We have the daily ride thread, why not the daily crash thread? :D
I'll do the honors -
OUCH! ROAD RASH!
My ego is more bruised up than my hand (forgot the gloves for the last half of the 40 mile ride - won't do that again!) and my shoulder.
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We have the daily ride thread, why not the daily crash thread? :D
I'll do the honors -
OUCH! ROAD RASH!
My ego is more bruised up than my hand (forgot the gloves for the last half of the 40 mile ride - won't do that again!) and my shoulder.
Sorry to hear you had an oops dear!
Umm..no crashes on this end for now..I don't want to be off my bike for any length of time again for quite a while...(ok other than during our trip..)
Flybye, getting road rash is not fun. Ow! Hope it heals quickly.
Here's to a speedy recovery! (I hope I never have occasion to post an incident here.) :)
OUch.
DH came off today. The bolt holding his saddle on sheared. He has some quite impressive road rash, but no serious damage done.
Fortunately we were on a bike path and only 2km from home. Could have been much worse.
Please tell DH I commiserate with him. I am pretty sore today but not nearly as bad as it could have been! Glad that you were close to home - I was within a mile myself. I don't think I've ever heard of the bolt shearing on a saddle - OUCH!
OW!! OWIE! Oh, I shouldn't have seen this thread. Now I'll be crash prone. :rolleyes:
No road rash, but last week I put my hand through some dude's taillight.....
It was raining and he slammed on his brakes in front of me. Even with my brakes full on, there wasn't anything I could do to stop in time and I basically rear ended him. I do not honestly remember if he pulled the pass the cyclist and slam on the brakes routine or not, though where I was he had to have passed me at some point. He did jump out of the car and yell - there was nothing I could do..... he at least stopped and asked if I was OK, but he jumped right back in the car and took off like a jack rabbit. And I was going to be perfectly willing to pay for his smashed light - heck I was the one who hit him afterall. I came out of it all pretty good. I had on long finger gloves so I just got a few small cuts on my hand and a bruise on my bicep.
Thanks, he's healing up although the bruises are pretty impressive, and he's being a bit of a drama queen about them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flybye
The bolt had come loose a couple of times, so I don't know if there was a fault there. We'll go along to the shop and see what they say.
I hope your hand and shoulder are better.
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Originally Posted by Eden
Owie! How are you doing?
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Thanks, he's healing up although the bruises are pretty impressive, and he's being a bit of a drama queen about them
Nothing wrong with that :D!! Milk it for all it's worth, baby :D
I am healing up fine. I rode 10 on Tuesday and went to spin class last night. The bruises are a lovely shade of yellow. I used New Skin which is like superglue on my hand and it has healed at an amazing speed! Thanks for asking.
Not an actual crash (thank goodness) but a near-miss on Tuesday. I was out running errands and was on the way home, on a fairly busy street. There was some sand in my path, but I sometimes ride through stuff like that and it's never caused a problem. Well, this sand was deeper than usual because it was filling a depression in the road surface, so as I went through it I basically fishtailed and almost went down. The only thing that prevented this from being a crash was that I was able to put a foot down to catch myself--good thing I was going slow!