Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Well, I just took it out for a ride ....

[TP]

... and I am so happy I own such a fantastic machine!!

It's been over 2 months since I've been on a bike so I didn't go far, probably 20 miles in total. One stretch of 'private testing road' allowed me to get her up to 110 and see how the shoulder performed in a hard braking from speed situation. Well, I stopped, but the bumps hurt.

I could get my jacket on ok, but I couldn't get it off by myself, and after the 20 miles of riding my shoulder is a bit sore and all I could feel was it clicking a lot.

With two weeks to go before TA3 I may become a mobile chicane in the slow group! and maybe only every second session. It was definitely a sobering experience taking it out today and realising just how far I have to go before the shoulder has any real strength - I lost over 1kg of muscle mass there I need to remind myself.

On the positive, it feels SO good to be riding it again, I've got a cross between a grin and a grimace on my face at the moment!! Two weeks of intensive physio for strength coming up methinks - yeah I know, don't overdo it etc etc ...

Ciao for niao ..

TP

[kwikbitch]

Keep your chin up TP...

Glad you enjoyed it...But don't overdo it!

Lisax

[Fordie]

Aldermarston Laser Weapons Research Centre as a target (sorry) 4D

[lizzie]

If the guy you are talking about is Brian Simpson in Ipswich then my bruv-in-law recommends him highly - he was OK to race only two weeks after breaking his collarbone in two places at Brands a couple of months ago after two sessions on the same day at £60 a time (except his bike died in practice). But isn't he mainly about sorting broken bones rather than muscle/tissue injury?

Anyway, the website is http://www.physioclinic.net/

[andyb]

Well done mate.... t/a 3 is the place for you. You can stick with me if you like, old cripples together!!

[Ozz]

Well done TP. The first steps are the hardest!

[748mart]

Well done Tony, good to hear it's healing up.

Probably best we stick together in the slow group to reduce the chicanes from 2 to 1.

Martin.

[fatduke11111]

Good stuff Tp.....the 'it's-good-to-be-back' feeling is a warm one.