It’s time for another forum cycle/vehicle disagreement

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[mik]

That’s just nuts.

[Gavster]

I should coco

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[Beany]

Jammy as fuck, that one.

Apart from the whole thing happening at all, of course.

[ZedLeg]

Had my first off since I started commuting again this morning.

Entirely self inflected, was turning on to some wet granite slabs and leaned too far/was going too fast.

Stings a bit

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Three weeks later and I've had another off. Grated my face on the pavement, fractured a bone in my wrist and probably a broken toe as well. I had to get a cut on my chin glued shut as it wouldn't stop bleeding.

I'm hoping now that I've broken something, I've done that job and when I get on my bike again in a couple of weeks I can cycle around without killing myself

[Gavster]

Holy shit how did you do that?

[ZedLeg]

So, I usually come off a cycle lane at a dropped pavement to go round onto another road. There's a car park next to it and if someone's coming out, it blocks the dropped pavement and I have to go round at another point.

This happened on Friday and my brain had a short circuit, by the time I'd caught up, I'd hit the (high) kerb and gone over the handlebars.

Blame lack of sleep and ADHD brain.

I've been walking in this week and found a route that doesn't have so many awkward crossings and transitions so hopefully it'll be less risky for me

[Gavster]

Damn human fallibility always messing things up, perhaps it's time to consider wearing full biker leathers when cycling

[ZedLeg]

Yeah folk at work were recommending a full face helmet and MX pads

I'm glad I bowed to my partner's nagging about wearing a helmet every time I go out tbh. It would've been a lot worse without it.

I'll need to remember to replace it as it's flattened the padding where I hit the pavement.

[mik]

Ouch. GWS(YC)

[jamcg]

Yeah folk at work were recommending a full face helmet and MX pads

I'm glad I bowed to my partner's nagging about wearing a helmet every time I go out tbh. It would've been a lot worse without it.

I'll need to remember to replace it as it's flattened the padding where I hit the pavement.

Helmets should be replaced every time they have an impact, it’s not just the padding, any impact crushes the material so they don’t absorb impact as well/at all the next time it happens

I’m a big advocate of helmets after I came off big time as a kid, I went over the handlebars at 25+mph and went head first into the tarmac, ended up with a bust lip and grit embedded into my front teeth, but didn’t have a fractured skull which was brilliant

[ZedLeg]

Yeah I tend to replace them if they're showing damage tbh. I just wear Endura Pisspots for that old school BMX chic so they're cheap.

I've always worn a helmet while trail riding but I've historically been a bit lackadaisical about wearing one in town. This is probably the crash that's drilled that out of me, worst accident I've had in about 20 years.

[ZedLeg]

Ouch. GWS(YC)

Cheers Mik

[IanF]

Gws Zed..

[nuttinnew]

Ach, Zed ye numpty twat
I don't know why, but wrist injuries always sound particularly grim to me
I'd always be inclined to wear head protection on the road because other people about thus things out of your control.
Hopefully things will heal as if it never happened.

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[Jobbo]

Can’t believe there are people in the comments saying the biker was speeding and came out of nowhere. FFS, yes - it was a blind bend; you anticipate that there might be something there if you come round it on the wrong side of the road - that’s why you avoid doing that