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Fell Off My Bike Twice Yesterday
Twice in about five minutes !!
First time was at a junction, it was slightly uphill and as I set off, I couldn't get clipped in, my foot slipped and I lost my balance. Hit the tarmac ouch!!! My ever loving OH, glanced back, saw me getting up, so carried on without me!
When I caught him up about five minutes later, we stopped while I showed off my wounds, and guess what, I forgot I'd left one foot clipped in, lost my balance and fell in a hedge.
Unbelievable. Apart from killing himself laughing, all OH could say was, "had I ever thought about swim/run duathlon's?"
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I fell into a ditch yeserday as I stopped appruptly and forgot to disconnect my feet at speed...
Upside down the bruised groin is painful but the nettle stings on the face got me... And my OH laughing rather than helping!
After getting him picked up, rode round a corner to find someone carrying their bike. Turned out they'd crashed as well, buckled rear wheel but fortunately only had minor cuts and bruises.
After that we peeled into the nearest tea room, before heading swiftly back, deciding not to risk it any further. Only other thing worth mentioning is the broken collarbone could have been insignificant judging by the state of the lads helmet if he hadn't been wearing it.
Not just me then
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My OH was also too busy laughing to help me out of the hedge.
Just bruises and grazes for me, thankfully no nettles, took me a while to get all the twigs out of my hair though.
I just got some funny looks at the pool this lunchtime, both my legs and one shoulder are black & blue, looks like somebody's been beating me up
We thought he'd only bruised himself because whilst being in obvious pain was have a little laugh with us as we stood waiting for a lift, even asking what score out of 10 we ranked his crashing style!
MA, that might have been concussion do the talking!!! Poor guy, could have been much worse though as you say.
BBP - now you've fallen off a couple of times, hopefully you'll not worry about doing so so much in the future! I've fallen off a couple of times, I think it is inevitable!
I used to think a successful bike ride was one where I didn’t have a near death experience. (To be honest I probably still do think that.)
Friend of ours fell off on Friday and broke his collarbone too, but it was a bad break and he had to be operated on right away to insert pins.
Absolutely -Dustboy have you ever organised a ride where nobody has fallen off? I can't recall one.
bbp - glad you are okay after your topples. You are a propper cyclist now.
Edit - keep away from dusty though cos not only does he laugh, he takes a photo.
Sounds like I got off lightly, with collar bone intact.
It's these pesky clipped in pedals, I'm OK as long as I don't stop
bburn it happens to everyone like kk but it's going to get better with time.
To make bburn plodder feel better: Note that I'm still clipped in - couldn't get out of them.
Happens to everyone.
Maybe we could start a points scale in your honour - 'bp' index or something like that?!
1 point - stationary
2 Points - low speed
3 Points - high speed
1 Point - witnessed by 1 person
2 points - witnessed by more than 1 person
3 points - photographic evidence
1 point - in practice
2 points - during a race
3 points - showboating at the finish line
1 point - nobody else involved
2 points - wipe out other riders in the process
3 points - wipe out pedestrians/ innocent bystanders
1 point - scratches only
2 points - scratches and damaged gear
3 points - any break - bike or self
Any criteria that I missed? Artistic merit? Cause of crash etc?
(My best/worst is 9 points, and probably on about 100 over the years).
Don't forget about falling off a turbo.
Snigger!!!
I got lots of points me but luckily no photo evidence Soupy
Not yet Cake
Falling off is easy!
Learning to fall off without scratching your pride and joy is an art