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  • easy rider

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    If you're retired it shouldn't matter what time you wake, unless you have an appointment. I wake around around 6:30am during the week. Sleeping in on the weekend to me is around 8am. During the summer it's relative to when I decide to go to bed, but then I'm in slacker mode, so I just don't give a sh*t.
     

    bbbass

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    I had to walk I-beams 4 inches wide over 60 feet up with a belt harness. We knew if we fell that we may only have minutes to be rescued. I never had a problem looking down, looking up was worse for me, but I never fell.

    My middle brother was a high rise welder... walking like you said, many stories above.

    I didn't have a problem looking up or down when tower climbing. But when I got older, a quick look up would send me into vertigo, and then I really had to hold on if I wasn't already strapped in.
     

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    My middle brother was a high rise welder... walking like you said, many stories above.

    I didn't have a problem looking up or down when tower climbing. But when I got older, a quick look up would send me into vertigo, and then I really had to hold on if I wasn't already strapped in.
    Clouds moving overhead would give me a sensation of falling if I was standing at high elevations, but didn't bother me as much sitting.
     

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    Knees. Loved to run long distance.
    “Nobody told me” my genes were not nice to knees of runners.
    oh well.
    I was superman when I was young. The older welders would tell me I needed to protect my knees, and my response would be, "Pffft! I can work on my knees all day". Now I'm the old welder telling the young bucks, "You had better protect your knees."
     

    Axxe55

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    I was superman when I was young. The older welders would tell me I needed to protect my knees, and my response would be, "Pffft! I can work on my knees all day". Now I'm the old welder telling the young bucks, "You had better protect your knees."
    I probably should have wrapped myself with bubble-wrap to protect all my body parts!

    There just isn't anything that doesn't hurt when I get up in the morning now.
     

    Axxe55

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    That's why I sold all my bikes in 2005.
    After the last wreck, and shattering my ankle.
    I sold and traded off all my dirt bikes in about 2000. That stupid gene I have when I get on a dirt bike or ATV and old age don't go together.

    The last crash I had on dirt bike, I fractured my hip, four ribs and a vertebrae in my neck. Took me a few months to heal up from that one. Painful too.
     

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    I sold and traded off all my dirt bikes in about 2000. That stupid gene I have when I get on a dirt bike or ATV and old age don't go together.

    The last crash I had on dirt bike, I fractured my hip, four ribs and a vertebrae in my neck. Took me a few months to heal up from that one. Painful too.

    I rode a Yamaha RD350 to work in 1976, it put me on the ground due to mechanical.

    Rode this Honda Shadow 700 to work in 2009 or so. Same story. I gave up. I'm not the kind of guy that should have a cycle... to much bike maintenance required.

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