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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
GWS!
I dunno where else to post this !
- Thread starter Psycolist
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Shirker ....
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
It's amazing what you can do with a bassoon and a snare drum.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Hope all goes well and gets sorted quickly psycolist
The Jogger
Legendary Member
- Location
- West Sussex
Take it easy and GWS
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
GWS - hope the fettling goes well.
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Psycolist
NINJA BYKALIST
- Location
- North Essex
Many thanx for all your good wishes and messages of support. Home again now after escaping the need to go under the knife, , , , , , this time. They wanna send me to a place in Oxford to get some more long term help. God knows when that will be or wether i'll be able to ride again in the mean time. I'll just have to wait and see. At least i've got the next two weeks of the OLYMPICS to keep me from going completely stir crazy, plus the wife is giving all the TLC I can manage I expect that I will be trawling around the site popping up in the odd forum so keep posting and look outside, the sun is shinning 
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Many thanx for all your good wishes and messages of support. Home again now after escaping the need to go under the knife, , , , , , this time. They wanna send me to a place in Oxford to get some more long term help. God knows when that will be or wether i'll be able to ride again in the mean time. I'll just have to wait and see. At least i've got the next two weeks of the OLYMPICS to keep me from going completely stir crazy, plus the wife is giving all the TLC I can manage I expect that I will be trawling around the site popping up in the odd forum so keep posting and look outside, the sun is shinning
What's it for if you don't mind me asking?
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Psycolist
NINJA BYKALIST
- Location
- North Essex
Not at all fella. About 40 years ago I had a VERY serious motorcycle accident. It meant I had to spend the next 20 months in the Royal National Orthopeadic Hospital in Stanmore Middx, with amongst a host of other injuries, having my left leg rebuilt. At the time of my accident, I was a serving police officer and I have always felt that, rightly or wrongly, it made the hospital try a bit harder to save the leg. I was also very fortunate to have the accident on the night of the Xmas party at the hospital, and attending the dinner was a world renowned doctor by the name of E. L. Trickey. He had been one of the guys that put Barry Sheen back together. Anyway, they called him out from the party and he kinda made me one of his projects. At the end of 20 months, I still had a leg, but only because of multiple surgeries IRO metal implants,skin & full depth grafts and bone grafts. However, I didnt have an ankle joint and it was a good bit shorter than my right leg, and I also got a bone infection called Osteomyelitus. This infection just sits in the bone, dormant, waiting for you to get a bit run down, knock the leg or just because it feels like it, wake up and flood your system with infection causing septesemia, and thats just whats recently happened to me for about the 6th or 7th time in those 40 years. Alas as the years have advanced, I've got older and it seems that each episode gets a bit more serious and takes a bit longer to recover from. But there is a little hope in the distance. An infection centre in Oxford is experimenting with some form of implant into the affected bone that also lies dormant, but is triggered by the Osteomyelitus flare up, or something along those lines. And as Forest Gump once said, "and thats all i've got to say about that" Sorry if I went on a bit, but I do have alot of time on my hands at the moment, and you did ask !
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Wow, that's one heck of a story and don't worry about it going on a bit. So how easy
is cycling then?
is cycling then?
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Psycolist
NINJA BYKALIST
- Location
- North Essex
Cycling is a dam sight easier than walking to be honest. I use a short crank arm from a unicycle on the left to give me equal leg reach and also off-set the saddle to the left for comfort , otherwise, with this set up, I doubt you would realize there is anything wrong with me when riding. I do tend to give my left leg an easy time in terms of effort in pushing the crank around, but otherwise its all peaches and cream ! If you saw me walking it's very obvious that I have a problem. I cant really walk any distance, and I have to use a stick for what I do do, but some days are better than others. However, when i'm on m'bike, i am on equal terms, visibly at least, with anyone else riding, and that equality is oddly liberating. I dont really get tied up in stats about speed and distance ridden, I just ride coz I love it. I'm also an inveterate fiddler, and with a very few pounds invested in tools, love fettlin, fiddlin, maintainin and adaptin my rides, the wife would say, to a level approaching OCD. Just before I went into hospital I replaced my usual 5"rise alloy BMX bars with a set of NC17 trekking bars, I had some on another ride some years back and couldnt help wondering if they would be an improvement, and once I get an idea like that in my head, I cant seem to rest until i've tried it out. Sadly I am still waiting to have a proper ride out with them. I never like to really decide on something till i've had two or three 20mile plus rides. Sometimes, of course, you only have to go 100 yards to know something is wrong, like forgetting to re-tighten the stem. I've done that more than once. Anyway,,,,,,enough for now. Things are on the up.. Spent a couple of hours in the garden today just de-heading and weeding some pots, enjoying the sun on my back, feeding the tortoise and watchin m'koi, and feel none the worse for it tonight.
Rain tommorow I expect LOL
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Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
That's the spirit! It's amazing how many people with serious difficulties in life shrug them off and get on with it, when so many who are really very lucky, can do nothing but moan...
I know a few people who finding riding a bike easier and more equalising than walking. If ever a bike should be on prescription...
It's amazing how many people with serious difficulties in life shrug them off and get on with it, when so many who are really very lucky, can do nothing but moan...I know a few people who finding riding a bike easier and more equalising than walking. If ever a bike should be on prescription...
