Unfortunately that’s so true… It’s hard to find descents or climbs any higher than 10m and since we don’t have any rocks in nature, all you can find is loose sand and some roots in a natural surrounding. So unless you revert to man-made lines, it’s very limited.
That’s also the main reason I don’t ride muni a lot. I would love to ride stuff like Ryan Kremsater does, but there’s just nothing to practice that stuff here…
That really sucks. I’ve got an injured wrist myself despite using wrist guards, but I somehow strained it in the direction that the wrist guards don’t offer protection.
What I found however is that learning to ride with your other hand isn’t that hard. It felt really awkward for the first couple of days, but after about two weeks now I feel I am close to where I was with my left hand before I injured it. One of the worst things was instinctively grabbing the handle with my injured hand only to feel a sharp pain from doing it.
Welcome xav29er. I live in Boston, and for some reason there’s a lot of German-speaking folks around where I live. Every so often I hear “das ist ein Einrad!!” in the park.
Oh no! Looks exaclty like mine a few years ago after a moto accident. You will heal up nice and strong. I will learn from your experience and order the wrist guards that I have been putting off.
Surgery went well. It turns out it was a clean break at the base of the existing plate, so healing time should be short. The Surgeon intended to remove the original plate and replace it with a single longer one, but couldn’t get the locking screws to undo so just overlapped the new plate with the old one.
Hopefully I’ll be back riding within a few weeks, though I won’t be going off road again.
Myself, I have a hard time seeing these kind of graphic images.
Maybe for the next one you could provide a link so someone who doesn’t want to see it doesn’t have to.
Show us a “picture(s) of your latest ride” in this thread and post your injuries in the “picture(s) of your latest injury” thread.
I would really appreciate that… maybe others would too.
Hey Dino I can imagine wrist guards are a priority now so I hope you get some and that they help if needed again. I wear guards every time I ride even though I’d rather not and I know mine have saved me a few times thankfully.