OK - I picked up my new wonderful 2010 Giant Suede DX with all my custom options yesterday, and got it home!

This morning when I weighed myself, I weighed 360, which is the weight I wanted to be before my knee surgery. So that is great!

I am taking my stop-smoking pill (that worked before) so I expect to quit before the surgery, so that's out of the way.

Now, today is Sunday, it's sunny, it's 55 degrees out, am not hurting too bad, and I sorta want to ride the bike, but to be honest am scared to do so?

I do not yet have the actual surgical date - just the pre-surgical "conference" (this is when they will set the date for the surgery) - on the 23rd of this month. So I feel like I am just waiting now...

I am afraid to get on the bike before the surgery, for fear of creating more pain - then I will start connecting the bike with pain... Bicycle = pain And I do not want that. I know this is all dumb! Simply start out slow, ride a bit close to home, ride easy...

I guess I want to hear how many think I should wait to ride at all until after the surgery, VS how many think I should start riding now as long as I take it easy? (yes, the knee will not be damaged any more than it already is, and the heart DR has approved any/all exercise)

Thoughts Please? Call me scared and Paranoid...