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Message: [QUOTE="mgorman, post: 255274, member: 18371"] All I can tell you is NOT what to do and that is ride right away. I thought I could after having a cast removed from my hand. At the bottom of a 40mph down hill in a strip mine I found out I couldn't squeeze the rear brake on my mountain bike hard enough to slow down for the 90º turn at the bottom. Needless to say I totaled the front forks when I was pitched over the bars after going over a bank and hitting a log 3' off the ground. I then proceeded to hit a tree with my right shoulder then bounced a while till I came to a stop. Nothing bodily broke, but I couldn't ride from pain for another two weeks. I ended up having to keep flexing it and working some strength back into it by sqeezing a rubber ball. [/QUOTE]