Been out of action - not for the squeamish

[Steve H]

I was cycling to work a couple of week's ago. It was dark, but I had a decent set of lights on. However there were a couple of road signs in the cycle lane that must have been blown over by the wind. When they are face down the sides and legs are just grey and blend in with the rest of the road.

I managed to bunny hop the first a little and get over it with just a bit of a wobble, but then went bang, straight into a second one that I hit full on. The last thing I remember was tipping forward over the handle bars. I must have given my head a real crack, as the next thing I realised was coming to and scrambling for the side of the road.

A trip to A&E to get checked out, left me off work for 4 days with concussion and a nasty bit of road rash down my left hand side.

I'm not one for getting involved in the helmet vs non-helmet brigade, but I genuinely think things would have been a lot worse if I'd not worn one!

Here are a couple of photos for you gore lovers. You can see the road signs quite easily in the daylight, but I can assure you they weren't so visible in the dark.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Oh shoot ouch nasty .................... hope you are ok GWS

 

[potsy]

Ouch, wondered where you'd been Steve, sounds nasty.
It has improved your looks a bit though, see there's always a silver lining

 

[snorri]

Good to hear you are back on your feet!
I think you should give us a condition report for the bike too

 

[col]

And thats WITH a helmet on?

 

[DCLane]

Ouch! - get well soon.

 

[ColinJ]

Yikes!

I'm glad you weren't more seriously hurt Steve. Like potsy, I thought you'd been a bit quiet recently ...

How's the bike?

 

[400bhp]

Ouch

I can't (don't want to) look at the pics.

GWS

 

[Edge705]

Ouch Steve that must have been a nasty one get well soon friend.

 

[HLaB]

Ouch, GWS!

 

[Nearly there]

Get well soon fella

 

[Arjimlad]

Ouch indeed - hope you feel better soon. From the injuries it looks like a good job you had a helmet on.

Those temporary road signs are a menace, after reading this, I for one will be more vigilant looking out for them & more prepared to stop to move them out of the way for other cyclists/road users.

 

[dellzeqq]

ooch! Get well soon!

 

[Kiwiavenger]

Christ! Get well soon mate.

 

[Paul.G.]

Close shave and glad your OK, now find the owners of the signs and get some decent legal advice. Most probably they belong to a Utility company (usually says on the back of the sign) I know I work for one of the big six - they are responsible regardless of how the sign blew over.