terpfan1980 wrote on 06/17/14 at 11:54:09:ToesNose wrote on 06/16/14 at 04:21:09:Don't rush it, make sure your ready before throwing a leg over again. Speedy recovery man...
Definitely taking my time. If I get to ride this weekend it'll literally be around the block (in my neighborhood/trailer park), stuck in first gear and puttering along slowly. Just enough to say I rode, and enough to give me some feedback on the recovery thus far. I expect "normal" won't come until somewhere in mid-July which would be about 9 - 10 weeks after breaking the bone.
Thanks for the good thoughts and words of caution. I definitely don't want to put myself in trouble.
Back to update just a bit... slower than I had hoped, but then again not too far off my original comments in the quote directly above.
I threw a leg over back on the 19th of July, having "sat on" and tested my own comfort factor a bit in the weeks prior to see how the arm/shoulder would handle any attempt at riding. Since then I've been slowly but surely working back up on the riding and actually did ride into work just a few days ago.
The riding motion and control is effortless really, at least when it comes to the shoulder/arm injury. When I'm holding the handlebar the arm is weightless and there's no pain at all. If I were to drop my arm off the handlebar and go to reach back up to put it back in place it is a bit of an effort, but not at all that tough. (Basically I tend to lunge my upper torso ahead a bit as I reach out with the arm.)
Riding has the added advantage in that the vibration tends to loosen up my joints -- including a bad back and the arm/shoulder joint and in effect give me a free massage as I ride.
I'm still disappointed that I cost myself 2+ months of riding time, but glad that I should still get plenty of riding time in the next several months (in my area weather is usually OK for riding until into December, as long as I don't mind the cooler temps).
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