Should I give it up?

[flyingcr250]

Keep bike......
Get knee braces......
Wait.....
9 months isn't long.

I was off for 6 weeks a few months ago...........i cried every day.....

[jt119]

I was off for 6 weeks a few months ago...........i cried every day.....

....and night

[Night Falcon]

Ive had my fair share of enforced riding breaks but looking at my bike parked up every day only whetted my appertite to get back on it. My advice is make your decision in 9 months time. That way if you decide you want to keep riding you wont have lost a heap of cash having to replace your bike and gear....then again buying a new bike and gear is always cool

[cambocambo]

yeah and if you keep it for the 9 months you can still fire it up in the garage and pretend you are hooning it through the trails.

[Geeen]

I sold my bike once, took 5 LOOOONNNGGG years to get another one. I wasn't myself without one. Just sayn. Oh, watch a movie called "Love the Beast" by Eric Bana. Good movie about the relationship we have with cars/bikes.

[BoristheBiter]

My Other half come off her bike a year after we started riding.
She broke 3 ribs, split her liver and had a collapsed lung.

After that she could not do the dirt. We parked the bikes up for 6 years.
We got back into it 4 years ago after a 6 year absence but the bikes were never sold so when she was ready they were there for her.
Now I just can't get her off the bloody thing.

sell it and you will regret it.

9 months to save for good knee braces.

[Blagger]

Asking on a forum full of people who love bikes means that the answer is only ever going to be "Keep the Bike!" - This shows that subconsciously you don't want to give it up.

Your subconscious wants to keep riding and if you give it up you will be in conflict and literally hate yourself.

Obviously you have to keep the bike to retain any quality of life.

QED

[Subike]

My bike has survived relationship break ups, a business folding, unemployment, broken arms, depression, empty bank account...
It was the one thing constant across the years.
Even if for 3 of those years she traveled less than 1000 miles...
she was patient and waited for me to get right....each time
Then gave me back the thrill nothing else could provide.
Freedom.

[DVS ME]

Keep the bike! keep riding!
When I first started riding every time I got on the bike there was always a new bump bruise cut or injury worst being a broken rib and nose but its all a learning exercise every time you get better and better.
Rest up watch alot of bike dvds and youtube and you will be back on the horse!

[SpikedPunch]

Hey there, I am in the same situation as you! I had a little crash out at woodhill a couple of months back and found out I did my ACL. So I will be getting my ACL and previously ruptured PCL + damaged meniscus reconstructed whenever ACC get back to me. Probably be at least another three weeks before I even hear back, the waiting sucks. You might be able to get ACC to fund a really good knee brace for you. My surgeon Mr. Twaddle is going to try and organise it for me, he tried to get me one a few years back but they rejected it I think now I'm getting operated on and because this has been a recurring problem I will be able to get one funded, but the purse strings are pretty tight at ACC these days. Guess they could have saved themselves a lot of money giving me one in the first place huh...Then again, it is really my responsibility to protect myself and I should have been wearing a decent brace when it happened. You live and learn. If I can't get one funded I will be buying myself a good pair for sure before I get on the bike again.

I'm not conflicted at all about getting back to riding, I love it, and will miss it heaps while I can't, but my bike is set up just the way I like it, and it'll give me something to look forward to when I'm healed up. We are even planning an overseas riding trip next year Will just have to make sure to wear a good brace from now on! See how you feel after you are healed up, you're more likely to regret selling it and not giving it a second chance than the other way around.

[FROSTY:Me]

I'm gonna go against the theme here. I'd say sell the bike and buy a quad for now. That way you can get back out there and ride now without the worry about the knee recovering.