I sustained a foot injury which means I can’t drive or ride a bike. I normally bike with my daughter 4km to kindergarten.
Any ideas on modes of transport which would allow me to do this KG run?
Bloody martens!
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- Taxi?
- Ask wife nicely?
- Other kids with “Lernfahrausweis” in the family? (you can pull a hand break, right? Although they no longer exist the way I know them either, I read here somewhere)
- Neighbour/mother of Kindergartenfriend takes her along?
I’m looking for ways to stay independent. Only left foot is injured, so I guess I could still drive an automatic car. I guess if I had a wheelchair, I could wheel myself with my daughter on my lap.
Hand-propelled bike with a kiddie buggy
Bus
Tram
8km a day? I don’t think so.
Rent an automatic or try Mobility.
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I took some teenagers climbing once and one broke his foot in a fall.
It was a combination of teenager’s excessive weight, rope stretch, fall factor, length of fall and (small) distance from ground.
Anyway, the child had a plaster cast up to his knee and I met up with the father a few days later. I said it would be a hassle to drive him everywhere until the cast was removed but he said nonsense, he’d be riding to school with his bike from the next day - with his foot in the cast.
So there’s your answer - don’t be a wuss and cycle with your daughter to KG!
As to your predicament, I’m intrigued as to its cause - did you slip on ice, fall off when sledging or fall off your roof?
On this direction, ask local bike shops if they have something like this for rent. It’s a trike, so no balance issues.
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It’s one of those questions asked with not enough information.
The OP may have had their foot amputated for all we know, or just stubbed their toe (badly).
The solution would surely depend on both the severity of the injury and the probably duration of incapacity.
A couple of years back a couple of ex-pat kids were shuttled to/from their internal school by taxi. Apparently the school had made a fixed-price deal as one of their buses was broken. It won’t be cheap but you shouldn’t have tried tap-dancing on the trampoline!
Perhaps your accident insurance will help with the costs.
That thought also occurred to me, too. There is help available if you can’t do your usual daily tasks, such as shop for food or bathe, maybe a school run would count, too, especially with a young child going that kind of distance.
I found my answer. I can still drive. It’s painful to use the clutch, but it is doable.
Good on you. I assume no amputation then.
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Do you know how to change gears without the clutch? I used to do it a lot for fun (in older cars).
What?!
Basically:
Foot off the accelerator.
Push into neutral.
When RPMs drop a bit, shift into next gear.
I was once driving in the middle of the Australian outback in a hulk of a car - a 4.1L Ford Falcon and my gear stick literally sheared off.
I got back to civilisation that way.
Here’s a Youtube video on the skill:
Seems like a way for me to destroy the transmission 