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All you biker's

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megga

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If any one rides a motorbike and on insulin, do you run your bg levels differant?
Not sure if its just me but i like to be 8 or above before i ride as i dont trust the cold/excitment and adrenalin to mask the first signs of a hypo. in a car its normaly around 6 and i'm happy.
Am i alone with this???
 
Good question, I have only started insulin so been told by dn over7 is safe
 
I do tend to run slightly higher when on the bike, just got back into biking and keeps one on their toes looking for the idiots that want the bit of road your on, or oops did not see you mate moments.
 
HOBIE's a biker - wonde rwhat he does?

I only have experience of having hypos on the pillion meself! LOL

(Apparently it makes a bike a tad unstable when your wife's body is more or less parallel to the tarmac .....) (this definitely applies to Africa Twins, Triumph Trophys and Honda SuperBlackbirds, not sure if the same thing applies to other makes/models .....) :D
 
Made me smile T W. (Hope you where ok) On the subject of bg on a bike ? I did 4000mile in 10 days, 2 days on the ferry, & 2days in Asia. So really 4000mile in 6 days. Last year i went to Pamplona to run with the Bulls. (Went on bike). I love doing long trips. Allways keep bg a bit higher than norm. 🙂
 
Thinking about it, I think after the spate of hypos ( I was on Humulin I and S at the time, I was never right using that insulin) I aimed to be about 7 or 8 before starting a bike journey.

Later with Lantus/Novorapid, later still Levemir/Novo - I aimed for between 6 and 7, cos it was enough margin. That's roughly what I do when I drive the car, actually.
 
(this definitely applies to Africa Twins, Triumph Trophys and Honda SuperBlackbirds, not sure if the same thing applies to other makes/models .....) :D[/QUOTE]

Oh i had a Blackbird (or a balstic missile with wheels as i called it) had to sell it as i knew i would loose my licence or my life as i could no behave on it. 180mph was the most i did (and in the chance that plod reads this, it was in my back garden:D) Now got a diversion for nipping to work on and an FJR1300 for ride outs, and i behave now😉
 
trophywench said:
Thinking about it, I think after the spate of hypos ( I was on Humulin I and S at the time, I was never right using that insulin) I aimed to be about 7 or 8 before starting a bike journey.

Later with Lantus/Novorapid, later still Levemir/Novo - I aimed for between 6 and 7, cos it was enough margin. That's roughly what I do when I drive the car, actually.
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When i drive i am happy with my levels at 5 as i have good awarness, but its a confidance thing on the bike, and i would not drem of riding below 8, i know i would be ok at 5-6 but just wont.

Oh and tell your hubbie to get a Goldwing, that way he can strap you on for them hypos lol😱
 
Oh God, no! Even if he wanted one, I don't. We went on a rideout up the Snake Pass for Sunday lunch this once with someone we'd met who had a Wing. Turned out his wife didn't like twisty roads. I fell about laughing when they opened the side panniers to put their helmets away - opened with hydraulic rams !

Only managed 140 with 2 up, as we have a large back garden too, but dunno what himself has managed, when I haven't been there. In the garden.

I do know that at 140 my glasses vibrate at a different frequency to which my eyeballs and visor vibrate, and I don't like it very much though the rate at which the err, hedge and flower beds pass me by, doesn't bother me!
 
When we go two up on the bike, i have an anti speeding device, its a tap on the shoulder, followed by a good telling of, so i have to behave when she on the back.
Must admit, we are not wing fans either, although i did buy one many many moons ago, sold it very sharpish, its was the most boring thing i have ever riden, and that includes my 50cc's and 125cc,s from my learner days
 
Oh gosh - first husband passed his test on an Ariel Arrow and second husband on his 1961 Bonneville ! None of this 'low ccs at first' rubbish then!

:D
 
That means either they are very old or i'm a spring chicken lol
 
I don't tend to run mine any differently than I would whilst driving the car. In recent weeks the heat has affected my levels whilst been on the bike (won't wear just jeans and T shirt), so not been on it as much. If I'm on a long run I do find that the levels go up a little, as you're quite static and as such not using much energy, but I suppose that everyone is different in their metabolism etc.
 
megga said:
That means either they are very old or i'm a spring chicken lol
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And what pray, does that make me?









Yeah, yeah, true, Grumpy Old Woman ......




on the back of a sports bike !
 
Random question here: does anybody test before getting on a pushbike?
 
LeeLee said:
Random question here: does anybody test before getting on a pushbike?
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Im sure they will bring a law in that you have to test on a pushbike 🙄
Or maybe they have! 😱
It would not bloody surprise me :D
 
Well that's the trouble with bike riding altogether isn't it? No proper legislation !

I can't ride a bike, I keep trying but no, can't.

But there's absolutely nowt to stop me going out on the road on one, is there? Only my own fear.

As far as I am concerned, they ought to legislate bikes in a lot more ways than this.
 
trophywench said:
Well that's the trouble with bike riding altogether isn't it? No proper legislation !

I can't ride a bike, I keep trying but no, can't.

But there's absolutely nowt to stop me going out on the road on one, is there? Only my own fear.

As far as I am concerned, they ought to legislate bikes in a lot more ways than this.
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Indeed, maybe then they'd be less tempted to run red lights and knock over unsuspecting runners! 😡

I can't ride a bike either.
 
The only thing i think should be law with pushbikes is helmets. Years ago i saw paramedics fighting to save a young girls life whos head was smashed open after hitting her head on the curb. I and my son always use a helmet.
And we stop at lights🙂 infact the last cyclist i saw that went through a red light, was a policeman😱
 
megga said:
The only thing i think should be law with pushbikes is helmets. Years ago i saw paramedics fighting to save a young girls life whos head was smashed open after hitting her head on the curb. I and my son always use a helmet.
And we stop at lights🙂 infact the last cyclist i saw that went through a red light, was a policeman😱
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I hope the blue light on his helmet was flashing! :D
 
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