oh yes, couple of biggies, and earlier this year three times in six weeks. First similar to yours PaulB, braking for a bend on a steep downhill the front locked, so backed off, tried again and down I went. Annoyingly the road surface looked fine, recent undamaged tarmac; it was just greasy on the bend. Broke dérailleur hanger and did a bodged single speed conversion. Rash on right hip and right elbow and shoulder.
Then a car turned into my path from the right, would have been fine going up the inside of him except he immediately turned left across me. It was wet and not too much damage but re-rashed my barely healed hip. It was a proper 'looked but failed to see', he claimed I'd undertaken a car that had flashed him, but I'd been in primary so he must have just not seen me.
The third time was overcooking it onto a roundabout with very gravelly outer lane, not quite making the corner (car overtaking just before had compromised my line but I was too fast anyway) and losing it on the gravel, smashing into the kerb. The scab from the not yet healed rash on my hip slid off under my shorts in one piece.
All healed now but right hip has big red scarred patch. Apparently the rule of thumb is you need medical attention if the third degree bit is bigger than a fifty pence piece. And the more pain you endure in scrubbing it the better. I used brulidine cream too.
Then a car turned into my path from the right, would have been fine going up the inside of him except he immediately turned left across me. It was wet and not too much damage but re-rashed my barely healed hip. It was a proper 'looked but failed to see', he claimed I'd undertaken a car that had flashed him, but I'd been in primary so he must have just not seen me.
The third time was overcooking it onto a roundabout with very gravelly outer lane, not quite making the corner (car overtaking just before had compromised my line but I was too fast anyway) and losing it on the gravel, smashing into the kerb. The scab from the not yet healed rash on my hip slid off under my shorts in one piece.
All healed now but right hip has big red scarred patch. Apparently the rule of thumb is you need medical attention if the third degree bit is bigger than a fifty pence piece. And the more pain you endure in scrubbing it the better. I used brulidine cream too.
