Didn't quite make that, didja?

A new Cervelo

What's this? Pcaddy is riding again? This calls for a cheer. BOO-RAY!!!

Nobody needs a new Cervelo.

Good point -- it's an outright liability.

That explains why you're recognized as Pope around here.

Oh?

I have one old Cervelo, my c. 2008/9 P3 TT bike, that's plenty.

I never said which day.

Not riding, but I did haul out the mag trainer from the crawlspace. Tomorrow AM I will set up the Addict road bike on it and then I'll spend 20-30 mins daily on it, first rocking back and forth until I can get the knee around the full circle and then spinning with as little resistance as smoothly as I can. I really think if I can do that for 10 days straight it will loosen up my knee to the point where maybe I can actually ride the bicycle. I can get the knee around that motion, but it took 5 minutes of rocking it and pushing it and then forcing it around the top backwards, then eventually it loosed up to where I could rotate the crank reasonably smooth. That really surprised me today, didn't think it would be happen this soon at all. I thought it would take another 7-10 days to get to where I found myself today on that training bike @ physical therapy.

So are you installing a Bionx or the Copenhagen wheel to help you climb Mt. Doom ?

I've heard they are installing a stairlift on Mt Doom:

You're saying there's a chance we make it?

Oh yes.

I have seen it.

So what's involved in a TKR? I broke my leg in May and required surgery, 2 Titanium plates and 16 screws and the surgeon said I'd need a TKR in 5-10 years due to the break. Just rode my first time a few days ago. Still can't walk though. Bought a Moots as a dull grey carrot to get me back out there sooner. It worked.

With a concerted effort from the therapy gals, maybe they can help you get it up to allow you to rotate yourself to get you spinning again.

Quite a picture Pcad. Wow. Can you explain why you needed a knee replacement before you turned 60? Too much cycling? Injury? Bad genetics? ;)
Thousands riding with their knees replaced and best of luck in your recovery.

I like your thinking on this FLvector. Maybe there's a Happy Ending in this story after all.

We're taking Cody today for a dog training session. Good timing, he surfed the kitchen counter and ate another note pad today.

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Knee scope after an ACL rupture 1986 @ age 28. ACL reconstruction after a motorcycle crash 1989. The knee then subsequently tolerated about 200K miles of road cycling, started getting arthritic about 5 years ago. Synvisc injections kept me going until this year, but when they stopped working it was TKR time. Hey, my knee surgeon told me @ age 31 that I had one of the worst knees he had ever seen (after the ACL reconstruction) and largely thanks to cycling, which is mostly therapeutic, it still lasted another 25 years, which is amazing to me. But he said at some point as the arthritis develops, the cycling stops being as helpful and the knee just wears out when there's no cartilage left in there. I'm confident I'll be MUCH better off once this right knee TKR rehabs and heals up. No more knee problems after this. My left knee has never had any problems whatsoever.

My surgeon told me I'm doing better than 90% of his patients who tend to be older, fatter, less fit than me. So there are advantages to having this procedure when you're 56 instead of 70. Hey, my neighbor the fatso cop just had his TKR earlier this hear, he's only 45. He was telling me how great his range of motion was, yada yada, then the other day he says he tried riding his road bike and his knee was bothering him. Not surprising. You use it or lose it, and I'll be riding daily as soon as possible, so I don't anticipate having those issues.

An interesting time line for sure. Pretty good that we all have this technology to draw upon now and just a few short years ago this wasn't available with nearly the capability available now. I ride with two guys who have had hip replacement...one of whom was a competitive sub 3 hour marathon runner. As you know replacing a hip is even more complex. No doubt you should be pain free moving forward.
I believe George W who is an avid mountain biker who rides a lot with war amputees just went through knee replacement.
Heal fast.

I know 50+ guys who resumed bicycle racing post-TKR, so I'm psyched to get back on the bike. TKRs became real reliable over 20 years ago and they have only improved since then. The weak points were always the prosthesis loosening up over time (from jogging, lateral stress, etc., the glue breaks down) or the plastic bushing that serves as the cartilage wearing out. The latter is solved, the plastic in my TKR is impregnated with some vitamin E compound and the wear curve on that stuff looks like synthetic oil, it simply never wears out. So the final weak link is the medical adhesive they use to cement the joints in place, if they get that stronger you may see TKR replacements instead of ligament reconstructions and knee scopes in 10 years, because an artificial knee is in many ways injury proof (nothing to tear). Anyway, the TKRs are sort of promised to last 15+ years, but the ones from 20 years ago already often last 20+ years and the ones they do now are significantly better. There's a chance this bionic knee of mine may never require further intervention.