maybe, just maybe you need to find a safer activity.

racketball
tennis
weight training
spin classes
boxing - training
jogging
train for a marathon
crossfits is very popular

seriously at the rate you are going the biking will kill you way before the diabeties. if (when) you break a major bone or have a head injury, you will lay inactive for a long time, diabeties is alway lurking.. You need to find a moderate save activity if you hope to keep it subdued the rest of your life.

 

Leo,

If you didn't have bad luck you wouldn't have any luck at all!

Be careful with a fractured collarbone. I had one, very mild according to the Doc at the emergency room. Two days later I was taking a shower and lifted my arm a bit too high....... dislocated, I heard it pop! Rather sickening feeling. Don't be a hero, keep it immobile for a few weeks.

The older I get the more I ride roads I know. A bit boring, but much safer. I know all the potholes and danger zones.

Hope you got that ring off before everything began to swell.

Wise old fella once told me there are only two types of bike riders. Those that have fallen and broken their collarbones and those that will!

to the club.

 

Sounds familiar!
Still searching!
Good luck!!

 

Thanks BROTHERDAVE , I would've considered giving up cycling if every time I set out for only 2 or 3 miles I got hurt. But you see, before my injuries I rode an average of 50 miles a day, that's over 7000 miles in 5 months and only hurt myself 3 times.

But I finally pinpointed the reason I failed this time. This was the first time I removed the four water bottles off my bike and filled the bladder from my camo bag with a gallon of water. I also filled the bag with tools to add 20 lbs of weight on me rather than on the bike. When I hit the surface's uneven spot, the bike and my body shifted violently, not enough to take a fall but it was the shifting of the camo bag that threw me off balance. Lesson learned, no more undistributed weight attached my body.

And so, I would like to leave you with this interesting quote:

 

Thanks for the advice serotta, it's good you mentioned to keep the arm immobilized as much as possible cause the slightest unintentional movement could aggravate the injure.

I have been babying the arm, continue taking my tissue rejuvinator along with Adva Cal, (bone-building calcium) and I feeling 90% better now; that in just a week after the injury. I will start walking 10 miles everyday next week for a week and, guarantee, I will get back on my bike the following week!

 

maybe it is me but 3 hospital vists in 5 months just seems like alot.


will it is true that Jordan played big, he also gambled big (and made a mess) and his womanizing with no reguad for the effects on his wife kids or pocket book didnt play out so well. Going big is not always the best way.

Dirty Harry: "A Man Has Got to Know His Limitations".

 

Good advice by Dirty Harry BROTHERDAVE, but "for what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels; And not the words of one who kneels. 'Let' the record shows I took the blows - And did it my way." Frank Sinatra

At any rate, just thought I'd update my thread and share my progress on my injury. Last week Friday, was exactly two weeks that I took a spill and fractured my left index finger at the knuckle and fractured my collarbone. Day 17, which was yesterday, fractures are healed and so I returned to cycling. Today was my second day, rode 47 miles in 2 1/2 hours.

By the way, last week Friday I went for my 3 month lab work. I'll see the endocrinologist on Friday; anxious to see my lab results.

 

Well, ....... it was my last chance!!!

 

That's what the tag said, see vvvvv

















For some reason or another in end up in my garage.















And that completes my order gentlemen.

 

You know OG, it's good to see that you can controll your urges..........
What has it been, 3-4 months since you started riding, and you have only upgraded your bikes like 3 times? har,har,har


They look good, enjoy and be safe!

 

Thanks jgger.

BTW, the voices in my head think you're jealous cause they only talk to me.

 

That's a badass bike. I ride a specialized but would love to have a fuel like that. Have fun on it man. How do you like the different wheel sizes?

 

I also stumbled on a last chance,


Lynskey Sportive Disc

I picked up the last frame in my size. It should be ready sometime in November, just in time for cold weather. At least the trails will be empty...

 

Bikes are more addictive than crack laced with heroin! You buy one for a few $$$ and figure it will be good enough. You literally ride your *** off and feel pretty good about yourself and then it hits... you figure out there's a more you can do. Suddenly you become a junkie and you start spending lots of money to get less, less weight that is. And like all things you pay more for stuff sold by the gram than by the pound. The lighter the bike the faster and longer you can push it. To compound the problem, you get a really good view of your equipment while riding so it's easy to see where you can improve things. Steel parts can be backdrilled, or made from carbon, or backdrilled titanium; steel parts can be changed for aluminum or even better carbon; solid pieces can be hollowed out. And you guessed it, every upgrade comes at a price.

 

Well today was kind of disappointing. First, my A1C levels only drop half a point; I'm at 5.0 now, I was expecting at least a 4.5. But the Doc. says that 5 is a perfect level and since I had a perfect blood work he doesn't consider me a diabetic any longer. I will only see him on a yearly basis from now on. I don't have anything thing to look forward to anymore, cycling will feel like I'm battling against nothing, feels like the war is over no need for the guns anymore.