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I am at that point where I still -- just barely -- benefit from a hospital bed, but I'm also -- just barely -- able to ride. I did kind of prank my wife. When she came home, as expected, she asked, "What is the bike doing there?" My answer: "She was hungry, I'm feeding her." At which point...

I am now feeling your pain on this in a way I wasn't before. The Grizl Large fits me like a glove, though since my medical catastrophe, for the first time I feel like the bars are too low. (And yes, on the large Grizl, the standover is acceptable, but just barely.) The Grizl will take some...

Second ride post catastrophe. Three miles this time (increased from 2.6), 282 feet of vertical (instead of 80 something), 73 watts (increased from 59) and 20 minutes (increased from 17.) Did not use turbo, about 55% motor off completely. I can now walk three miles in a day (in three or four...

My Honda CRX-- with chains-- was a snowmobile. I once drove right off the road and into a snowbank when I thought a gap in the piles of snow by the side of the road was a driveway. I just put it in reverse and drove out. With all season radials, it had no problem when Google Maps sent me up a...

A very American phenomenon, I think, perhaps? Collecting is weird; I try to avoid the conspicuous consumption stereotype, but I still collect guitars and affordable wristwatches-- even if I use most of them, it's still a guilty pleasure, not something I'm proud of. There are exceptions-- times...

You never know, right? Before the tariffs, I bought a lot of Chinese wristwatches-- including some chronographs with ST19 mechanical movements. These are widely reviled among snobby horologists (I hang out with the 'affordables' crew!) and spoken of as 'disposable.' They cost between...

What I feared was the usual stuff-- screaming out the name of a woman who was not my wife, etc. No white light, no partner, no dog. Later, when I was on lots of Dilaudid, I did have delusional dreams where I would sneak home and walk the dogs, yes-- and I also rode the Grizl in a delusional...

I think you are on the right track with this. And thank you for your kind thoughts. Means a lot. Dang, I feel pretty good this morning, I have to say! A little gut pain and pain around the incision the first half hour I was awake. Now almost normal. That's encouraging. The state of...

Kinda. What the surgeon said was, "A lot of guys who actually survive long enough to be released after what happened to you die about 10 days later because they won't push through the exhaustion. Or, they just do the minimum for PT because let's face it, it's really uncomfortable. You are...

I would love to have that level of specificity in guidance. I have sent out some emails, but Imay email my old physical therapist; she's covered by insurance and might give me some guidance. What I had was sudden cardiac arrest due to blood loss. So in some ways, that's better-- I didn't have...

I have no throttle, but yeah, I'm using a lot more assistance than usual! My watts used was 59, calories burned was 50. Before cardiac arrest, that same 2.5 miles (but with more hills) was 98 watts and 71 calories. I'm supposed to push hard to speed up my recovery, but it's hard to know how...

Just getting the bike out of the garage and pumping up the tires (with an electric pump) was so exhausting I literally had to take a nap. A lot of dark thoughts passed through my head. And I let them pass... I only lasted 17 minutes, 2.5 miles (just up and down the street) and 85 feet of...

Whoa... Just looked it up. OPMD is pretty obscure, though it shouldn't be. I was lead writer on the New York MDA Jerry Lewis Telethon for 10 years. (I'm not credited anywhere, fortunately, except in the credit roll at the end of the show.) We should have done a spot on it. We did spots on...

Early in the pando, as someone with a lot of risk factors, and before we knew whether the virus was transmitted outdoors (and if so, under what circumstances) I added an N95 level full face mask to my normal getup, which was motocross armor, helmet, and insectoid sunglasses, sometimes with...

Oh, hell yeah. (When I was healthy. I'll be off the bike for at least another couple of weeks, probably, maybe longer.) For whatever reason, my Class III seems to cut out at just over 29 MPH, (could be GPS error, as Stomp and a few others pointed out) so there are flat (as far as I can tell)...

Thank you for sharing your wife's story; I can't (and don't intend to) offer any medical advice, though I can offer my own experience, hope, and encouragement. I hope she has a speedy recovery, and IMHO, you are a total badass for supporting her in the way that you do. They wanted to fit me...

Weirdly, I embraced bike helmets before ski helmets. What find me cross over from the dark side was, oddly, a random younger cat I met on the lift at Baldy here in So. Cal. I was in my mid 50s-- I thought I was old, probably-- and it was a good day, good conditions, I was skiing very well on...

Very kind of you to ask, friend! I saw you ask the community in a different thread. You were right to be concerned. The short answer: I died. I had a serious medical issue, (my heart stopped for ten minutes) and I was in the ICU for six weeks! I just got home 17 days ago, but even so, I was...

Exactly. They are happy to service my Canyon when needed, though they are over seven miles away and across a major freeway. For same-day service (like installing the wireless remote for the motor) there is a shop that is closer-- more of a specialty eMTB LBS-- that was happy to do the job...

It is strange how modern e-bike weight, torque, power delivery and gear choices interact; it just produces some unexpected situations. There is one ascent at the end of a steep hill-- it's probably only 10%-- on my shortest fitness ride that is a totally different experience on the 50 nm 36...