Little River Canyon

[bigginbusa]

Well the weather held, so I got to ride up to Little river Canyon, Oh man, it was a long ride. This was the first long ride Ive done on the bike since my Bypass surgery back in March, my butt is sore, my arms are sunburned, but I had a good time.

 

[OldMan]

Lots of greenery! Looks like a nice area. How many miles round trip? and what do you mean by bypass surgery?

 

[GsxrBots]

Nice. How much did you lose? My dad had bypass, and everything that possibly could go wrong went wrong. He spend over 4 months in the hospital. I'm glad it worked out for you..

 

[TWT racer]

Great pics and take care of yourself Buddy. Glad you're doing well

 

[bigginbusa]

Well, from where I live in birmingham, it was about a 220 mile round trip. I went up highway 11 to fort payne alabama, and got to the canyon parkway from there.
What I mean by bypass surgery, is I was having chest pains back at the beginning of March, and after some argueing with insurance and doctors, I finally was put in the hospital to have the dye thing done, and thats when the doctor told me that I was Diabetic and had been for a long time, had cause the veins around my heart to be to small and cholestoral had started stopping them up, so the next day they were doing 6 bypasses on me, I would have never dreamed that at 44 years old id be having bypass surgery, but I should have known, my dad had bypass at 57 and hes diabetic, i should have gone to the doctor a long time ago, but I kept putting it off, I learned a hard lesson

 

[BusaBret]

Glad your doing well and had a good trip today.
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[Rook]

Looks like an awesome ride! Glad you're doing well.

 

[bigginbusa]

Thanks guys

 

[ky busa]

glad you are riding again!

 

[OldMan]

Wow, I asked because you didn't look old enough for to go through such a thing. I bet it's good to be riding now!

 

[bigginbusa]

some more pics

 

[BusaBret]

Have you ever rode the Cheaha Mountain Skyway? The wife and I want to ride that way in the next week or so.
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[sleepless_red]

Glad to hear that you're doing well. Nice pics....thanks for sharing.

 

[bigginbusa]

Yeah, Ive been up mount cheaha a couple of times, the last time I went up, I went down on my katana 600, i had a worn front tire and I felt it slip in one of the corners,so I stood the bike up from the lean and drifted off the road into the grass, i was trying to ease it back onto the pavement but thought i was about to end up in the ditch,so in a panic I hit the back brake,and it went down on its left side,then flipped to its right side and tossed me about 10 feet away, to me it all happened in a split second, but my buddy behind said it looked like it was in slow motion, i rode it home, bent right bar, broken front brake lever, a ding on the tank, and pulled groin....... but anyway, its a nice ride up there, nice scenery, but i remember there was some fine gravel in the curves, just keep and eye out