Thanks for all the replies some great advice and some laughs too. Well I still have not touched my toes but I seem to have hit a nerve with the singletrack posse.
(shuffles off to check out some leotard websites ) 😛

I used to be flexible but now I can only make Tuesdays at 8 pm

Not a hope in hell, i struggle to get my socks on the morning and have to crouch down, grab a foot and wrestle it into a sock whilst rolling about the bedroom floor like an upturned turtle.

But i do have an valid excuse 😉 , approx 40 odd titanium screws and a couple of ft of titanium rods holding my spine together and quite a few of my vertebrae are also fused, i’m missing T6 & T9 (along wi corresponding ribs) so a few inches shorter in the spine than i should be, touching my toes is pretty low down on my list of things to do. If i ever did manage to touch my toes then something has gone very-very wrong indeed 😀

I can’t, and I couldn’t care less tbh. it’s not a particularly essential life skill, chicks aren’t impressed by it and job interviews don’t ask for it…

can pretty much put my hands palm down on the floor

Northwind – Member
I can’t, and I couldn’t care less tbh. it’s not a particularly essential life skill, chicks aren’t impressed by it and job interviews don’t ask for it…

I means you can’t do a sexy, “Oops, i seem to have dropped my pen, let me bend over and get it…” in a job interview.

In my fifties now, but I can still put my hands flat on the floor 🙂
Essential skill for putting socks on surely? I can’t lift my feet up towards me, cos I get cramp!

I can’t before a ride, but I can after. Physio said it was a sign of tightened up ham strings, which in turn was the cause of the agonising shooting pains in my leg.

I means you can’t do a sexy, “Oops, i seem to have dropped my pen, let me bend over and get it…” in a job interview.

You’ll be surprised how often that has worked…

I can still put my hands flat on the floor…/…I can’t lift my feet up towards me, cos I get cramp!

what the lord giveth with one hand he taketh away with the other

possibly

CaptJon – Member

I means you can’t do a sexy, “Oops, i seem to have dropped my pen, let me bend over and get it…” in a job interview.

That’s why I have nude pics in my CV.