Kluge
05-17-2008, 05:19 PM
I am shirking other chores so I might as well ask this question:
How much effort do you consider ordinary typical riding?
My hernia surgeon has told me not to lift more than 20 pounds for 8 to 12 weeks after the surgery. This isn't just because the strain could rip the stitches out & make me bleed, but also because the surgery was to sew stuff together that gets torn up when the body is strained.
He's not a rider even though his office is 2 buildings up from the Harley dealer. He said I could ride 2 weeks after the surgery.
So I have a 650 pound Boulevard that y'all know is pretty close to a clone of a softail.
I bought a fish scale and measured:
10 pounds to straighten the handlebars from parked position.
15 pounds to level the bike off the kickstand.
It's not hard to figure the sine of the lean angle times the weight of the bike is the force required to hold it up if you stop the turn without leveling first. That's 70% of 650 or somewhere on the high side of 450 pounds at 45 degrees.
I only had to pull anything like that once, a sharp turn at low speed off a street into a driveway that a car suddenly pulled out of. I stopped in a lean, applied muscle and was wondering if the bike was going to level or go down. It slowly leveled but it was dang heavy. I have no plans to do that again regardless of health.
My cruiser sometimes strains me in nearly stopped turns when I am doing the duck-walk and my right leg gets behind me and has to hold some weight at the same time. I've felt strain in almost the same spot as needed surgery, sort of, I can't remember it well (it almost hurt so I try to avoid it, of course). I don't know if a sport bike riding position would avoid that type of strain, I can only imagine my weight wrongly causing pain in a different place with one of those.
How many pounds do you think I'd have to exert for ordinary careful riding?
Should I just sit out the first half of the summer? 8 weeks is 6/24/08, 10 weeks is 7/8/08.
How many pounds is normal?
(6-g turns while riding like Tony Hawk are not included)
How much effort do you consider ordinary typical riding?
My hernia surgeon has told me not to lift more than 20 pounds for 8 to 12 weeks after the surgery. This isn't just because the strain could rip the stitches out & make me bleed, but also because the surgery was to sew stuff together that gets torn up when the body is strained.
He's not a rider even though his office is 2 buildings up from the Harley dealer. He said I could ride 2 weeks after the surgery.
So I have a 650 pound Boulevard that y'all know is pretty close to a clone of a softail.
I bought a fish scale and measured:
10 pounds to straighten the handlebars from parked position.
15 pounds to level the bike off the kickstand.
It's not hard to figure the sine of the lean angle times the weight of the bike is the force required to hold it up if you stop the turn without leveling first. That's 70% of 650 or somewhere on the high side of 450 pounds at 45 degrees.
I only had to pull anything like that once, a sharp turn at low speed off a street into a driveway that a car suddenly pulled out of. I stopped in a lean, applied muscle and was wondering if the bike was going to level or go down. It slowly leveled but it was dang heavy. I have no plans to do that again regardless of health.
My cruiser sometimes strains me in nearly stopped turns when I am doing the duck-walk and my right leg gets behind me and has to hold some weight at the same time. I've felt strain in almost the same spot as needed surgery, sort of, I can't remember it well (it almost hurt so I try to avoid it, of course). I don't know if a sport bike riding position would avoid that type of strain, I can only imagine my weight wrongly causing pain in a different place with one of those.
How many pounds do you think I'd have to exert for ordinary careful riding?
Should I just sit out the first half of the summer? 8 weeks is 6/24/08, 10 weeks is 7/8/08.
How many pounds is normal?
(6-g turns while riding like Tony Hawk are not included)