Riding in plaster cast

I broke my wrist a couple nights ago and am now going to be in a cast for at least 4 weeks but the doctors said it is a funny break so it might be longer and I can't see me being able to stay off my bikes for that long. I was just wondering if anyone on here has managed to ride with a cast on their hand/forearm, and if so how you made it comfortable. I rode slowly around my university site yesterday and found it a little irritating, especially when braking but I can always put my brake cable on the other side.

and just to add, before I get wrecked, I am not in London at the moment so I won't be dealing with buses and heavy traffic. I am at uni in Bangor which has an estimated population of 12 so there aren't many cars about.

any help would be apprectiated.

Did you break your Scaphoid?

If so you'd be very stupid not to stay off of the bike.

I have no idea what I broke. I barely remember going to hospital on wednesday, and when I went to get a full cast today they told me nothing about my wrist, just put a cast on and told me to come back in a week for anotehr x-ray.

I assume it would ruin your tyres.

Joe I would wait, ask the doctors what exactly your injury is, and stay off your bike at least until the cast comes off.
Thats the sensible thing to do, however whatever you decide to do is up to you mate.

its probably a good idea to stay off the bike. how am i going to keep myself sane for the next month!

this should help..........

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hahaha thanks sem.

I assume it would ruin your tyres.

am I missing the joke? =S

Sorry to hear that but listen to james.

The cast is there to keep the bones/joint in place not to shield your wrist from mosquitos.
When you cycle, you put strain on the bones, joints, tendons and muscles. Let it heal, mate.

When I was a child, a friend of mine removed his cast week earlier (himself) and it was a collar bone which was fractured. He broke it again the same day during a football match. And he was a referee :-)

me being indestructible, i am currently riding with a questionably fractured wrist in a fibreglass cast
hospital told me i could use it so yeah, im using it.
not riding very often or very far, just riding to stop me going insane

i know it's dull, but you should listen to the doc. once the cast is off, see how it feels....

I tried to HTFU and ride with a cast 2 weeks after i initially broke my wrist falling off a cliff face thinking it was fine, no pain.
what i can say is that it was excruciating when it snapped for the second time, by hoping up a curb. I can't tell you how much it hurt, just bloody ridiculous

The cast is there to keep the bones/joint in place not to shield your wrist from mosquitos.
When you cycle, you put strain on the bones, joints, tendons and muscles.

Not on this kind of bike where the weight is on the saddle, not the handlebar;

work for me perfectly when I shattered my wrist.

Jeez..!? A few weeks kicking back now, or potentially a lifetime with a f$cked wrist - I'd say that's a fairly simple choice? I broke my elbow a few years back, and even following the doc's orders by laying off 6 weeks, it's not completely straight and aches on long rides... nothing major, just a pain in the arse I could do without. Do yourself a favour and give your body the chance to heal properly - the weather's rubbish at the mo' anyway.

i dont think im going to ride until the day i can get my cast off, maybe longer
thinking about it makes me realise im a bit silly :)

You could always set up a trainer indoors and put no weight on your wrist.

Or a hamster wheel is you need to burn energy

need to keep my fitness up
any ideas?
i run each night but thats soooo boring

sem I've been meaning to ask, is your name Sam, and you're just a kiwi who spells things phonetically?

OPer stay off the bike.
let it heal!

Jeez..!? A few weeks kicking back now, or potentially a lifetime with a f$cked wrist - I'd say that's a fairly simple choice?the weather's rubbish at the mo' anyway.

fair point, i do want to be able to ride pain free when I get this cast off, and the weather is always bad in Bangor...we had 40mph winds a few days ago, that was murder to ride in (that was before the breakage)

Or a hamster wheel is you need to burn energy

Good idea, I may have to invest in a human size hamster wheel.

what i can say is that it was excruciating when it snapped for the second time, by hoping up a curb. I can't tell you how much it hurt, just bloody ridiculous

Point taken, that does not sound nice at all, it was bad enough waking up thursday morning when I had sobered up...that was some serious pain right there.

Did you break your Scaphoid?

I just found out from my mate who took me to hospital that i broke my Triquetrum.

Not my x-ray hense it not being broken. I'm not allowed to have my X-ray =[

i know it sounds silly, but i got one of those mini trampets for physio. i still use it when the weather is really shit or when i'm bored - it's brilliant. you can use it in front of the telly and run on it, or bounce, hop, jump, skip anything you like to mix it up and it's a pretty good work out.... oh, and they are only a bout 20 quid.

I thought that said trumpet.