I haven't been around here for a while, for various reasons, mostly to do with chicken-with-her-head-cut-off-level of busyness--I know, like everybody else, but...there it is. But I've been riding all the time, averaging probably 50 miles/week.

Anyway, I had a crash yesterday--only me, no cars, dogs, or pedestrians involved. Here's my question: it looks like the bolt that held my saddle to the seat post failed. The bolt looks like it was just sheared off. I felt it break, but not in time to stop my fall. Has any of you ever seen/heard of that kind of thing happening?

My right knee took the brunt of the fall: it's scraped, swollen, sore, but I am able to put some weight on it, and naproxen sodium seems to be keeping the pain under control. I've been neosporining and doing the RICE thing, and seeing my doc today for an xray to be sure that it's not hurt worse than I think it is. I've got some other miscellaneous dents and scrapes--scraped elbows, bruised hands, upper body soreness--but I don't seem to have hit my head--no damage to my helmet. My friend who was riding with me collected all the bits and pieces--saddle and hardware in particular.

So I kind of think I got off lucky, but I was wondering what you all think about this bolt failure--it seems unusual to me, and not really something I'd normally think of inspecting more than say, once a year.