1st Big Smash

[sayek1]

Came a cropper yesterday on the ice - spent most of the day in AandE followed by the dentist!

Not a scratch on the bike (just the odd blood splatter) - my helmet and side of the face took the impact - good job I had a helmet on or it might have been worse.

Irony was that last thing I read the night before was how to lessen the impact of falls in Cycling+. However, when the bike goes from under you on ice you dont have any warning - I reckon I was less than a nano-second from upright and fine to down and out.

Oh well - new rule is never leave the house unless its +5 on the thermometer!!! Looks like the car will get some more use.

 

[Twenty Inch]

Ouch. Hope you make a quick recovery. If it makes you feel any better, one of my previous workplaces used to have a little book going on how often I would fall off on the ice.

 

[fossyant]

Nasty..........

 

[BentMikey]

Oooh unlucky mate! It's funny how falls can either be slow motion and you have all the time inthe world to think about it as ground zero approaches, or they happen BLAM!!!! I fall quite a bit as a skater, LOL!

 

[numbnuts]

another Ouch get well soon

 

[ianrauk]

Yeah get well soon mate, feel for you.
An off like that on ice there is no time to prepare.. it will just throw you to the ground ultra quick.

 

[tdr1nka]

Oooh. Bad luck.

Rest well.

 

[StuartG]

I think it worth saying that snow is manageable (slowly) but black ice is not. Black ice appears to be largely a UK thing so we can fare much worse than 'colder' countries.

It can't be seen hence avoided and there is not a lot you can do but pray. Unlike snow you are not going to get a soft landing and because it comes so suddenly you don't really have time to make that fall graceful. Hence BI falls can be more serious than ordinary falls. It also has a psychologically unsettling effect. It can put you off riding. The OP's last line was painfully learnt (and remembered?)

So please think twice, three times or whatever before going out when there is ANY possibility of black ice. I take that as any damp uncovered road with air temperatures between 30&37F.

But tomorrow when the snow arrives here - a different story. Falling off can be fun!

 

[Bollo]

+ouch! GWS

 

[Matty]

Bad luck. You'll be more aware next time, and yes there will be a next time! I'm cycling much more gingerly this year after last years big off.

 

[photography27]

ouch man, hope you are better soon, i remember coming ofmy motorbike at about 2 mph coming up to a junction, black ice was the problem and i hit the floor faster than i could blink.
Black ice is nasty, and i think common sense should prevail, if you think there will be black ice then use alternative transport!!

 

[mr Mag00]

ooops get well soon!

 

[Plax]

Ouch! Hope you recover quickly.
I've fallen on ice twice so I fully sympathise- once last December when I didn't see the sheet ice until the last minute and bam. No injuries or damage there.
Last time was in January (first day back at work!) on what must have been black ice. Never saw anything, hit the deck before I realised what was happening. Nasty bruise on my thigh that took ages to go, and started spidering down my leg before it healed. Bike - wrecked my right STI shifter (it snapped in half where the hood is and I lost the name plate along with deep scratches), ripped bar tape and a bent hanger. Thankfully the mini bus behind me had slowed to a near stop as a bus was coming the other way so I didn't get squished. No bugger stopped to ask if I was alright though!

 

[Tinuts]

You have my complete sympathy as exactly the same thing happened to me just over a year ago. I couldn't physically move for two weeks; it was the worst accident I've had in terms of recovery (still feeling the effects a year later in the cold weather) so I really hope your's wasn't that bad. As you found out, one moment you're up and the next you're down - nothing you can do about it! Best wishes for a swift recovery.

 

[skudupnorth]

Get well and back on the bike soon,that black ice is a bitch !