[Grampa Dave]

I had to give up my mountain bike a few years ago. My chain slipped as I came into our driveway and hit the lip between the driveway and the street.

So I was being flipped head first over the handbars, and I stopped my flip and came down without a fall with a sudden stop. The sudden stop tore my bicep head and retore my rotator cuff. The pain was so bad I thought that I was having a heart attack, and then I realized the pain was in my right shoulder and behind my right shoulder.

We left for Oregon the next day, and I was a miserable old dog for the whole trip. No fly Casting or real hikes. I couldn’t sleep at night.

When we got home my wife told me to see my doctor or she would divorce me. When I described the accident and the pain, he touched me on the bicep head. It took him and the nurse to scrape me off the ceiling.

Amazingly enough, I recovered fairly well in a couple of months. The only aftermath was no more bike riding nor casting a single hand fly rod. So I gave up the bike and moved on to the 2 handed Spey rods.

[grey_whiskers]

I am deeply sorry. A co-worker of mine had an interesting related event -- her husband-to-be broke his wrist two days before the wedding and an "active adventure" honeymoon in New Zealand. Somehow I think she found ways to compensate ;-)

Would the doc and wife allow a stationary bike, or a real bike with a mechanism to hold the rear wheel off the ground?

Cheers!