Crash #2

Sooooooooo.......just kidding, sorry GG!

The bike, and myself, made it home from my mates house, p1ssing it down with rain, thunder and all.

My wrist is now ****ing killing me, argh. It was a 4-5 min ride and I pulled the clucth in maybe 6 or 7 times.

Kept legs tight to bike, relaxed upper the whole way.

But the combination of inexperience (both riding and on this bike), the confidence knock of coming off, the wrist hurting, the rain, and concious I had no rear brake meant the journey was absolutely awful.

After a certain point I just seem to be unable to let the clutch out slowly enough to stop the bike lurching a bit, my wrist just gives.

I was so jerky and doing things I knew I shouldnt be doing, like coasting round corners, and stuff.

The can, although now ~4inches shorter, is quieter. Nothing else has been done to it....no bother, its perfect now dB wise. Loud enough to still sound nice but not too obnoxious.

Then spent the next 10 mins lifting my son on and off the bike as he was crazy excited...first time he's seen it. Then faffed about trying to get the bike cover on, all while its still raining.

SIGH

Looks like it'll be another 4-5 days before it'll be better enough. DAMMIT.

At least my baby is home now.

Peace.

[pookie]

Now go and get that ice pack / heat pack on your wrist

[gruntygiggles]

I had a proper heart stop jumpy thing then...you are a bad bad man!

PMSL funny though...good play

get a wrist support for a while

[Jayneflakes]

Support bandage or strap may help. On a long ride a while back, I had to use a support bandage on my right wrist and it stopped the pain right away.

Haha, probably jinxed myself now.

I don't think a wrist support will help, as my wrist isn't hurting from bending
... It's hurting from pulling the clutch with ma fingers

[yorkie_chris]

A wrist support may help or may delay it. Depends what's up with it, you don't want to give support at a cost of allowing all the minor muscles to weaken

Now the pain killers have kicked in all I want to do is get back on the bike...

Alas I'm already tucked up in bed and can't be arsed to gear up. Plus it's dark and wet

I seriously need to build confidence in cornering in the wet. I remember I used to be able to get silly lean on my ped, but on the sv I just feel like I'm going to come off.

Hoping it's dry tomorrow, I'll take the bike to the office in barnet. Seriously need more saddle time.

Mates want me to go Streetfighter Sunday in Wembly and right now I don't know if my confidence us going yo interfere and ruin the ride.

what you really need to do is man up

i bet rossi isn't whining about his hurty leg on the innernetz

Good effort mate. Take it slow and steady and you will get your confidence back up!