Crutch man.......

[Plotus]

So I am a parapalegic mostly. fortunately I can manage with both legs as I come to a stop and hold up the bike just fine. Now my crutches................. yea...................?
So where do I put them ? As far as I can see, the downtube for the motor guard can have an aparatus/clamp dealie and the landing deck on the rear must have room for a clamping device. Well fellow members, Ladies and Gemtelman, boys and girls.... YX & XX'ers take note: ...........so anyway anyone seen this task addressed before ?

Ultimately I am planning to build a platform much like this Bultaco owners piece. It looks perfect for the CT if you ask me. My son's bike, him and Richard Silvers Honda parts are besties by now no doubt..... and his father and law too. Yes were ALL .....something, somethings.....

The father in law got my son going on old Military Jeeps, and NO he don't smoke, he was just proving he could roll with the changes...... it is Cali and he's from MN. And of course the obligatory quad audience...lol...

Yea man, I'm not buying Thailand's best, I'm making my own. Hoping for quality welds like Rickman does. So I will gather a couple machines along with a TIG welder and go to town........or out of town... https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai...NG6n7b_AhURk2oFHZeUAIQQ9aACKAB6BAgDEBI&adurl=

I spent a few years as a welder in my youth

 

[Little_Thumper_Boy]

Seems a collapsible-extendable crutch design might be another option. Compact enough to carry on the rear rack. Mother of invention anyone?

 

[Plotus]

Indeed your right, and I guess I was just hoping for someone to bring up folding crutches....... Good call.

 

[dmonkey]

I've got a few ideas to float other than or in addition to folding crutches. You could mount one to each side of the fork (or both one one side) similar to how the CT rifle racks mount, you could use the Endurance fishing rod case and stand both of them upright on one side, you could draw some inspiration from the various motorcycle surf board carriers to side load them, or you could just throw the crutches on the rear rack and avoid lane splitting or narrow trails.

Last year I needed a cane to get around for a few months after a crash that resulted in 3rd degree road rash on one knee, 2nd degree on the other. A real ATGATT lesson there. I was able to store a folding cane lashed to the top case on my CT. More recently I had a pacemaker replacement surgery and couldn't/shouldn't move my left arm much at the shoulder for a month. The CT's accessibility makes it my "cripple rig", much easier to get around on it with limb issues than a manual car or a motorcycle with a hand clutch.

Here's my CT hauling a somewhat wide load. For better safety and visibility you could tape some red or orange at each end to draw attention to the width of your crutches. You could also try running them front to back along one side of yourself but elevated from the rack.

 

[Wisco125]

Random pics along with continued posting of nonsensical pointless rambling that sounds like a bad translator usually leads to the perfect storm of building trust and then never hearing from them again after the classifieds ad. Just sayin'...

 

[Plotus]

I found this, a slight modification and there I have it.

 

[Plotus]

Random pics along with continued posting of nonsensical pointless rambling that sounds like a bad translator usually leads to the perfect storm of building trust and then never hearing from them again after the classifieds ad. Just sayin'...

Suggestion taken, how ever the supposition of a non-interest beyond the returning my ct to the waiting entheusiasts to enjuoy in the time of ct scarcity would be faulty as the purpose of my visits to the Honda Trail 125 forum. The time I joined untill my injury are a linear point of proof that I intended to be an entheusist here on the forum. It is coincidental my injury, that will completly remove me from two wheel motorcycling for now was not something I wished for. But if you were following my timeline you would see your asertion not aplicable, or at least my serries of events evident in that matter you suggest. A certain amount of acrimony exists here with a small fraction of forum members. I can overlook it, but how many other members have bailed or become silent with posting rather than deal with it...? Has anyone thought in those terms. It would behoove those commenters to reassess their methods and conclusions.
My vocal and picture flourishes were only incidental and meant as Humor.

 

[Wisco125]

I thought you were selling your CT and that was pointless rambling and btw plotus is an insult to Americans and now you are just missing random pics of African voodoo men that have nothing to do with JA55s or 65s.

 

[Plotus]

...no bite, but I have shown where to put your fishing poles...