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[kevinmccune]

kinda stuck between a rock and hard place,I am having a hard time finding something I can ride and afford,due to balance issues its has to be a reverse trike or quadricycles,there are a couple of options an RT for around $2k( 16" wheels like to have at least 20") quadricycles total probably$1.8K when all is said and done,both big drains on finances right now or a basic quadricyle pedal powered( looks the same except no electronics) for around$.7k(get and assemble and buy motor and battery as I can afford it,for some reason cant ride delta trike( no scorn please I was 13 before I could ride a 2 wheeler(no muscle memory due to various factors)

 

[kevinmccune]

So! no one cares,think I will do one just for spite,been kinda financely embarrassed since my 3000$ tooth implant fiasco not to mention the muthas stealing from me. Like Johnny cash said"one piece at a time" I want to take an acoustic quad and buy the pieces one at a time,think I can get a 52 volt 20ah off a friend reasonable and get a Bafang 1000 watt middrive motor, was tempted just to get a reverse cargo trike,in the end the price got me,with my knees going south at least I can mostly ride,

 

[Chargeride]

Jeez, Im getting an implant after the tooth just in front of my molars casually split in half after me biting a cold mars bar.
You can only see it if I extra wide grin, but Im not going for a bridge so its implant time.

 

[kevinmccune]

Jeez, Im getting an implant after the tooth just in front of my molars casually split in half after me biting a cold mars bar.
You can only see it if I extra wide grin, but Im not going for a bridge so its implant time.

go for it,if you have the bone,much better then bridge I need a couple in the front half ass denistry made my front incisor fail was quoted about 12K for a bridge( first bridge got knocked out by cheap ass employers load tarp reel on a dumptruck-no,he didn't offer to help me out either.
Now I was going to get the rear molar extracted( a metal filling which I don't like) caused it too split I was quoted over 7K for both,couldn't afford that so the split tooth stays.On my front dental problems a slip of a boomer broke the front lateral incisor,boss didn't offer to help with it either,he had to see the damage,his response,a smile.

 

[PCeBiker]

That's what I know I'd wanna do.

Quads and trikes are rare and expensive.
Starting with a new analogue quad or trike that you like is the most important thing, and you can ride it while you save up for the electrics.

Used ebikes are Super Cheap now, and some of them are even free that you can use for parts.

You could place an ad asking for a bricked ebike. (maybe say "Nothing Stolen" in the ad ?)


Picking a trike or quad that's easy to electrify helps, so I'm thinking a regular metal frame with frame tubes that are as straight as possible to help with installing everything.
(drilling, tapping and welding regular steel is cheaper and easier)

Don't mount your battery where I did unless you're done having kids.

 

[PCeBiker]

Jeez, Im getting an implant after the tooth just in front of my molars casually split in half after me biting a cold mars bar.

I got an implant after I got hit in the mouth with a hockey stick.

I don't even play hockey (like Every Canadian is supposed to do) and I can barely skate.

I learned to skate on rollerblades before I could figure out ice skating.

I was at an outdoor skating rink when some Jackass was playing hockey on the wrong part of the rink.
I turned around from going backwards and caught his stick in my mouth and I started gushing blood.

He apologized Profusely and I said don't worry about.

A week later the girl behind me in math class asked why my tooth was brown.
I had no idea, so I went to the dentist where he put a bug zapper on my tooth and I couldn't feel a thing.
It turned out that the nerve was broken and bled into my tooth turning it brown.

So the dentist did a root canal and bleached it from the inside out to help whiten it, but it stayed brown.

A few years later I had a veneer put on to cover it up, then I chipped the veneer a while later and had to get it fixed again.


Then a few years later I was trying to tie a rope and used my mouth as a third hand to tighten a knot.
I heard a huge Crack/Crunching noise and my tooth was left dangling from my mouth by a tendon (or whatever that part is called?)

So now its time for an implant, but it was my front tooth that gets way more torque on it than a molar, so they had to cut a hole in my ass, cut out a piece of hip bone (about the size of an inch of popsicle stick) and peel my gum back to bolt the bone transplant to my jaw, then peel back the gum again a few months later to remove the screws, then do a gum transplant by peeling flesh off the roof of my mouth to stitch it to my gum.

That lasted a couple decades until a few months ago when I bit into something that chipped both my front teeth right between the two.
Including chipping the ceramic (I think) implant.

I don't care.
It doesn't hurt, it's not rotting, and I can still eat.
It's just cosmetic, and dealing with implants has turned out to be a Real Pain In The Ass for me.
Literally, figuratively and financially.

 

[PCeBiker]

My dad was having sciatica pain when driving his car and couldn't get comfortable.

He went to the doctor and other than pain killers, the doctor was no help.
He spent $1,200 on a fancy new driver's seat but it didn't help.

He finally got rid of the pain completely by not sitting on his wallet, and started putting his wallet in his front pocket.

 

[PCeBiker]

My first dentist when I was a kid was as old as dirt and didn't use freezing for all my dentistry needs, until I had to have a rotten tooth pulled when I was seven years old.

I was walking back to the car afterwards and asked mom why it hurt?
She said "because the freezing is coming out".

With nothing else said, I decided that I HATE Freezing.
It hurts too much when it comes out.

A few months later I got mom to watch me ride my bike down the road and into the driveway at Lightning Fast speed.

It didn't go as planned, and I ended up standing in the bathtub (to not make a bloody mess everywhere) crying and begging not to go to the hospital.

I ended up in the ER waiting room and the guy in front of me let me go in for stitches first.

He coincidentally had the same injury as me, but he was older and crashed his motorcycle.
He had a 4" cut across his knee and down 2" with the flap of skin hanging out.
He calmly sat there reading a magazine and felt sorry for me so he let me go first.

I got into the operating room and they came out with a big needle of freezing and I Protested LOUDLY.

They thought I was afraid of the needle, but I was afraid of what was in the needle, so they finally just stitched me up without freezing.
All that I needed was for the nurse to hold my hand while the doctor stitched me up.

I wonder how things would have turned out if mom had said "because the freezing is wearing off" instead of "because the freezing is coming out"?

I've spent my whole life suffering needlessly because of a simple stupid misunderstandings.

 

[PCeBiker]

So now its time for an implant,.. so they had to cut a hole in my ass, cut out a piece of hip bone,..

I remember being given a script for a pain killer after the surgery and I took it to the pharmacy.
He said it was for a "special elixir" that he had to whip up and said "you don't need this do you?"

I said no, not knowing what he was getting at?
I was told that I would be in bedridden for a week, hobbled for a month and not fully healed for up to 6 months.
I had no intention of waiting that long and went cross-country skiing three days later.

I was afraid of ripping my stitches, and wanted to feel any damage that I might be doing.


I can thank my Lucky 's for refusing the fancy elixir.

I had no idea what an Opioid was at the time, and I may well have avoided the painful road to death from an addiction that's harder to kick than smoking.

I also kept on refusing the freezing at the dentist and it kinda floored the dentist.
He said the only other patient (of over 1500 patients) to refuse the freezing was a world War 2 Vet.

I wasn't trying to show off, or be tough, brave, or cool.
I just wanted to get it over with without waiting for the freezing to kick in.
It was just a tiny cavity that didn't hurt, so it wasn't into the nerve so I wouldn't feel the drilling anyway.

I had another two teeth pulled when I was 19 to make room for my teeth to move when I got braces.
Braces are for kids, but I didn't like the gap between my two front teeth.

I wasn't gunna refuse the freezing for that appointment, but after my dentist Struggled for 10 minutes to rip the one tooth outta my mouth (he was shaking my whole head around trying to yank it out), I felt him cut through the gum below the tooth.

It didn't hurt, but I could feel it enough to know that he cut through my gum, so I shook my head a bit to say "WTF Are You DOING !!??"

He said "Did you feel that?"
I said "Yeah !", so he put more freezing in.

It turned out that my tooth was so well rooted into my jaw that he had to cut through the gum to cut the root in half, and pull the tooth out in two pieces.
He said it was it was the most difficult tooth extraction that he'd ever done.

I actually fell asleep once in the dentist chair.
He must have thought I passed out or died, cuz he kinda poked me to wake me up.


I want to get my own dentist chair.
It's the most comfortable and adjustable chair I've ever been seated in.
I'll make sure it comes with the drill so I can turn that on to help lul me off to sleep.

Some people use pink noise or the sound of waves to help them fall asleep, while other people are just Bat Crap Crazy lol

I do my own stitches now too.
I use crazy glue though because it's faster and easier than needle and thread.

I've got a scar in my left eyebrow from the stitches I got when I was two years old after running into the corner of a coffee table.

I crashed my mountain bike when I was in my thirties and went to my family doctor to get stitched up, but he said I needed to go to the hospital because he didn't have the equipment to do stitches.

I didn't want to wait half a day in the ER, so I went home and glued it back together.
It was a tricky procedure to look in the mirror and pinch the cut shut with one hand while gluing it with the other hand.

BUT, that wound healed up without leaving Any Scar at all.
The only scar in that eyebrow was from when I was two, and the scar in my right eyebrow was from when I caught yet another hockey stick in the face when I was playing "road hockey " in the driveway with my neighbor when I was 8 or 9 years old.