London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

I broke my wrist a couple nights ago and am now going to be in a cast for at least 4 weeks but the doctors said it is a funny break so it might be longer and I can't see me being able to stay off my bikes for that long. I was just wondering if anyone on here has managed to ride with a cast on their hand/forearm, and if so how you made it comfortable. I rode slowly around my university site yesterday and found it a little irritating, especially when braking but I can always put my brake cable on the other side.

and just to add, before I get wrecked, I am not in London at the moment so I won't be dealing with buses and heavy traffic. I am at uni in Bangor which has an estimated population of 12 so there aren't many cars about.

any help would be apprectiated.

Did you break your Scaphoid?

If so you'd be very stupid not to stay off of the bike.

I have no idea what I broke. I barely remember going to hospital on wednesday, and when I went to get a full cast today they told me nothing about my wrist, just put a cast on and told me to come back in a week for anotehr x-ray.

I assume it would ruin your tyres.

Joe I would wait, ask the doctors what exactly your injury is, and stay off your bike at least until the cast comes off.
Thats the sensible thing to do, however whatever you decide to do is up to you mate.

its probably a good idea to stay off the bike. how am i going to keep myself sane for the next month!

this should help..........


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hahaha thanks sem.

am I missing the joke? =S

Sorry to hear that but listen to james.

The cast is there to keep the bones/joint in place not to shield your wrist from mosquitos.
When you cycle, you put strain on the bones, joints, tendons and muscles. Let it heal, mate.

When I was a child, a friend of mine removed his cast week earlier (himself) and it was a collar bone which was fractured. He broke it again the same day during a football match. And he was a referee :-)

me being indestructible, i am currently riding with a questionably fractured wrist in a fibreglass cast
hospital told me i could use it so yeah, im using it.
not riding very often or very far, just riding to stop me going insane

i know it's dull, but you should listen to the doc. once the cast is off, see how it feels....

I tried to HTFU and ride with a cast 2 weeks after i initially broke my wrist falling off a cliff face thinking it was fine, no pain.
what i can say is that it was excruciating when it snapped for the second time, by hoping up a curb. I can't tell you how much it hurt, just bloody ridiculous

Not on this kind of bike where the weight is on the saddle, not the handlebar;



work for me perfectly when I shattered my wrist.

Jeez..!? A few weeks kicking back now, or potentially a lifetime with a f$cked wrist - I'd say that's a fairly simple choice? I broke my elbow a few years back, and even following the doc's orders by laying off 6 weeks, it's not completely straight and aches on long rides... nothing major, just a pain in the arse I could do without. Do yourself a favour and give your body the chance to heal properly - the weather's rubbish at the mo' anyway.

i dont think im going to ride until the day i can get my cast off, maybe longer
thinking about it makes me realise im a bit silly :)

You could always set up a trainer indoors and put no weight on your wrist.

Or a hamster wheel is you need to burn energy

need to keep my fitness up
any ideas?
i run each night but thats soooo boring

sem I've been meaning to ask, is your name Sam, and you're just a kiwi who spells things phonetically?


OPer stay off the bike.
let it heal!

fair point, i do want to be able to ride pain free when I get this cast off, and the weather is always bad in Bangor...we had 40mph winds a few days ago, that was murder to ride in (that was before the breakage)

Good idea, I may have to invest in a human size hamster wheel.

Point taken, that does not sound nice at all, it was bad enough waking up thursday morning when I had sobered up...that was some serious pain right there.

I just found out from my mate who took me to hospital that i broke my Triquetrum.



Not my x-ray hense it not being broken. I'm not allowed to have my X-ray =[

i know it sounds silly, but i got one of those mini trampets for physio. i still use it when the weather is really shit or when i'm bored - it's brilliant. you can use it in front of the telly and run on it, or bounce, hop, jump, skip anything you like to mix it up and it's a pretty good work out.... oh, and they are only a bout 20 quid.

I thought that said trumpet.

I read it as pet tramp

I saw parapet. He has his own castle. Lucky cunt.

Parapet in polish means a window sill. I think jumping through the window can be bit drastic and unnecessary. It will heal eventually.

Typical Polish.. stealing English words and not having the decency to get them right.

At least they come cheap!

at least we make good plumbers ;]

What he said...

many moons ago i was told by a doctor not to play five a side football for at least six weeks (after removal of a plate from my hip) didnt heed the advice ,it cost me 3 months lying on my back ,eating, pissing and shitting in a hospital bed
DO AS THE DOCTOR TELLS YOU

Yes, just another vote for not riding with a broken wrist. It's really not a good idea. Save yourself for the rest of your life.

I'm now just hoping the when the cast comes off riding won't become painful for my wrist on anything other than smooth roads and the track

fixed.

It must have been very disappointing for you, James.

Typical James, lowering the tone again!

At least you were gentle....

Anyway, you not that attractive as I thought at first when you turned up in those lycra bibs. Are they size too small?

I broke my wrist early this year and started riding after the first few days. I didn't ride fixed though because there was no way I could grip the bars. I rode geared mostly one handed.

However, my wrist still hurts at times and I don't have full range of movement. Don't know if the bike had anything to do with it as I did a lot of other stupid things. I do regret it and hope it doesn't cause real lasting damage.

+1 ;)

once the docs give you the all clear, i recommend some granny bars with a big old rise. when i shattered my elbow i started back on them, it took lots of the weight off the arms. gloves with gel pads are good for vibration too.

If you can get hold of a geared bike, riding that one handed for a while or just resting the hand on the bars would be fine. Breaking your leg is a whole other story!

it will be painful because you hasn't bend your wrist for several weeks.

i broke my scaphoid 2 years ago when i was run over,
yes i cut the thumb off the cast with a saw so i could ride
yes, it plays up now.
don't regret it, i would do anything not to spend an hour on the buses with 50 noisey kids etc...especially in the height of summer
when i went to the hospital for the second x-ray, my doctor asked me if i rode i bike
i said yeah why
he said i saw you lock it up outside this window :)
don't do it.

I rode past a woman cyclist in Canonbury Square yesterday. She was carrying a couple of large carrier bags as she cycled and as I passed her I noticed that she had a plaster cast on her foot and ankle. I was most impressed.

How about riding gently with the arm strapped up?

Fat Joe, you have my sympathy. I broke my scaphoid a few weeks ago and I've had to have an operation to pin the two halves together. I was fantastically frustrated by not being able to ride and skeptical about the doctor's advice to stay off the bike: I thought they were just being overly cautious and knew nothing about the fury of being forcibly parted from my lovely bike. But no!!! The forum set me straight on that point (http://www.londonfgss.com/thread33268.html#post1065371)

My advice - stay off the bike, get used to running and do whatever the experts say to get your wrist healed. As so many people have said here and elsewhere on this site; a few weeks (even a few months) off the bike now vs. a lifetime of pain = no decision at all.

BTW I have an appointment in 3 weeks and I just pray that the bone has started to knit by then, which should mean I can look forward to ditching the Oyster card and getting back on the bike.

I feel for you squirrel, it hasn't even been a week and Im'm going mad. I have another X-ray this week so hopefully it wont be as bad as first thought, I really don't want to be in a cast over Christmas.

I have my fingers crossed for your appointment to go well so you can get back on your bike. I hate seeing my bikes and knowing I have to walk. It will make riding even better when I get to ride again.

Probably not advisable under the circumstances.