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  • Be honest – how Broken is your body?
  • treemagnet
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    My right ankle, knee, elbow and left hip, wrist and elbow are really pretty good! 😀
    Almost all other joints (and spine) either clicks, creak or just stiff/hurts! 😕
    Can’t remember how many times I’ve been concussed, apparently my memory is a bit iffy too!
    (another ex mxer and other hard on the body sports)

    Feels better than a few years ago though! …maybe on the mend?

    Oh yeah, knee pain seems to have almost gone since going back to flats
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    ton
    Full Member

    leffeboy…….good luck with your op and recovery man.

    the rest of you…….MTFU……. 😉

    SiB
    Free Member

    I’m ok compared to you lot, touchwood. 42 years old and aching at times but thats about it. Broken bones have healed leaving no permanent problems/aches, maybe I need to push myself harder??

    Get well soon everyone

    sefton
    Free Member

    I always have some kind of injury or niggle

    Solo
    Free Member

    I’m in top condition.
    8)

    I could elaborate, but I’d end up sounding like Hora.

    leffeboy
    Full Member

    cheers ton – thanks 🙂 . Now about that ‘niche’ electric bike you were selling…

    rusty-trowel
    Free Member

    Right wrist has never recovered from this BMX inflicted injury 11 years ago, minimal movement and numb most mornings
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    Left shoulder has some long term damage and brain is kept sane by pills but other wise not bad for a man of my age : )

    Northwind
    Full Member

    Some good ones in here… I’m in pretty fair shape, the busted hip and knee give me some bother and quite a lot of pain sometimes but it doesn’t stop me doing what I want. The osteoperosis gets me from time to time, but I wear my pads almost all the time and that reduces the problem, just pick up the occasional break when I probably shouldn’t. Can’t grumble really, overall I’m fitter than I’ve ever been in my life and it’s mostly because of the big break.

    Dibbs
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    I finished 6 weeks of Radio & Chemotherapy last week, I’ve lost over a stone & a half, and I’m feeling pretty weak, but the Quantocks are calling me. 😐

    brassneck
    Full Member

    Well done Dibbs, I’ve been off the bike for 6 weeks with a broken wrist and that’s put my moping in perspective.

    Get up there with someone to tow you home if necessary. Give it a few weeks back in the saddle and you’ll be a climbing machine 🙂

    ton
    Full Member

    good luck Dibbs. 😀

    hora
    Free Member

    All the best dibbs

    leffeboy
    Full Member

    Well done Dibbs, it’s good to see the drive still there.

    senorj
    Full Member

    FairPlay leffeboy & dibbs.

    LoCo
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    nickc
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    Hope it goes well for you leffeboy and dibbs

    I will MTFU

    tutgareth
    Free Member

    Where do i start!

    Type 1 Diabetic from birth
    2 screws holding right elbow together
    Left tibia nail from knee to ankle through centre!
    Currently have both shoulders in varying stages of frozenness
    Recent lazer surgery on right eye
    and tinitis!!
    other than that lot perfectly fit and healthy……. for a slightly unfit 35yo fat knacker!!

    muddydwarf
    Free Member

    I have Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndrome which means my feet and hands are bolloxed.
    A tendency to dislocate kneecaps due to above.
    marked arthritis in my left hand..

    ..oh, and ive just dislocated my right shoulder an hour ago!

    DeeJay
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    Dibbs how was it? I start mine on Monday 🙁 making the most of this week by fitting as many rides in as I can.
    Other than the tumour the rest of my body is holding together well 🙂

    esselgruntfuttock
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    Holy Moly, I thought I was knackered but I’m spot on compared to you lot!

    Knees are goosed, probly due to kneeling on concrete floors when I was a mechanic. Both wrists ache on rides. Had a cataract op last year & the other one’s nearly ready (+ I’ve got an eye infection now). Feet & ankles ache If I walk far. Teeth are crumbling. Landed on me head on Good Friday & still suffering. & I’m only 56.
    Good on Leffeboy & Dibbs!

    oldfart
    Full Member

    2crushed vertebrae discovered then Osteoporosis diagnosed .Specialist told me to stop riding off road as that was too jarring for my back .He suggested instead to take up jogging especially on concrete as the direct impact would help load the bones in my spine ! 😯 My GP told me to carry on but be careful . Since then I’ve done a season in Whistler (that’s being careful!) Last bone density scan showed a 27 %. improvement in the density of my spine !!!! So much for the experts ? 57 btw

    oldfart
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    noteeth
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    Wrists aren’t great (due to 29 years of biking since my first BMX, not any other kind of wrist action… honest 😳 ).

    Smashed front teeth from a ground-sky-ground crash probably renders me undateable.

    Wouldn’t change a thing. Can’t imagine a life without bikes. 8)

    Edit: all the best to those on here who are dealing with real problems. Good luck to ya.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    I’m ok actually, well I say ok what I mean is rather good. But I do suffer from piles on occasion, too much straining and training hard it seems..

    daftvader
    Free Member

    2 displaced vertebrae in my neck from an old rugby injury
    torn cartelege in my right knee
    blown synovial capsule in left knee
    planar fasciitis in right foot
    and i go in to hospital tomorrow to get 2 ligaments fixed (hopfully) in my left wrist…
    seems slight inconsequential to some…. good luck to everyone

    ton
    Full Member

    Deejay……fingers are crossed for you mate.
    hope everything goes well for you.

    sargey
    Full Member

    Smashed tib and fib many years ago which left me with one leg shorter than the other.
    Right hip resurfacing due to right leg bieng shorter than the other.
    Backs knackered knees shot but still doing 40-50 miles a week offroad and did the c2c last year frequent visits to the pub helps 😆

    DeeJay
    Free Member

    Ton – cheers – hopefully mine can be got rid off – you, unfortunately, seem stuck with yours

    nowmefeelinit
    Free Member

    I’m one of the lucky ones – diagnosed 8 years ago but been in remission ever since the first op. Managed to get it very, very early. Ton, Deejay & Dibbs – all the best to you – will be thinking of you.

    More routine stuff includes collapsed arches, slightly dodgy knees, shoulder impingement on left side and managed an OTB incident yesterday so right shoulder and right ribs are very badly bruised but thankfully nothing broken. There’s a few other niggles that aren’t worth mentioning. Oh, apart from picking up some varifocals so I can at least read the date on my watch!

    I’m a very lucky 43 yrs old.

    bwfc4eva868
    Free Member

    Ruptured lateral colateral and anterior cruciate knee ligament and fractured patella ended my Army career. Currently awaiting results of mri scan to check above ligaments and lateral meniscus.

    Fractured collarbone aged 16 hit a tree on mountain bike.

    Abdominal muscle weakness so prone to Hernias.

    Hypertension

    Overactive Thyroid

    Heart murmer

    And I’m only 27

    larrythelathe
    Free Member

    leffeboy good luck with that, hope you get back on soon as.

    I have had a good time compared to some, i have viral arthritis i inject drugs to attempto keep it at bay failing that i take enough drugs to keep our local GP on their toes

    yesterday i had a injection into my achilles and another into my toe box.

    oh and i broke my arm a while ago thanks to a tree jumping into my spokes.

    The doctors have stop telling me to take it easy these days 😉

    agent007
    Free Member

    Just about getting over my recent bout of injuries. AC seperated left shoulder now 100%. Frozen right shoulder almost better after 2 years of trouble. Sciatica much better than it was thank goodness and injured right knee feels much better than it did this time last year. Maybe there is hope? Mid thirties and counting 🙂

    rockymerlin
    Free Member

    Ganglion cyst in my left wrist. Hurts like hell sometimes then fine other times. 2 years later I’ve still got it, really should sort that one!

    jezandu
    Free Member

    I get a few niggles in the cold and damp in my elbows but considering the damage I did to them from going over a jump and landing on my hands I shouldn’t complain. In summary I dislocated and broke both elbows cleanly snapping off the radial heads off the bones, and tearing on all the ligaments. I’m told I’m lucky still to have use of my arms, and that I would never straighten them or have much roation in them again.

    My elbows nearly fully healed, are straight and have near full rotation. I still ride on….I just don’t jump anymore.

    Scienceofficer
    Free Member

    **** me you lot make me feel better about my aches and pains!

    1981miked
    Free Member

    I have a list of ongoing aches and pains..

    Right shoulder keeps dislocating.. Surgery required
    Left shoulder aches from compensating for right shoulder
    Both knees fecked.. Click, grind, lock and ache every day
    Lower back pretty much seizes up in the cold due to 3 operations and mega scar tissue.. Makes winter riding near impossible
    Right wrist is weak due to getting tomahawked while playing ice hockey.
    Numbness in both hands and forearms when cycling.. Tried new grips, gloves and changing riding position..
    Chronic sinusitis which restricts oxygen intake through the nose, feels like I’m suffocation on a ride if its a bad day.

    Think that’s it for now. Only 31 aswell!

    Never broken a bone yet tho.. Touch wood.

    dannybgoode
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    I had to have an Ileostomy last year which has herniated somewhat and my right shoulder is knackered due to a kind lady driving into me at a roundabout in 2007.

    Don’t let any of it stop me riding though 🙂

    Cheers

    Danny B

    crossland
    Free Member

    Well now where to start…
    Plantar Faschitis
    Shin Splints
    Stress fractures
    Three cartlidge ops
    They are the main running injuries.
    A partly dislocated shoulder, from doing dips at circuit training.
    Trapped nerve in L4 vertebrae, no reflex in right leg for 6 weeks or so, took about 8 months to be properly right, its only when you cant sit down that you take it for granted that you can.
    No real cycling injuries to speak of, played squash for years and only ever pulled one muscle, perhaps this is telling me something….

    hmanchester
    Free Member

    I’ve got a very slightly sore knee, but that will probably go by the weekend. Nothing else.

    32 years old, sport 5+ days a week since the year dot.

    Touch wood.

    allthegear
    Free Member

    Had major surgery this afternoon so I suppose I’m feeling pretty broke!! 🙂

    Rachel

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