riding with a cast

[LB]

Hi Bluninja - good to hear you're safe and sound.

[RiderInBlack]

Hi Kaspers. I'd listen to these guys. They have had years of experence (some of it from not doing as they were advised). Spend the time getting all the things you need to get that little GSXR250 right (I've seen it and it needs the work). You'll end up with a wrist better healed and a awesome little bike to ride on (it's alot fast than the one you trashed, which could have also used a little attention to be safer).

My brother broke both of his wrists hitting a powerpole (he reckon that he was looking to see if the pipes were smoking, we reckon it was due to checking out the babies on the side of the road ). His right wrist needed a bone graft later as it had not healed well (more time off the bike ).

PS: it might be a good thing the lay off the handcuffs as well .

[kasper]

cold kiwi the cast isnt that high it just goes along my fore arm.

I have also talked to the faacture clinic and they said the riding would be fine but the vibrations would cause the bones to not heal. so it is either ride the bike but not heal or not ride and heal.

hmm great choices.

also i have already weaved the chain mail sheet for my replacement cast, which i get on monday, so that shold look really good.

I am also planing on writing on the cast the following words.

A small price to pay, for the lessons learned!

Any thing that you guiys want to have put on the cast?
write it down and either atach it as a jpg or email it to me and i will try and get it transfered on to the cast.

Oh and RIB the handcuffs wont fit over the cast, and my curent pair got broken in the crash, they wont lock now, but it may be a posible idea.

[DEATH_INC.]

I once got pulled up by a cop with a cast on my leg(broken femur)and my crutches tied across the bars........needless to say he wasn't impressed.
A week or so later I fell off turning around and strained all the new join and spent the next few weeks (christmas....DOH!)in hospital......
There's a moral to this story......

[pete376403]

Unless you have a really overpowering reason to keep riding, I'd leave it for a while - six weeks to get your wrist right opposed to the rest of your life if its not right.
I've a few speedway books that show the sort of things riders get up to when there's a lot at stake, such as qualifying for the World Champs. Ivan Mauger on crutches in the pits, being lifted on to his bike (broken leg). Ivan Mauger again, giving himself pain killing injections between his fingers (broken bones in his hand) Peter Collins with the twist grip on the left handlebar becuase his right wrist was broken (that must have been interesting - the twstgrip went the wrong way AND he worked the clutch with that hand as well). Bruce Cribb with a steel shoe fitted directly over a plaster cast on his left foot. Those guys were really keen.

[130wide]

Forget the cast, just tape it up.............what are ya........you'll be right, trust me, been there done that a couple of times.

[ching_ching]

Hey bro,

Wait till it heals.

But if you still go ahead with riding while got the cast on at least you'll be the stiff-arm king of the road knocking off those cager's wing mirrors eh bro?

ching

[Ur Most Wanted]

hahah Riding with a cast? cracks me up..
Just recently ive had a cast on my left foot....coudnt ride with the fucking thing, however i tried to get on my bike every morning on the way to catch the bus, from huapai to Takapuna....

One day i even put my bike in second, and went from my place, to the huapai takeaways in second gear, about 800 metres, in the same gear, it started off bad, was so going to stall, then it finally sped up, until it was rev'n its nuts off, It was the best tasting burgar i had ever had, well worth it

Cast was spose to be on for 6 weeks, broken foot, 8 days later i ripped it off myself, with a saw and a pair of 'soon to become blunt scissors' picture coming......

/Kerran

[RiderInBlack]

Cast was spose to be on for 6 weeks, broken foot, 8 days later i ripped it off myself, with a saw and a pair of 'soon to become blunt scissors' picture coming......

/Kerran

Cool, Not
Cann't wait for you story on how you foot got perminately f*cked