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Ya'll ain't gonna believe this!!! After all the help and advice I received here when I was trying to figure out how to beat my lack of enthusiasm, I was really excited about getting back out in the woods, forests and trails and riding my mountain bike more. So in between coats of color on the custom bike I'm flaming, I got out in the parking lot at the shop yesterday and started bouncing around; doing wheelie drops off the bank, bunny-hopping over other areas. Well, it seems the jolting and jerking worked on a muscle under my right arm that was injured 3 or 4 weeks ago in another bike crash. I was fine for about two hours, but when I started rolling out the airbrush equipment to finish the details on the flame job, this muscle decides to LOCK UP. It would take my breath everytime I moved wrong, and it was often. I took some pain medicine and it helped, but this morning, it is already fighting me as I do a few lil' things.
Anyhow, I believe it's God's way of saying, "Take a break from it ALL". I'm here at the shop now, because I'm gonna go ahead and do what I'd planned to do this winter: tear the mountain bike apart and paint it, AGAIN. The first time went great, but it didn't hold up. I didn't research the right primers for aluminum, but since then I have figured out what to use. I'm going to take a MONTH and do it right this time. Last winter, I did the whole thing in a week, because I was anxious to ride. Now I'm gonna take the time to do it like I would a kick-ass project AND give my muscle time to heal. Besides, riding in this HEAT (85-90 everyday with unreal humidity) will zap you, but the FALL is killer around here (and the snakes start hidin' too).
I'm not sure what I'm gonna do. About four months ago, I started planning this; I wrote down 20-30 of the best ideas I could think of and started weeding them out. Just this month, I narrowed it down to one (hold on to ya hats): a black base with HOK Ice Pearls buried under 3-4 coats of a Kandy Violette/ Magenta mix with orange to red "swiss-cheez" shred graphics with gray pinstripes. I used these techniques on a couple of motorcycles last year and it worked great. I'll post some pics as it gets there!!!
-------------------- Pierre St.Marie Stmariegraphics Kalispell,Mt www.stmariegraphics.com ------------------ Plan on knowing everything before I die and time's running out! Posts: 4223 | From: Kalispell,Mt 59903 | Registered: Mar 2000
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The Lord does work in mysterious ways. Maybe He is trying to tell you to show down...
I think you need to go sit under a tree by a stream somewhere and consume mass amounts of the beverage of your choice.
Have a great one!
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6464 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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I don't know that God is trying to tell you something but I do know that your body is trying to tell you that you do need more calcium. Calcium gives the muscules more elasticity. I used to breed dairy goats and found this fact out then. I used to give them vinegar (acid keeps calcium liquified so that it can be used where its needed) to make their muscles more stretchie for easier births. Not only did it make their births easier, the goats had bigger babies and gave considerable more milk when on vinegar. (I expect someone will make a joke about this).
Drinking more acid stuff can help. Eat more pickles, drink a SMALL glass of wine (wine is an acid) everyday (more jokes. hehehe), take more calcium-preferably colloidial calcium.
When I start getting muscle spasms, I usually can go take extra calcium and it acts like a muscle relaxant.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Dwayne, sorry to hear about your woes, but like some have said, sounds like a rest is in order!
I will email you tonite re: crashin', ridin' and BC and NC ridin' what you riding??
John Lennig / SignRider
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Dwayne, This past spring I did sometning similar. After finishing up a bunch of race cars and going to the meet in Massachusetts, my arm began to hurt. After seeing the doctor, I was told I had Bursitis in my shoulder and underwent medication and therapy to straighten it out. That was my body's way of saying "Take it easy, willya?" Since then I have whittled down my schedule a bit, taken on jobs that are not prone to reinjuring my shoulder and realized that being a workaholic is a quick trip nowhere.
Stress relief has many forms, but one result. It's good for you...every time.
Rapid
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The British vet James Hariet (SP?) who wrote the book series "All creatures great and small" used calcium injections as a qiuck aid to animals, with dramatic results. I'm pretty sure midwifes also use calcium injections.
I have a book on Vermont folk medicine that talks about the benefits of apple cider vinegar. We always have a bottle handy. I have fought off the begining stages of numerous colds with it.
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
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Laura, thanks for the advice, but actually, I do take in alot of calcium and potassium. I just took a HARD crash awhile back (flipped over the handlebars from atop a 4 foot tall log pyramid and landed on my side on top of some roots) AND I just didn't give myself time to heal (I waited a week before going riding again). However, the idea of drinking a lil' wine does sound good!!!
I'll keep in touch, because I'll start disassembling the bike tonite. If you want to see pics of it as we go along, check out the website, maybe Friday @ [URL=http://www.paintwhat.com][/URL]
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Jim, I read those two books and it changed my life. I loaned the first one out and never got it back. Now its out of print and I can't find it anywhere.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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My mother was into nutritional health all her life, and while I didn't give it much thought, what the others said is the same thing my mom was saying.
However, the real problem here is bouncing around on your bike takeing risks that could result in far worse injuries. Are you trying to to end up on ESPN or on the evening news: "Sign maker breaks neck doing stunts down the handrailings at city haul"
This is just toooooo funny, sorry. Hope you live long enough to show us the paint job on your bike!
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laura....since you brought up goats....and this helped them....hehehehe do you think it will help these goats http://www.tennesseemeatgoats.com/myotonic.htm i saw these in pa at a small animal farm outside of uniontown pa. also if any of you have the FOXFIRE series of books...in the "hill medicine" vinagar is widly used. as for fighting colds....best thing is capscian(?) the stuff that makes pepper and hot sauces give the experiance of HOT!!!! i eat at a mexican restaurant and i get the "hot salsa", they only give you this if you ask for it, most people cant eat it. also i do thia cooking at home, and use a hot sauce on the veggies, fair warning on thia food never go to a thia restaurant and order your food "HOT" their mild seasoning is enough for even me.
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