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Nine weeks since my knee injury

Welp, it's nine weeks since I ripped my knee open while riding my bike on the way home from work in Chicago. I spent 3 of those weeks off my bike and recuperating. I also took two trips in the first two weeks after the crash, to Boston and San Francisco. That was by far the most difficult thing about the injury as my knee would begin to stiffen up and hurt if I spent more than 20-30 minutes standing around--lets not even talk about getting my knee to bend into an appropriate position for coach seats! When I first ...

Biking injury: one cut knee

First I should say that I am absolutely fine and the only injury I've sustained here is this big cut on my knee. I'm sorry if you've come to my site and seen the photos of cuts and x-rays and didn't know what was going on! No broken bones, no ligament/tendon damage, just a big nasty cut. So here's the low down, if you want full details, IM me or email: I was riding in a narrow gap between parked cars and moving cars on the left (aka. what passes for a bike lane on some streets, Milwaukee to be ...

Posted on: 2008 May 22

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