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[Susurration]

Evening late night lurkers .

 

[StrangeView]

Evening late night lurkers .

Good evening sir, and I hope all is well . First chance I've had to get on for a few days, but it's only a brief visit I'm afraid.

 

[Susurration]

Good evening sir, and I hope all is well . First chance I've had to get on for a few days, but it's only a brief visit I'm afraid.

Good evening to you too . All is well here. How about with you?

 

[Polranny]

Good Morning all.... too early in the morning to expect anyone else to be up

Will stick the kettle on anyway

A question for cyclists: anyone any experience of riders with an arthritic knee. Have tried and it hurts like fuck but maybe I am trying to blast along thinking I am in my 20's again rather than 'low gear & go'. Feel I should persists but advice welcomed

Oh....when I picked up milk for the tea, the fella in the shop said 'Newspaper, Nick?'...I replied..'I love you like a brother but you can shove 'em up your arse....if I want to hear bald-faced lies I will go to Dodgy Dave's Car Emporium'...he replied 'Fair enough, Beano & Dandy then?'....and that's what's by the kettle

I always aspired to be like Gnasher...

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Hi Nick,
Have you got any of Desperate Dan's cow pies left. I've just been over Angelica's and I'm famished, also a decaff coffee would be good.
As far as the knee is concerned a couple of solpadol and an elasticated knee bandage might help. I have rheumatoid rather than osteo so I may not be the best person to ask.

 

[Polranny]

Cow Pie washed down with decaf'?....you Cymraeg are a weird bunch indeed...at the very least it should be Cow Pie, a jug of gravy and a glass of Dandelion & Burdock

From when I ran, I am always concerned about taking pain-killers before any exertion - relief afterwards, fair enough

....bloody decaf'..... <shakes head>

Decaf not my beverage of choice, rheumatoid arthritis quacks suggest it may do less damage so I'm trying it for a while.
Rheumatoid means I'm in too much pain to even freewheel on a bike just now , what about tiger balm? Stay off voltarol.
Dandelion and burdock, yeah, and I get the 2d deposit on the bottle and will buy a sherbet dip with it.

 

[janeyl]

Decaf not my beverage of choice, rheumatoid arthritis quacks suggest it may do less damage so I'm trying it for a while.
Rheumatoid means I'm in too much pain to even freewheel on a bike just now , what about tiger balm? Stay off voltarol.
Dandelion and burdock, yeah, and I get the 2d deposit on the bottle and will buy a sherbet dip with it.

I have early osteo arthritic changes in my left knee so only really get pain after a long one. I followed someone's advice on here, lower gear higher cadence which helps. I also find warming up and stretching out afterwards makes a difference particularly quads and hip flexors. Funnily enough, tight hip flexors affects how you pedal. Get a bike fit if you're serious about trying to cycle any distance, how your bike is set up affects how you pedal and aligning your knees properly can make a difference. A friend of ours had terrible knee pain and his bike fit recommended shoe inserts, now he cycles pain free.

oh, and I do preload with anti inflammatories because they, you know, lessen inflammation...not enough to stop me feeling the pain of any damage but enough to keep me comfortable. Usually ibuprofen but not everyone can take it.

Funnily enough, getting a new car with a much lighter clutch made a huge difference for me, cold and having the Monkeys big old bus in the winter really causes me problems sometimes

 

[Polranny]

Thank you, Janey...your advice is greatly appreciated especially about the bike fit which - once someone mentions it - makes perfect sense but would have not thought about that.

Ibuprofen: used to use it regularly (especially when I played a lot of golf) then I had a very rapid allergic reaction to it so it's paracetamol for me.

My knee injury started when I was 20 and, since then, I have abused it well...I think I have had my money's worth out of it! Rugby had to be sidelined, squash was my mainstay for many years then road-running and win my knee couldn't take that any more, golf. I just think that (all round) maybe cycling will give me better exercise....I miss sport!

Thanks again

Cycling probably fits the bill unless you swim. I gave up rugby at 16, match against Millfield, marking a scrum half who I couldn't nail all match, turned out to be Gareth Edwards. I then took to hockey ( field, for the benefit of any yanks) hung up my boots at 50, turned to coaching mini and youth rugby, now all the broken fingers tell me i should have given up hockey much earlier.. nowadays i bask in the glory of my son's sporting achievement and will probably be coaching mini rugby grandchildren when asked.

 

[Deprived_in_AZ]

Missing the Bonnie already

 

[LucyCanyon]

I have early osteo arthritic changes in my left knee so only really get pain after a long one. I followed someone's advice on here, lower gear higher cadence which helps. I also find warming up and stretching out afterwards makes a difference particularly quads and hip flexors. Funnily enough, tight hip flexors affects how you pedal. Get a bike fit if you're serious about trying to cycle any distance, how your bike is set up affects how you pedal and aligning your knees properly can make a difference. A friend of ours had terrible knee pain and his bike fit recommended shoe inserts, now he cycles pain free.

oh, and I do preload with anti inflammatories because they, you know, lessen inflammation...not enough to stop me feeling the pain of any damage but enough to keep me comfortable. Usually ibuprofen but not everyone can take it.

Funnily enough, getting a new car with a much lighter clutch made a huge difference for me, cold and having the Monkeys big old bus in the winter really causes me problems sometimes

I am going to keep a copy of this post... a real collectors item! Janey advising on cycling, after initially chiding me about all my trips when I first popped into the forums!!

Good advice indeed, even playing with the seat height and position of the saddle - which can slide forwards and backwards and tilt - can make a massive difference. Tilting the handlebars slightly upwards to change the lean forward etc... all worth playing with.

As for cars, a friend of mine almost immediately got relief from a bad back when he went to automatic and didn't have to press and change gear!

Nice day on the Northumberland coast today but not quite shorts weather, a 12 mile ride left to the station and then some more at the other end, got to keep exercising!

 

[LucyCanyon]

Missing the Bonnie already

And the Bonnie.. and the rest.. is missing you

 

[Susurration]

Evening everyone .

 

[LucyCanyon]

Morning all, back to work with a bump and a wet ride to the station... hope your shorter week is fantastic wherever you may be spending it! Lx

 

[LucyCanyon]

Holiday week? Trust all you lurkers and pervy people are having more fun than I am...

 

[StrangeView]

Holiday week? Trust all you lurkers and pervy people are having more fun than I am...

Yaawwwwwnn! Morning Lucy

More fun? Probably not

 

[LucyCanyon]

Yaawwwwwnn! Morning Lucy

More fun? Probably not

That is sad and worrying... because the fun level here is pretty low!!

 

[StrangeView]

That is sad and worrying... because the fun level here is pretty low!!

System here is taking 20 mins to do anything today, boring and frustrating both at the same time

 

[Susurration]

Evening everyone .

 

[LucyCanyon]

Evening everyone .

Morning Sus, morning all, a quiet week all round it seems, hope you all have a scandalous weekend and return to work on Monday for a rest..

 

[butters]

*waves*

any of you lot make a trump protest? c'mon, surely some of you...

damn, wish i'd been in london still.

 

[TheSilverLining]

*waves*

any of you lot make a trump protest? c'mon, surely some of you...

damn, wish i'd been in london still.

Hullo, Chippy!
I’m in the north, innit!

 

[TheSilverLining]

However, I did stumble across something on another social media-type platform that read along the lines of a very witty satire. Sadly, 5 minutes in I realised that these people were genuinely welcoming the tangerine wankmaggot to our country.

*

 

[LucyCanyon]

However, I did stumble across something on another social media-type platform that read along the lines of a very witty satire. Sadly, 5 minutes in I realised that these people were genuinely welcoming the tangerine wankmaggot to our country.

*

Apparently there are some people who think he is sane, sensible and we should have a leader like him here..

Weird, eh??

Morning TSL, morning all, another trip but northward towards Glasgow today!!

 

[expertlinguist]

Apparently there are some people who think he is sane, sensible and we should have a leader like him here..

Weird, eh??

Morning TSL, morning all, another trip but northward towards Glasgow today!!

Boris Johnson come to mind

 

[LucyCanyon]

Boris Johnson come to mind

I am not sure whether to laugh or cry...

Morning all, dry in Glasgow

 

[StrangeView]

Morning campers!!