Youāre preaching to the choir mate 
Damn dude what happened? You ok?
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5 April, wasnāt feeling well but told myself a few beers would help. Visited mates brewery, followed by two pubs. Admittedly, I was pretty munted by this point.
Went for a burger, and visited a mate on the other side of town. Worth noting, there had been no coordination based accidents by this point, despite my photos being the only memory of the burger purchase, though I now recall that visit.
Leaving Mobility Markās, I didnāt feel up to skating. I was exhausted and wished only to sleep. Even Mark was concerned for me - rich for someone who rides a mobility scooter at 70kmh on two wheels, although Iāve only got myself to blame for itās 20S12P battery.
I made it round the first corner to be greeted by two unexpected situations.
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Loose gravel everywhere due to incomplete and unexpected road resurfacing. 80mm thanes got me, I really wish I was on 110ās at this point. I would have been travelling close to 50kmh on the little series 1 bamboo.
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The po-po coming the opposite direction.
This yielded me a free ride home, and a call from the Mrs wondering why she saw me on home security camera footage being delivered by the cops.
The next day my wrist was put in a cast for āfractured fingersā. For this week, I was still busy clearing my yard for the new garage of which construction is now underway.
Then, I had another two weeks nearly of ālight dutiesā at work wearing a brace, and informed the fracture diagnosis was incorrect.
Today at short notice I was supposed to travel for work to deal with some 5 axis CNC playing up, so made my hand appointment a day earlier - yesterday. Another X-ray, an ultrasound, CT scan, and multiple appointments later I was scheduled for surgery ASAP, and that surgery was this morning. It turns out there is a fracture, and it hadnāt been picked up prior. There went the option of performing only laproscopic surgery.
My wife being a theatre nurse was geeat, and I expect friends in theatre working on me helped facilitate a favourable list order. Everybody I encountered today and yesterday have been exceptional.
Iām home now, having had calcification removed and the joint properly aligned. No screws, but wires to be removed in six weeks time. I was fortunate to have been operated on by quite a reputable consultatant.
This month has been hectic. From beginning the garage after 15 years of living here, to nearly buying my neighborās house at auction to save my local sovereignty from developers, and now this ā¦ At least I got the Lonestar out for a 65km gentle skate around the peninsula this weekend though. Iād be in so much trouble if I get spotted doing that in the next two months.
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Oh man that sounds pretty roughā¦ but its times like this you gotta fully appreciate our healthcare systems.
Speedy recovery dude, stay away from those police, they bad news
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These cops were cool, they just wanted to help
Yeah our healthcare is good. Yours is better for certain things like if you had a baby with genetic defects for example (dwarf), there is meds in Australia free but about $250k a year in NZ.
Our ED department better than the private emergency care. Iāve got insurance, so went private for my initial care and thatās where they cocked it all up.
All in all, we all got problems and despite the stress at times, consider myself pretty lucky to have the ones Iāve got.
Maybe I can use this time to get familiar with freecad. I started drawing motor mounts on it at the hospital until getting stuck understanding how the constraints all work
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Ive not used freecad but constraints in fusion can be confusing as fuck sometimes. Like yelling at the computer screen fucked 
good luck!
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Chur, I need it.
If I get too frustrated, Iāll just do my old injury and operation recovery games like ārepair the home theater ampā. Iāve usually got one or two broken ones saved for rainy days.
Freecad is reminding me a lot of TPA CAD or F4 integrate, which is what comes on the Felder CNC routers we sell. Iāve not spent a lot of time with it, but so far Iāve created a spreadsheet and linked the variables to constraints so a mount for example can be lengthened in a spreadsheet without having to amend the drawing.
I like that itās not cloud based, wonāt become monitised, and tell myself if Benjamin Vedder uses it then surely itās good enough for me.
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I havenāt even gotten that far I suppose that would satisfy the topological naming problem @TimR . Thx for the tip I knew of it yet only explored it in Path wb, which by the way is another nightmare.
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Uhhā¦ what? This is hands down the most insane part of this story
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Sounds like mark is the one with the 20S scooter thing and Tim was on a board with urethane. Separate vehicles Iām pretty sure
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Iāll have you know, i donāt appreciate the reminders that i never learned to read.
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They might be 82mm to be fair, but my verniers are in my car, and my cars at the office since I drove it there and skated to hospital on Monday.
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Oh, in that case, totally normal battery size. Carry on.
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My mates mobility scooter has the 20s/12 battery. I built it for him when he lost his license for drink driving, and he has back injuries. He did the fabrication and fibreglassing. Itās driven by a kunray motor, solid rear axle with a chian and some handling mods.
My series 1 evolve has a 12s8 battery. Iāve built three of these boards now since making the mould, I actually really like them after getting used to them / setting the up right. My other has 97mm wheels which are less fun but a little more forgiving.
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DKPs, RKPs, channels, the M1 swing arms, 3-links, Dualities (two boards!), running on belts, gears, open gears, even a 4wd DDā¦ I donāt think Iām allowed to buy anything else forā¦ ever?
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Where are the thane boards and EUCs?
Pump those numbers up!!!
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Sweet driveway dude.
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Of course thats what you admire 
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All kinds of fun obstacles.
I wanna see you go off the tall launch ramp on the mountain board.
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They are really fun! We built all those featureās during Covid, and been skateboarding them ever since. I really want to build an analog mountainboard and incorporate those rails/ramps into my dirt jump course, I have built out a course for bikes, now I just need a mountainboard for it. I donāt know about hitting that big ramp on my mountainboardā¦ the coping is very thick.
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