Starting with Crocks

I'm into breaking stuff like bones and universal rules so a side car is in Ms Peel's future and hope I can kick er like the cartoon and have some cheese too.

It's been 8 days now since I sprained the ankle. Had a bad cold in the meantime, so didn't feel like riding, that's gone, been fighting the stink bugs in the house for the last week, ankle was feeling not bad so got it out today and carefully (one should never kick over the Norton carefully) kicked it over in heavy tennies, but with only one barrel, I had some anticipation, but it sprang to life for about 5 strokes and died because I was not giving it enough throttle. Took 2 more hits and ran. Got the oil back in the tank. I did keep the lever way back behind the arch, towards the heel.

Good thing is the ankle is still good, didn't hurt to kick, and I can go down the stairs fine now, but I'm thinking I'm going to put on my big insulated boots on to start it tomorrow for a ride, trouble is the holiday will probably mean a lot of traffic and I hate that, but the cold is gone and the weather is just to fine and supposed to rain Tuesday or Wed. I'll have to head north or west to keep away from the hordes. Hope I don't run into a swarm of stink bugs, I had some stink bug splat juice on the hood of the car today and noticed that it's like bird turd, it etches the paint.

Dave
69S

Glad the ankle is better! With a lot of bone/joint complaints that come from minor injuries, they respond to Little Bo Peep treatment: Leave them alone etc.etc. etc.....but some Advil for most people never hurts.

I'd vote for real boots this early in recovery not so much to protect foot directly, as you already found that not the issue, but for less jaw gritting neck tension on upper spinal cord subconsciously knowing what happened last time. Hope your trust in traffic pays off with only tennis shoe protection if bumped down.