You are all so lucky

Sounds very hardcore. :( sorry not to have seen you on sunday... there was this drunken BBQ on though with some random twats.

Have a cup of comfrey tea (aka 'knitbone') it'll be fine, and ganja for pain reilief not co-proxamol (OK try both)

Sounds very hardcore. :( sorry not to have seen you on sunday... there was this drunken BBQ on though with some random twats.

Have a cup of comfrey tea (aka 'knitbone') it'll be fine, and ganja for pain reilief not co-proxamol (OK try both)

I've been taking comfrey actually. I hope it works. Hope to see you soon. Sunday!

Comfrey is fantastic stuff.

......that you can ride your bikes. I have a broken wrist with a cast on it and have been getting the tube to work all summer. It is so unbelievably depressing not being able to ride.

nothing exciting - I fell off riding down a mountain in the alps. I hired a full susser for the day as a change from my hardtail. Those french buggers had the brakes on the wrong side and they were jumpy as fuck. I skidded out going into a berm

Oh man, Do I know how you feel! I destroyed my knee trying to go to the toilet at my local pub in NYC! It took me an entire year to wait for my surgery and recover from it before I could ride again! :( My knee is still giving me shit even now and I cant ride like I used too.. I think I had put on almost a stone when I wasn't riding. Do your physio work when you get your cast off!

^^ Poor you; that sounds terrible

at least you are missing out on the shitful rainy and windy weather outside!

I really don't know when this stupid bone will heal. I've heard so many scare stories about broken scafoids (avascular necrosis! Bone grafts! Pins!) and got a fright when I googled it.. But then again, no one ever writes about it just healing as it doesn't make such an impression on them

I'll write! I have broken both of mine and both have (eventually) healed up fine, no pins or necrosis or anything. I was a bit cocky though with the first one, got back on the mtn bike too soon and kept re-injuring it, causing immense pain and rendering my hand useless for a week. reckon it took a good few months to get back to full strength. the second one I did skating 10 days before a surf trip... had the cast taken off and strapped the bastard thing up with adhesive bandages and went for it. I actually think the paddling helped the healing process.

^^ Poor you; that sounds terrible

I wish it had been a bit more heroic? Destroying your knee while going for a pee isn't really worth it. I am still slowly healing. Seems to get a tiny bit better the more I ride actually? It's just my old bones taking their time.

Time off the bike in the summer is shit.I have been off mine for the last 3 months since I had a series of blackouts, the last one being in swimming pool.....have had to endure both the train and tube on a daily basis.

Good news is , I have just come back from the hospital and have the all clear to start riding again.

My bro had a MTB crash and did his scaphoid. Wasn't diagnosed straight away, but he knew it was f***ed. So he did the Ironman Triathlon anyway. Knob!

He reckons he would have made it all the way around, only he got a puncture, and he could not, try as he might, get the tyre back on. Double knob!

He managed to finish the Nice Iron Man this summer, though. My hero!

So you are def doing the right thing, staying off it!

all the best Julio !

thanks. i'm not sure when i get the cast off. its the scafoid which can be dodgy...
i'm back in hopspita!

you can get it off within about 6 weeks but it will take you over a year for the pain to finally go away (for me it's 1 and a half year after breaking my wrist during a snowboarding accident).