Are you still fit to ride?

[SteveP]

Really interesting.
I'm currently out of action, recovering from a broken/dislocated ancle. I seem to have been breaking this ancle regularly (four times!) over the past 50 years. It's amazing how long the recovery process is taking this time round.
Six months on I'm just starting to feel happy operating the pedals in my car and driving. I can't drive my motorhome because the pedals are too heavy. I would not feel at all confident manoeuvring my bike around, so it's sat in my garage.
Because I was incapacitated for 9 weeks all my muscles and joints seem to have suffered. Little jobs now seem to be major projects.
I think I'm trying to say is use it or loose it. It doesn't get any easier.

 

[gggGary]

Took the scenic route home after a meeting last night, early twilight, didn't see the deer til it was in the road. Fortunately it didn't change it's mind and was across and going into the woods on the other side before I got there. The drum front Norton isn't BAD but it's not a double disk stopper. It helped that I was riding but not at a hell bent for election pace.

 

[RC4MAN]

Thought we covered this in the Ageing Out thread, groan, feeling older already

 

[SteveP]

The nephew hit a deer a few miles up the road from where we live. Apparently he was only doing the legal speed (honestly officer).
The deer ended up as venison in a local farmers freezer. The nephew was laid up for several months. The bike he was riding was a write off.
He will never ride a bike again (or so he tells his mother).