Second ride after fixing whip bracket and SxS throws a CEL light and goes into limp mode. Back to camp, can’t find anything obviously working. Can Am dealer an hour away says bring it in and we can at least read the code for you. Load it up, drive an hour , sorry you have a tuner, we can’t read the code. And we can’t find the plug even if we could read it. But, we start it up and seems to run fine with no CEL. They said it could have read a problem in the belt? Drove the hour back to camp, changed the belt and seemed fine after. OK, maybe got lucky and will run OK rest of weekend.
3. Third ride after the SxS and I blow my 2D trans in my Revo. Luckily the SxS continued to run fine and towed me back to camp.
4. Fog rolls in late on day one and stays for all of day two. 100% humidity so might as well have been raining. A short ride in the morning then we just hung out in camp.
5. And by far the WORST part of the weekend was morning of day 3. We decide to take a short ride before we have to load up. On our way back to camp, my wife decides to get a little frisky on her Sportsman. She takes a left turn too fast and too sharp. She gets thrown off and the quad barrel rolls a full 360 roll right over her. Happened 50 yards right in front of me. Was horrible to watch. I jump out of the SxS and sprint to her. Didn’t know this old, fat guy could still run. At first she’s laying on her back barely moving. Then she manages to roll over and get on all fours and breath as she had the wind knocked out of her. I get there and her face is bloody and she has a big chunk hanging off the end of her nose. Her helmet face shield is broke off. She isn’t sure what else is broken or wrong but maybe thinks nothing major. Load her into the SxS, back to camp and off to the hospital. Fortunately we are less than 10 mins to hospital. Full x-rays and scans. Nothing broken or serious - thank you lord!. Four stitches in her nose, four hours in the ER and back to camp. She has bruised ribs, right shin is bruised badly, lots of other scrapes and bruises and a nose that looks like she went 3 rounds with Mike Tyson. But we are thanking our lucky stars it wasn’t worse.
6. Loaded up, drove 3.5 hours home and happy to put an end to one effed up weekend. I don’t know what we did to deserve this but I sure hope we have paid our omage and are done with it.
I hope none of you guys ever have to watch something like that happen to your wife, kids or friends. Or anyone for that matter. Running over to my wife I fully expected to find the worst situation. So thankful it wasn’t worse. Now the search begins for a plastic surgeon to fix her nose.
1. First ride wife hits a tree with whip and shears off the bolts on the bracket I just made and installed. OK, no biggie, easy fix, 10 mins back to camp to fix.
2. Second ride after fixing whip bracket and SxS throws a CEL light and goes into limp mode. Back to camp, can’t find anything obviously working. Can Am dealer an hour away says bring it in and we can at least read the code for you. Load it up, drive an hour , sorry you have a tuner, we can’t read the code. And we can’t find the plug even if we could read it. But, we start it up and seems to run fine with no CEL. They said it could have read a problem in the belt? Drove the hour back to camp, changed the belt and seemed fine after. OK, maybe got lucky and will run OK rest of weekend.
3. Third ride after the SxS and I blow my 2D trans in my Revo. Luckily the SxS continued to run fine and towed me back to camp.
4. Fog rolls in late on day one and stays for all of day two. 100% humidity so might as well have been raining. A short ride in the morning then we just hung out in camp.
5. And by far the WORST part of the weekend was morning of day 3. We decide to take a short ride before we have to load up. On our way back to camp, my wife decides to get a little frisky on her Sportsman. She takes a left turn too fast and too sharp. She gets thrown off and the quad barrel rolls a full 360 roll right over her. Happened 50 yards right in front of me. Was horrible to watch. I jump out of the SxS and sprint to her. Didn’t know this old, fat guy could still run. At first she’s laying on her back barely moving. Then she manages to roll over and get on all fours and breath as she had the wind knocked out of her. I get there and her face is bloody and she has a big chunk hanging off the end of her nose. Her helmet face shield is broke off. She isn’t sure what else is broken or wrong but maybe thinks nothing major. Load her into the SxS, back to camp and off to the hospital. Fortunately we are less than 10 mins to hospital. Full x-rays and scans. Nothing broken or serious - thank you lord!. Four stitches in her nose, four hours in the ER and back to camp. She has bruised ribs, right shin is bruised badly, lots of other scrapes and bruises and a nose that looks like she went 3 rounds with Mike Tyson. But we are thanking our lucky stars it wasn’t worse.
6. Loaded up, drove 3.5 hours home and happy to put an end to one effed up weekend. I don’t know what we did to deserve this but I sure hope we have paid our omage and are done with it.
I hope none of you guys ever have to watch something like that happen to your wife, kids or friends. Or anyone for that matter. Running over to my wife I fully expected to find the worst situation. So thankful it wasn’t worse. Now the search begins for a plastic surgeon to fix her nose.
