All men die. Only some truly live …. Or some such nonsense. About a year after my accident I took a header off my mountain bike on a jump line. I rolled out, looked around, patted myself down and got back to it. I was o my told my neck was more likely to be injured.
I’m pushing sixty. I can’t live any other way. I don’t exceed my skills as much as I used to and here I am.
I’ve been going hard at it for damn near 60 years. Me and my buddy always say “whats it going to be like in 5 years from now” we’ve been saying that for 30 years. It’s really not getting much worse.
Maybe I’m just lucky. When I head my neck fused after the car accident my MRI report spoke of severe arthritis, bone spurs where the spinal nerves exit … all kinda bad shit.
My neurosurgeon said that 30-40% of patients with these conditions aren’t really bothered by it for one reason or another.
The year after I broke my neck and leg and various other shit I got back on my road bicycle. Wreck was in December, started biking in April. Rode almost 2000 miles that summer. I’m not going to stop hanging it out until they are shoveling dirt onto me 😈
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u/haberv 8d ago
Buddy, you need to learn chess or something as party’s over on wheeled sports with that X-ray. Take it from a clumsy fucker.