Topic: 500/550/650's that followed me home

[RAFster122s]

RB glad you have gotten out in the shop.

Keep up with therapy and exercises...

[rb550four]

  Yes, it is soo nice to touch Honda metal again.
The PT is over for me now so it's bicycling ,walking up and down stairs, and lift up tings up an put dem down. Making ready to find out what my new limits are. Needing to get back to building even though I'm now a one man show, but it 's time to pay some bills and no matter how much I like working on bikes (it has always been my favorite thing to do),I haven't found it  a steady way to make a living ... as so many of you already know for yourself too.
  It's time for me to get out of this house and get to the shop right now and have some fun, cause as you know , it's all fun and games.

[grcamna2]

  Yes, it is soo nice to touch Honda metal again.
The PT is over for me now so it's bicycling ,walking up and down stairs, and lift up tings up an put dem down. Making ready to find out what my new limits are. Needing to get back to building even though I'm now a one man show, but it 's time to pay some bills and no matter how much I like working on bikes (it has always been my favorite thing to do),I haven't found it  a steady way to make a living ... as so many of you already know for yourself too.
  It's time for me to get out of this house and get to the shop right now and have some fun, cause as you know , it's all fun and games.

All the best to you rb,pace yourself.

[rb550four]

   So I've ben pacing myself, trying not to overdo physical activities. Have found more limitations than I expected.
But I have managed to work  the shifter, so I can ride. I try to ride motorcycles every day that I can now.  I ride bicycles at least a mile every day just to stay limber.  It isn't as easy as it was to get a leg over either seat anymore so ,when given the a choice , I like my 2 wheels with an engine.
   A friend of mine picked up a new Triumph 1000 ish , an nice machine , fits smaller riders comfortably , and has enough power to keep him smiling every time he s on it.  He has an older large Suzuki with bags that is now in the shed. He had a 71 cl 350 survivor project parked in his living room for years just waiting to be awoken. Didn 't happen for the usual reasons, and he needs the indoor space to winter the Triumph, so he asked if I would take it  and give it a good home.
  WE ALL KNOW THAT WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER ONE.
 Yeah, right! So I have been tinkering with that little bike every chance I can get.
 I bought my first used cl 350 from the Honda Shop when I was 16, sure would like to be 16 again , but the best I can hope for is to ride it . Just cleaning this one up a  bit , fixing what's warn, doing the maintenance list. It only has 3200 miles on it.

[RAFster122s]

Hope the little 350 cleanup and restores to it former glory after some running and things settle out... The 350 and 360 motors had much tighter clearances needed to run well and deliver good performance, as meager as it was... Glad it is giving you some joy. Keep up with the strengthening exercises to maintain the progress and keep your new range of motion. I had a shoulder injury back in 2010 and it healed wrong, I had some adhesions and had lost range of movements and the orthopedic doctor I had seen for it should never have taken the case as he wasn't a shoulder specialist. Too arrogant to admit it as well, shoulder needed surgery but he kept claiming that the instruments weren't big enough, table limits etc. I'm broad shouldered and used to lift way too much weight, etc...so I'm built much like a linebacker. Well, I had a slip when starting down the steps in my apartment and was about to fall down the stairs face forward and I reached back to catch the handrail underhanded. I did and got a burning tear in the shoulder briefly. It was enough to tear loose the adhesion that had reduced my ROM and after that I was able to do the sword like drawing exercises I was unable to do. The Physical therapist was happy as was I