Since an accident last week, I’ve been unable to stand on my leg. It makes it pretty inconvenient for travelling around. With one leg, you can’t really walk or drive. Cycling is OK going downhill, but pretty difficult on any incline. Fortunately, in New York, I have some clipless pedals on my bike. With a clipless pedal, you can pretty much get anywhere on one leg and has made it very good for getting around. The bike is pretty adaptable and often the best way for getting around an urban environment. It’s only a shame I don’t have SPD pedals. With look pedals you have to carry around a shoe and change when you get off bike.
My 1983 Trek, New York looking pretty nice and clipless pedal.
‘Aye, Captain, that’s the old peg leg, I’m pulling along.’
The only problem with clipless pedals and one legged cycling in New York is that drivers are impatient at the best of times. When they have to crawl at 5mph, because someone is cycling with one leg, they have great difficulty coping.
With a lowest gear of 42*21, it can be challenging getting up certain climbs. It is the first time in many years, I have had to get off and push because the hill was too steep. There’s probably a lesson in humility somewhere there.
It is pretty frustrating to be laid up, when you’ve spent all winter getting very fit. The weather here has been ideal for cycling, but I shall just have to see how long the recovery process takes. But, for now the bike and the clipless pedal is a great saviour for a bit of movement.
The old war wound. – My scar is bigger than your scar kind of thing. I would be tempted to use the word narcissist, but I don’t know what it means or how to spell it. That is not actually the problem, but, a calf tear which seemed to develop a couple of days later – strange.
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