Did you ride today?

No ride today per doctor's orders. In preparing for when that changes, I got my brother to help me take my Sun recumbent in to have the failing rear wheel replaced. He not only has a pickup truck, but can also pick up my bike without hurting himself. I could before and will be able to again, but it's out of the question at present.

It may be months before I'm cleared for the saddle, but I'll be able to ride a 'bent before I can ride a diamond frame. I will be ready.

 

Good idea John ^

I hope that’s a possibility newleaf

 

I wish! When I recently spoke to the surgeon on a follow up visit, he flatly said no to bicycling, whether recumbent or diamond frame, on trainer or off . This is due to the damage done to my abs in the course of the first surgery. Though the damage is healing, he felt it best to play it conservative. Something about almost dying inclines me to listen to him, even though I think his orders suck .

The original plan was that I'd undergo a second operation to restore my body's normative functionality along about next week. Unlike the first surgery, the second is considered 'elective' since my life is no longer in danger as it was with the first.

Thanks to Covid, local hospitals have barred all elective surgeries requiring time spent in ICU. That means I'm on hold for the 2nd operation until at least February. I get the sense that I won't be cleared for the saddle until sometime after that.

On the one hand, that sucks hard. On the other, the very last thing I want to do is take an ICU bed from someone who might themselves die without it. Our local infection, hospitalization, and death rates are all spiking hard with no ceiling in sight. Even if it were up to me which it of course isn't, I can't see any justification for hurrying my own recovery at others' expense.

I'll just be that much happier when I'm finally cleared to return.

 

Stay well, John_V! It does me a lot of good to read about you and other TwoSpokers enjoying some saddle time. Thank you for your support.

 

Today I was tested. Darned near failed, too. Kinda wish I had: I went to the LBS with my brother and picked up my recumbent. The new wheel is beautiful, the fixed bike even prettier, just begging to be ridden. Sadly, I remain under Doctor's orders to stay out of the saddle.

I obeyed, but it was a near thing. Boy, do I miss the saddle. Seemed so wrong to wheel my bike across the parking lot and load into a truck when we're just a few miles from home by MUP... I fear these next couple of months are going to be long.

 

I have the gear .... tights, sweatpants, extra socks, long-fingered gloves, scarf or bandana, wool hat, wind/waterproof vest, bandana over the face .... What Southerner is crazy enough to go out in this weather Regardless of what gear s/he has?

Here in Flatahoma, weight gain has been the order of the season ... I am not sure my bike can support me anymore ....

At least it isn't raining.

 

"flatahoma"?

 

A ghetto region in between Oz and the Magic Kingdom ... a little known area which combines the worst features of a DisneyWorld parking lot, a drive-through liquor store, a rain forest, the Sahara desert, and every road in urban New Jersey ....

Citizens must pledge to uphold Flat-Earth theory, which apparently often includes a belief that bicycles are a creation of the devil ("Ain't seed no Bike-a-cycles in the Bible .... an' I don't wanna see 'em on the road, either ... unless they are laid flat so I kin drive over them.") It is illegal to own a pick-up truck with running boards lower than the top of the driver's head, while standing (or slouching ...) The only positive is that most drivers are too poor to be able to afford using their coal-rolling equipment.

Dogs must be kept on leases unless they have a propensity to chase or bite, and any square inch of land with more than five blades of grass has to, by law, be paved over or developed into a tract housing neighborhood.

There are two hills, one on each side ... of every highway overpass. In all other cases, developers are required to bulldoze any inclines into the nearest flood plain .... prior to building a tract housing neighborhood there, whose septic tanks are below the water table.

Without tourism the place would be .... well about as bad as it is anyway. So .... Y'all come visit.

 

You lost me at worst features of a drive through liquor store.

 

I was going to ride my trainer but this freaking elf just sat there and wouldn't get off ..... I didn't Want to slack off .....