Article: Fell off my bike and vowed never to get back on

[maillotpois]

Did you read through the comments? The people that blamed themselves for the accident kept riding and those that blamed something out of their control quit riding...

That's fascinating. Every crash I have had, including the one that broke my scpaula, was my fault. And I'm still riding.

I mediated a car v. bike case last week and the cyclist, who had been hit from behind, was very nervous about resuming riding. I can understand that - when you do something stupid, you hope you learn from it and can avoid repeating it. When something is beyond your control (a car), then you would be understandably nervous because it is something largely beyond your control.

Obviously a traumatic injury is psychologically different from a chronic injury, but I know WAY more people who have given up running because of injury, than cycling.

I'm one of those. Chronic ITB problems during my stint as a marathoner really took away my enthusiasm for a sport I didn't really have a lot of enthusiasm for to begin with.