Bike is in great shape, but cant ride.

[bigheavy150]

This is torture. The bike didnt do anything to deserve this, now it sits on blocks with parts removed,gas going stale(yes i drained carb) rubber rotting and metal rusting.


sigh, i cracked my shin(longways) in a accident that had nothing to do with motorcycles at all :evil: and have a 1-2month recovery time(im at 2 weeks and it still hurts) :evil: Im thinking more like 2-3 months before i can really ride like before, be able to jam my foot down to save from falls/slides.The mental image of trying to save a fall and turning my leg all floppy broken haunts me every time i think about riding.

I heat cycled the bike a little today out of boredom,some idleing,some reving and some clutch-fighting brake action inside the garage :roll: Prolly would have been better to just let it sit but im friggin bored.

I went out and did balance practice and crap. Got a new 16t sprocket for front but havent even put it on yet. no point. i will just keep taking it apart untill leg feels good then reassemble better then before.


untill then i will just continue to go stir-crazy

[Weldangrind]

Leg all floppy broken = bad.

Sorry to hear about your injury; good for you for fighting the temptation to ride.

[mizke]

vicoden is ur friend, i ve never broken a bone but damn dude must be painful

[RageHardIntoTheBendies]

Heal up fast!

[bigheavy150]

vicoden is ur friend, i ve never broken a bone but damn dude must be painful

HAHAH!!!! your funny. the doc gave me steroids and anti inflamatories.......I bought myself a BIG bottle of booze..NO painkillers :evil:

It hurts more today then the last week I dont know why, maybe that means its healing?

i just sit here? no work, no fun? geez! im going nuts lots of exercise on the parts that dont hurt and lots of milk and trying to eat good food but.......i need to go to the store :oops:

my leg never broke all floppy, just a line down the middle and 2 lil horizontal cracks all in the shin bone. it *can* bare weight if im very carefull and use a cain. But riding the bike,with as stupid as i am would result in a floppy leg :lol:

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"im off to make the 2nd pot of coffee"

[FastDoc]

I feel your pain. Been there, done that. Heal fast.

If you can weight bear though why not ride? Stay on road and off the bad leg. I've seen bikes with handicapped plates and riders with canes/crutches strapped to the back before.

FWIW I fractured my right fibula about 10 years ago. I was riding again in 2 weeks, but only bikes with electric start. I could not operate a kick start for about a month.

[bigheavy150]

maybe in another week i can take the boot off and just drive real calm. but i wouldnt ride with this moonboot on my left foot.

http://www.surgicalandgeneral.com.au/images/Foam.Walker.resampled.web.large.jpg

[lego1970]

WARNING this post may be a little offensive to some and is also a little adult oriented. I apologize if I offend anybody and will gladly remove parts or all of the story if it does.

Doc, please don't beat me up for this post. I know, I know, I'm the kind of patient that you would like to whack up side the head. My Sister N Law is a Doctor and she hate's me and my brother when it comes to fixing us. Like the Sinfield episode, I'm sure there is a secret file that only you Doctors have and I'm sure mine ain't good.

Anyway, that's how I stumbled across this site a few years ago....laid up in bed. I broke my lower left tibia/fibia in a tree accident. 3 of the 5 Orthopedic Doctors said I probably didn't need surgery and from the horror stories I've heard about pins and what not, I decided not to opt for surgery. They put me in a full leg cast with a neat little bone stimulating device that's suppose to speed recovery.

It's been a few years so I may be off a little, but my recovery went something like this,

0-3 weeks pretty much laid up in bed doped up on meds. Really only getting up to use the bathroom, or to get something to eat.

3-5 weeks the constant throbbing went away, started weaning myself off the meds. Now was able to get around, drive my truck, and mow my grass (useing riding lawn mower and cruch to operate clutch pedal)
for short periods of time before the pain would come back.

5-8 weeks could put a little pressure on the leg, take a few steps, and operate the clutch on the riding lawn mower, but was still in a full length cast. Would have dreams of being able to use my push mower. Dreams were vivid and kinda 70's like.....seemed as if my neighbors could of been the Brady's.

8th week they were going to put me in a walking cast but I got p/o'd at the Workers Comp Insurance people and told them I didn't need or want their help anymore. I know there are some people that take advantage of the system, but I sure as heck wasn't one of them, yet they treat you like that anyway.

9th week, went to home depot bought some heavy duty metal shears and extra cut off wheels for my dremel. Then to Walgreens drug store for ACE bandages. Went home, had a couple drinks of Vodka and began the procedure. Dremel work great except it had one flaw....burning hot cut off disk or melted cast material hurt like heck. Had to use Shears. They worked great as well, except for that they wouldn't cut in a straight line and my goal was to preserve as much of the cast as possible for future use. Cast came off, had a celebration drink. My leg looked like a white, skinny, hairless rat tail dangling from my torso, therefore I had another drink. I then took part of the cast that I just cut off and fashioned back on the lower leg with the ace bandages. I had the x-rays and remember how the doctor was torqueing my bone to keep it aligned so I just tried to mimic his actions when I applied the bandages. Had another drink, looked at the old Workers Comp papers on the desk and let out a hearty laugh.
Made my rounds with the nieghbors going from house to house in celebration. Ny cop neighbor across the street (who got his leg messed up from an IED in Iraq) congratulated me, then told me to hobble my slightly inebriated rear home.

9-12th week. Learning how to walk again. Doing some squat lifts with a 100lb bar but mostly useing my right leg to lift. By the 12th week I could get my foot to fit into my new work boots (they had to cut the old one off) therefore I went back to home depot and bought a couple flat 2" wide aluminum bars. I fabricated them inside the boot with velcro strips so that they would continue to keep the bone aligned the way the Doctor was doing it.

12-16 weeks. Could do a little climbing but couldn't use gaffs to hook up a tree. Leg would go numb by halfway through a work day. At that moment I started having doubts towards my own doctoring skills. I remembered my laughing at the Workers Comp paper and realized I may of made a huge mistake. I couldn't understand what I did wrong. Sure I didn't spend 8+ grueling years in medical school, but I did have access to the internet and I watched MASH growing up. I went back, explained to the Doctor what I had done, he did an X-ray, and then he said I was fine. He said I did a pretty good job with the make shift cast with the timing of when start rehiblitation, but then said the same thing as my Sister N Law, for now on let me do the Doctoring.

4-6 months. Could jog again, use the gaffs on soft wooded trees, and jump off of step deck trailers as long as I landed on my right leg first.

6-12 months. Almost back to normal and could apply a lot of pressure on the leg. Occasional ghost pains and still couldn't squat all the way to the ground but otherwise fine. At month 10 I Bought my barely used DR650 from a Orthopedic Doctor (of all people) in St. Louis and was doing good.

Today, everything is fine. Can't quite bend my left knee down like I used to but otherwise 100%.

Good luck with yours.

Pics of my leftover cast, bandages and 16" logging (chippendale, my sister like to call them) boots that held the aluminum strips inside. Which BTW, while those chippendale boots serve a purpose, they are hard on the knees, heavy, and you don't break them in, they break you in. Having said that, they make pretty good motorcycle boots. Used the aluminum strips last summer for a air tank mounting bracket on a semi truck.

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[FastDoc]

No offense on my end!

I could have told you about the heat buildup from a Dremel though.

People in general, and Americans (Canuks too :D ) are free to make their own decisions regarding their own health care. I respect that.

[lego1970]

No offense on my end!

I could have told you about the heat buildup from a Dremel though.

People in general, and Americans (Canuks too :D ) are free to make their own decisions regarding their own health care. I respect that.

Cool deal. Sometimes when I go to the Doctor I feel like I'm handing him a box full of parts from one of my failed repair jobs and saying "can you fix this".

Yea, wish I would of thought about the heat part in regards to the Dremel 8O

[SpudRider]

I'm sorry to hear of your injury, BH. :( I wish you a speedy recovery. :)

Spud :)

[Cal25]

Spend more time on here. We will try to keep you amused.

Get well soon. Maybe you need some Motocross boots now?

[Jim]

Hope you heal up soon :)

[bigheavy150]

*grumble grumble*

yea no workmans comp here, but i am a good $$ saver and my boss really likes my work so my job is still waiting for me.

Yea it would have been for the beter if the doc gave me meds, then i wouldnt have walked around the first few days when it did NOT hurt. i think i did a little extra damage those first days :evil: Because the last 3 days it has really gotten more painful.

[FastDoc]

No offense on my end!

I could have told you about the heat buildup from a Dremel though.

People in general, and Americans (Canuks too :D ) are free to make their own decisions regarding their own health care. I respect that.

Cool deal. Sometimes when I go to the Doctor I feel like I'm handing him a box full of parts from one of my failed repair jobs and saying "can you fix this".

Yea, wish I would of thought about the heat part in regards to the Dremel 8O

That LITERALLY made me laugh out loud! :P

[bigheavy150]

i may go with a cut up, hard cast but i would have to make it myself. They sell the fiberglass and gauss stuff to do it with at the drugstore here.

The moonboot does not really put pressure where i feel it needs it (the sides) and really i dont like the way it makes the leg feel under pressure.

hmmmm......... i may cast myself.......i will post pics if i do!!!


edit---- Also i may go get another X-ray when i go to the drug store for the casting stuff becasue this just feels different. im afraid i might have spread the friggin crack with my loco episode :oops: or do legs just hurt when they heal? becasue i have broke my forearms (shattered both at different times) clean snap on the collarbone,big cracks in my jaw and cheekbones and none of them.....like stinging,shooting pain. usually its just a deep throbbing this is like GGAAHHH!! not the most painfull but the longest lasting pain.


So i have heard the shin bone is super dense and under high stresses.therefor takes longer to heal. :x maybe i should resume using the steroids (Artridol)


(i just adjusted the boot(he said not to) and now my ankle feels MUCH better.the air sock part was too high in the plastic boot part. maybe my doc was a moron)

[Jim]

Do you have health insurance to pay for the cast? I don't think I'd do it myself... It worked out for Lego, but I still think for a cast I would let them do it... Just my opinion.

[lego1970]

Well, it's pretty obvious I'm not a Doctor, but like you I've fractured my right arm twice (falling off a ledge, and skiing), broke the long bones in my right foot (car accident) , fractured my skull (mugged in memphis during the 94 teamster strike) and had a slip disk from another tree accident a long time ago. By far the tibia, and slip disk were the most painful. The kind of pain that takes your breath away when it tweaks a certian way. The skull fracture was next, but it was a very deep throbbing pain, not the take your breath away pain.

I would do whatever the Doctor tells you. My beef was with the Workers Comp people, not the Doctor. Even then I don't know if I was really mad at the W/C people or just mad from being confined, in pain, and coming off a 3-5 week high.

As far as the pain goes, I was told when useing the bone stimulater that a throbbing pain was actually a good sign, however the sharp take your breath away pains were not.

Anyway that was about how long to recover and how long it took to do certain task. Good luck to you and keep us posted on how your doing. I don't know your past and for all I know your a Green Beret, but one thing I always tell myself when in a stressed situation is "it will be over before I know it". It's true to, before you know it, it will be next year and we will be laughing about this. Again take care.

[Weldangrind]

Sure I didn't spend 8+ grueling years in medical school, but I did have access to the internet and I watched MASH growing up.

Medicine, Lego style. :lol: