{"id":12198,"date":"2024-06-17T12:12:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=12198"},"modified":"2024-06-15T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T18:13:41","slug":"monkey-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/monkey-butt\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Butt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A switchback on the road up Pikes Peak.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

I hadn’t been on a bike recently because about 10 days ago I had minor surgery that makes it very uncomfortable for me to sit down for too long. But I’m planning on doing a four-day RMMRC ride in a bit less than two weeks so I was feeling a bit uncertain. Figured I’d better go for a ride.<\/p>\n

I plan to ride the V-Strom so that was the bike I went out on. I was figuring it has a nice broad, flat seat so maybe that will be OK. Well, I got about two blocks and was already uncomfortable. Not a good sign.<\/p>\n

So I wanted to see, would the discomfort get worse, diminish, or what, and how quickly? I checked my watch before I left.<\/p>\n

Certainly I did not want to go a long way away and find myself in pain and have a long way to return, so I headed out, went a ways, and made a right turn. Now just go straight until I’m feeling like I ought to do another right turn. One more right turn after that and I would be home.<\/p>\n

The good news is that the discomfort did not increase. The not so good news is that it did not diminish either. And hitting bumps was not more uncomfortable as I thought it might be. It was just a stable level of discomfort, but I have the strong suspicion that if I were to do that all day it would get a lot worse and then maybe I wouldn’t even be able to walk the next day.<\/p>\n

OK, that answered my question. And I was only out for 35 minutes. Now, I still have 10 days before we leave. Surely I’ll be feeling a lot better by then, right? I mean, heck, I did three weeks straight on the Concours just two months after having heart surgery. This will pass, won’t it?<\/p>\n

It better. I’m set up to share motel rooms with Alberto on this ride and I don’t want to leave him holding the bag paying in full for rooms he had expected to split. But if we were leaving tomorrow and I was feeling like I do today there’s no way I’d be going. We all know about monkey butt. Well, this is monkey butt to the max. It’s got to be better in 10 days.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

They say treat yourself right, so I bought myself a motorcycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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