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Just get up and start using your leg as best you can, bit by bit doing harder stuff.
I was back on the bike after about 4 weeks (when the swelling had gone down). If you can only ride round the block, just do that. Consider sticking a freewheel on (I actually rode fixed then).
Your acl helps hold your knee joint sercurely together and gives your feedback about knee position etc. Injury affects running around/jumping on your leg. Cycling is one of the most easy things that you can do with such an injury. There is no stability element or horizontal/lateral strains. The ROM is quite small and stress/forces are low.
You should be abck on a bike in no time.