O Yeah! What Jenn said. I had surgery 11/18/05 I think was 2 months before I got on mine.. and its a big old heavy Roadstar so I had to be SURE I was ready... I was just gonna go for a "spin" in the "hood" but before I knew it... poof I was GONE!! Go back to older posts on this forum you will see my first "post op" gleeful post of riding... Best of luck and lots of prayers on your surgery ... You will be much happier on the Losers side...

Robert; I would plan to be off your bike for 4-6 weeks. The muscles you use for balance and to hold your bike up at stop lights and such will be tender and you don't want to cause a hernia. Plus, on your bike, you never know when you're going to have to make a quick move and you don't want to not be able to because you're still tender. Blessings, Jennifer 253 / 173 / 137

Bren: I had to chime in here with the other girls. They Ride their bikes and I am just learning to ride ours. But I am a daily rider behind my DH. We have had our bike 2 years and before surgery I wanted to ride so bad. I had an episode of fear, palpations, hyperventilation just trying to get my almost 300 # self on there last year. It ended up me in crying, and ashamed and taking it out on him. He rode in the Rot Rally here, last year and I was in the truck..... a very unhappy person, and not wanting to even be at the rally, because of my weight and my unhappiness even though I was happy to be there. I just longed for more.... About 3 months ago, he asked me to ride, and I was terrified of the vision in my head of the 300# day. But I said okay, and put my jeans and boots on and went out side, took a deep breath and said a prayer and hopped my shrinking butt on the back... Well let me tell you, 103 pounds later, you can't get my butt of the back of that bike, and I have the fever really bad to have my own.....It is the best thing I did that day. The girls are right you have to become one with your DH. Lean with him, and roll with the flow. We ride almost every evening and in fact just got home from a ride now. It has brought us so much closer... I wish you the best of luck...and Bren.. it is so fun to buy clothes now, and biker attire, and oh.... I am loving it...and I k now you will too....

Bren please come back and let us know how you did .. I know you will LOVE it!!

Bren; Angel said it all - RELAX! I spent 3 years riding on the back on my husband's bike before I got my own. Believe me, as you continue to lose, you'll enjoy it even more! Blessings, Jennifer 253 / 175 / 137