My first crash.

On 24/2/04 2:25 pm, in article , "Helen
Deborah Vecht" wrote:


I've given up cycling now but *never* had a cycling-related crash[1]
resulting in hospital treatment. For three years, I averaged 10,000
miles pa.

But you did end up in hospital after cycling far more than most of us here
;-)

...d

David Martin typed


On 24/2/04 2:25 pm, in article , "Helen
Deborah Vecht" wrote:


I've given up cycling now but *never* had a cycling-related crash[1]
resulting in hospital treatment. For three years, I averaged 10,000
miles pa.

But you did end up in hospital after cycling far more than most of us here
;-)

..d


Yeah well someone has to work there; isn't the NHS a rather large employer ;-)

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in message , Helen Deborah Vecht
') wrote:

2LAP typed


MSeries wrote:
Yikes, hope you suffer/suffered no after effects. Take it easy out
there. Unfortunatley these things do happen.
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I have about one crash a year of varying severity; from just falling at
tram lines to wiping out on bends.

Uuuh?!?!

I've given up cycling now but *never* had a cycling-related crash[1]
resulting in hospital treatment. For three years, I averaged 10,000
miles pa.

I had two stitches in my palm once, about thirty-five years ago.

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me down. I think I'll upgrade to MSLife 97 -- you know, the one that
comes in a flash new box and within weeks you're crawling with bugs.

Bad luck Simon, hope there's no lasting ill efects to you or the bike.

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"Simon Mason" wrote in message
om...
Well, I suppose one crash in 6 years isn't bad. I had left my car at a
garage for service/repairs/MOT etc. and taken my bike off the rear
rack and rode to work. On the way back to pick it up, I rode around a
roundabout, the same roundabout I use every day, except that I took a
different line as ironically my car was waiting to be picked up at the
second exit of this roundabout and I usually take the first. The next
thing I knew, my front wheel lost grip and I ended up gashing my
ankle, banging my knee and ended with a large blow to my unhelmeted
bonce.


Thank god you weren't wearing a helmet, who knows what might
have happened otherwise. Right kids ?

2LAP wrote:
I have about one crash a year of varying severity; from just
falling at tram lines to wiping out on bends.

Prompting David Martin to respond:
Thats about one more than me. Maybe it's something to do with riding
style?
snip
They may be part of your cycling but I sure as anything try to make
sure they are not part of mine. Sure I have fallen off a few times
but crashes that require medical attention have been virtually
non-existent. Maybe it is down to riding style.

Maybe it's also down to one's definition of "crash". 2LAP regards
falling off at tram lines as a crash, perhaps David would regard it as
simply falling off.

FWIW I've probably averaged about 3000 miles and 1 fall a year over the
last 12 years (nothing requiring medical attention), but then I'm really
not interested in mountain biking. When I want to ride rough terrain I
prefer to do it on one wheel, and I will fall several times during the
course of a properly challenging ride.

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On 23 Feb 2004 15:56:11 -0800, (Simon Mason) wrote in
message :

my front wheel lost grip and I ended up gashing my
ankle, banging my knee and ended with a large blow to my unhelmeted
bonce.

Whoops, dearie. Sounds like you're OK? I will sacrifice a chainlink
to the cycling gods in the hope of a speedy recovery for man and bike.

I staggered into the garage on foot and to add insult to injury
(literally) was forced to pay 450 quid for car repairs, which had
single handedly wiped out all of the petrol savings for a whole year I
save by cycle commuting.

That started getting to me, as well. Luckily we were a two-car family
so I had the option of ditching one completely.

The next night I went out for a 20-mile run, but my confidence was
shot; I was convinced that I was going to fall off at every bend.

Sounds familiar :-( On t'other hand, a bit more caution is never bad
I suppose...

My work mates said that they had told me that cycling was dangerous,
at the same time as a second colleague was hospitalised by a heart
attack...

Tee-hee!

Guy
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:26:19 -0000, "Danny Colyer"
wrote:

Maybe it's also down to one's definition of "crash".

I used to ski. _Really_ ski.

I can't even reach speeds on a bike which I used to regularly crash
at, and think nothing of it. Admittedly snow is softer than tarmac,
but not _that_ much softer, if you hit it fast enough. I know two
paraplegic skiers, no similar cyclists.


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omcom (dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers) wrote in message ...
Commiserations! At least you now have some road rash to show you are a
real cyclist. :-)

And commisserations from me. What Simon now needs is one of these..

http://www.primalwear.com/2004site/2...RTS/OTBSC.html

...an official Over The Bar Scar Club t-shirt :-)


Yes - I'll have one of those :-)
Simon

"Just zis Guy, you know?" wrote in message . ..
On 23 Feb 2004 15:56:11 -0800, (Simon Mason) wrote in
message :

my front wheel lost grip and I ended up gashing my
ankle, banging my knee and ended with a large blow to my unhelmeted
bonce.

Whoops, dearie. Sounds like you're OK? I will sacrifice a chainlink
to the cycling gods in the hope of a speedy recovery for man and bike.

Yes Guy, my bonce had a bit of a boiled egg on it for a few hours,
but only had cuts and scrapes. Luckily no cars were following that
close, biggest blow was that repair bill ;-)
Simon