Typical Cyclist, there is no helping us - lost cause.

[CopperCyclist]

I'm just trying really really hard not to make jokes about dangerous pussys.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Just before Xmas 1997 I fell of a ladder and broke my right heel, three days in hospital, eight weeks on crutches and a total of eleven weeks off work. Three days after I came out of hospital I was on the turbo, the second week I was off I started down the gym twice a week, after a month off I started going out with a local touring club with my crutches strapped to the top tube. In the February I completed the Cotswold Reliability Trial, I rode to and from the start/finish in Stratford and finished the event, over ninety miles covered. When I turned up for my physio on the following Monday morning I got the most enormous rollicking off the physio, the foot had swollen up again.

 

[slowmotion]

When I got my first road bike a few months ago, I had terrible pains in my fingers, wrists and forearms as I tried to get used to the new riding positions on drops. I sought advice from a younger member of my family....." Should I go and see my GP?" She said that, if I did, he would tell me to stop riding the bike. I told her that I was quite keen to continue riding, ....." Well then, don't go to the doctor, take some ibuprophen, and keep riding" she replied.

She is a GP. On the rare occasions when I seek her advice, she just tells me that it is normal "wear and tear", and that I should MTFU. I love her "bedside manner"

 

[monnet]

My sister's a doctor and while she acknowledges from first hand experience (me and the old boy) that cyclists are all a bit mental, most doctors don't necessarily understand us but they do appreciate us. For a start we look after ourselves better than most and being so fit usually means we heal faster, which does sometimes lead to other problems.

I think it was the Hutch who said that cyclists and the medical profession just don't understand each other. His theory was the doctor says 'you need 8 weeks off the bike'. SO the cyclist takes 3 and then wonders why, 4 weeks later, he's ill again. So the doc prescribes 4 weeks off the bike. The cyclist takes 2 weeks off....and so on. Makes sense to me!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

My sister's a doctor and while she acknowledges from first hand experience (me and the old boy) that cyclists are all a bit mental, most doctors don't necessarily understand us but they do appreciate us. For a start we look after ourselves better than most and being so fit usually means we heal faster, which does sometimes lead to other problems.

I think it was the Hutch who said that cyclists and the medical profession just don't understand each other. His theory was the doctor says 'you need 8 weeks off the bike'. SO the cyclist takes 3 and then wonders why, 4 weeks later, he's ill again. So the doc prescribes 4 weeks off the bike. The cyclist takes 2 weeks off....and so on. Makes sense to me!

I remember when I was on my last MTB marathon - I had grazed my arm on some trees and thus was bleeding. One of the paramedics wanted to clean and dress it. I declined saying I had had worse. He then said "Oh yes you MTBers will ride with an arm hanging off "

 

[apollo179]

Strange inconsistency in behaviour insofar that mountainbikers will ride with an arm hanging off but are straight of down the hospital for a scratch on the mouse. Id have thought it would be the other way round.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Strange inconsistency in behaviour insofar that mountainbikers will ride with an arm hanging off but are straight of down the hospital for a scratch on the mouse. Id have thought it would be the other way round.

It is to do with pain tolerance. The old chap isn't exposed to the kind of battering my limbs take (sadly)

 

[Angelfishsolo]

There are specialists who will provide that sort of service, for a fee.

So I gather. Can you recommend any?

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Not personally. The internet is your friend.

 

[david1701]

It is to do with pain tolerance. The old chap isn't exposed to the kind of battering my limbs take (sadly)

added to the possibility of bleeding to death if the nurses are nice

 

[Angelfishsolo]

added to the possibility of bleeding to death if the nurses are nice

I refuse to comment

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Whoa too much detail

Quite right! I had no need to know about the cat!

 

[apollo179]

So I gather. Can you recommend any?

I hope you or Adrian arnt spending the money you both save by cycling on that kind of misbehaviour. (or Mrsbehavin as she would no doubt be described on a phone box card)

 

[coffeejo]

I'm still trying to get my head around the "respect" comment. There's a fine line between brave and foolish and sleeping nekkid with cats in the same room brings to mind a quote from The West Wing:

President Bartlet: You know that line you're not meant to cross with the President?
CJ: I'm coming up to it?
Barlet: Oh no, look behind you...

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I'm still trying to get my head around the "respect" comment. There's a fine line between brave and foolish and sleeping nekkid with cats in the same room brings to mind a quote from The West Wing:

President Bartlet: You know that line you're not meant to cross with the President?
CJ: I'm coming up to it?
Barlet: Oh no, look behind you...