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What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
G:
--- Quote from: CHROME_RIMS_YO on January 26, 2015, 08:31:17 AM ---lately during every session i've been hurting my right ankle, my right hand at the thumb/forefinger junction , and my upper back to the point where i can't ride or do much for a couple days after. i'm almost 32, and the healing process is slowed down to a snail's pace. in an effort to make my bike less thrashable, i removed 4 pegs and my rear brake and put on my tallest bars/stem combo. it didn't help me take it easy, i went apeshit on a mellow bank after some 360 fakie sliders turned into 450s which turned into a couple sketchy 540 nosedives to flat. i almost never fuck with brakeless riding, my finger is always on the lever for manuals and hops and damn near everything and it's something i thought i couldn't overcome. so now i think the pegs and eventually the brake will go back on and i'll try to only pull the lever for fufanus and maybe sparing scooter kids lives occasionally, and i'll just lock my bike up in the garage and make my wife keep the bikelock key for a couple weeks while i take it easy and try to get in to see a doctor about my injuries.
in "new parts" news i got some gum revenge industries customer friendly grips and they're the answer to my sweaty hands that have been blowing off my worn-in edwins lately. i also got a 25t fit keyguard for when my ankle can tolerate relearning sprocket chunk barspin fakies on this bank to skinny ledge subbox spot.
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Inactivity is the worst thing you can do (for your back particularly). Go see a physio and get some advice on exercise and stretches that will help you keep shredding.
:)
G.
meathead:
today i looked at my bike and considered fixing the flat tyre ive had for a couple weeks ... but am yet to fix it , maybe tomorrow?
GUMP_:
Tried to true my wheels again. Made up a Frankenstein collapse chain
CHROME_RIMS_YO:
--- Quote from: Trap Miguel on January 26, 2015, 09:50:56 AM ---Holla!
You've been riding like a beast lately. Sometime in the future i need to take some time to cone out and shred with you.
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haha thank you good sir. yeah i miss riding with you too, it'd be really good to meet up sometime. i'm thinking amtrak might be a good option to keep it simple, meet up in LA or i'd go from LA eastward and probably get out somewhere near you. or if you ever want to come all the way here i have a spare bedroom all set up.
and G: thanks for the input on getting some help with my back. i feel like it's something that could improve, not sure about my ankle though haha. might just go to the Ankle Depot and pick up some spares. when i said i'd try to take it easy i meant no riding, but i'd still be stretching and working out and keeping active. it seems like if i just laid around in hopes of it healing it wouldn't be like actively trying to strengthen and stretch.
weedbix:
--- Quote from: GUMP_ on January 26, 2015, 11:19:16 PM ---Tried to true my wheels again. Made up a Frankenstein collapse chain
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Even after a couple of decades I still can't true a wheel for shit, when I build then I hand them off to my mate for tensioning/truing
I make up spare 510's out of the spare links from 3 previous complete chains every 4th chain or so. The joins will never be as robust as the factory's riveting but I rarely suffer failures as I change chains after about 3 months of regular riding (extending longer when more inactive, in this case probably a year) as I prefer the initial factory lube over a relube
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