This year I ride my trials bike at least 10 times a month at64 that is my mental and physical workout plus I don't have to practice for events !
Basically This. ^^^^^^
I am 65 now and i had a worn out right knee and arthritic right hip for around ten years. Then in may of 2021 i had a minor stroke which hit .. you guessed it my whole right side.
It was only a minor stroke thankfully and my post stroke blurred vision was back to normal in under a fortnight and i got given the all clear to drive.
A huge difference from the first night they let me out of hospital and a literally crawled up the stairs using my left side dragging my at that time close to non functioning right side up a step at a time.
It was warm that night and the effort had left me sweating profusely, but i crawled into the bathroom pulled myself up to my feet in the shower and managed to sort myself out.
I Did not want the sons or my wife to help me, i am not 100% sure why i felt like this probably sheer bloody mindedness but i made it to bed that night upstairs and unassisted.
This set the routine for the foreseeable, and i went on and on getting feel and function back gradually and was riding my Kawasaki Vulcan EN500 Bobber (Super Low seat) in just a few weeks and although i have lost some right side strength i am in recovery and will be for possibly another two or three years yet.
I spend as much time as i can spare on the 2003 sherco 125 its capable and i have always liked it even when the kids used it all the time as youngsters when they went 250s i kept the sherco 125 its a family pet i suppose now.
Riding trials bikes as helped me in so many ways recently and indeed looking back throughout my life.
The kids always have had 20 & 26 inch wheeled trials bicycles, and some years ago i put together a trials cycle bassed around a 20 inch ONZA T pro frame. Now getting on that was believe it or not quite scary the first few seconds i was not sure i could cordinate the pedaling or if my knee wuld cause issues, but in a few yards i ws fine and about the only time i feel pain is stepping off wile the bike is moving it jars my knee a lot and hurts too.
Resperation wise i am ok my blood sugar levels are again fine ditto blood pressure all ok . I get both physical and mental stimulation from trials bikes generaly and i am so glad i have recovered well enough to ride again, its bad enough living with the issues the stroke left me with but thats the key word LIVING i am alive riding bikes shooting and fishing what is not to love about that. Life is good and no matter how big a black hole a person is looking into, life sure as hell beats being dead anytime. My moto is an old term, "Better to burn out than rust".
