....with me on it D:
Whilst going down a small hill out of work I braked and the handlebar stem came loose from the bike causing me to lose all steering control and the front wheel to go sideways making a very effective immediate brake, unfortunately the back wheel still wanted to keep going and the bike flipped over forwards down the hill.
hit the ground hard with my knees then my hands (still holding onto the detached handlebars!) then going down onto my right side, all of this whilst there was a parent of a child I look after from my nursery in a car behind me! She came rushing out of her car and I was still rolling around on the floor in agony still, I remember looking at the bike and swearing then I stood up and didnt feel that bad, mostly just really shaky. She helped me back to the nursery where I locked up both parts of my bike and explained to my boss what had happened and to ask her for a lift the next morning, a friend gave me a lift home and thats when the pain really started kicking in.
Severe bruising to both knees, a deep bruise on my right thigh which I'm assuming was caused by going down heavily onto my set of lock keys in my pocket, skinned and bruised right elbow and scuffs to hands and fingers, my helmet get cracked but fortunately I appeared to have not suffered at all from that. Unfortunately my left knee got increasingly more painful and swollen through the night which I assumed was because its my knee I have previously injured so I was just feeling it more so I just tried to limp through work the next day. my manager insisted I went to accident and emergency after she saw the pain I was in and thats where I ended up for 3 hours.
After being strapped into a knee immobilser over the weekend I went to the fracture clinic on the Monday and was kitted out with crutches and sent for an MRI and told to keep the brace on for another two weeks until I went to the fracture clinic again for the results. Fortunately there was been no permanent damage but I have sever bone edema in my knee and require physio for it in two weeks time, until then I'm still stuck in the brace and crutches so I'm definitely off work until then, 4 weeks off is horrible after not having a sick day for 7 years D:
The bike itself I purchased in November from a new bicycle shop that opened in the next town but due to the weather I barely rode it until the end of January so I had not put it in for its 6 week service yet. I am just wondering if this is a part that can work loose over time and if it is something I should check before each ride? The bike was already built in the bike shop when I purchased it and they supplied me with a check sheet stating they had checked that the stem bolts were tight and since then I hadn't adjusted it as I was sized for the bike in the shop so I have no idea what has gone wrong.
The bike is: http://www.ridgeback.co.uk/bike/momentum-open-frame
Whilst going down a small hill out of work I braked and the handlebar stem came loose from the bike causing me to lose all steering control and the front wheel to go sideways making a very effective immediate brake, unfortunately the back wheel still wanted to keep going and the bike flipped over forwards down the hill.
hit the ground hard with my knees then my hands (still holding onto the detached handlebars!) then going down onto my right side, all of this whilst there was a parent of a child I look after from my nursery in a car behind me! She came rushing out of her car and I was still rolling around on the floor in agony still, I remember looking at the bike and swearing then I stood up and didnt feel that bad, mostly just really shaky. She helped me back to the nursery where I locked up both parts of my bike and explained to my boss what had happened and to ask her for a lift the next morning, a friend gave me a lift home and thats when the pain really started kicking in.
Severe bruising to both knees, a deep bruise on my right thigh which I'm assuming was caused by going down heavily onto my set of lock keys in my pocket, skinned and bruised right elbow and scuffs to hands and fingers, my helmet get cracked but fortunately I appeared to have not suffered at all from that. Unfortunately my left knee got increasingly more painful and swollen through the night which I assumed was because its my knee I have previously injured so I was just feeling it more so I just tried to limp through work the next day. my manager insisted I went to accident and emergency after she saw the pain I was in and thats where I ended up for 3 hours.
After being strapped into a knee immobilser over the weekend I went to the fracture clinic on the Monday and was kitted out with crutches and sent for an MRI and told to keep the brace on for another two weeks until I went to the fracture clinic again for the results. Fortunately there was been no permanent damage but I have sever bone edema in my knee and require physio for it in two weeks time, until then I'm still stuck in the brace and crutches so I'm definitely off work until then, 4 weeks off is horrible after not having a sick day for 7 years D:
The bike itself I purchased in November from a new bicycle shop that opened in the next town but due to the weather I barely rode it until the end of January so I had not put it in for its 6 week service yet. I am just wondering if this is a part that can work loose over time and if it is something I should check before each ride? The bike was already built in the bike shop when I purchased it and they supplied me with a check sheet stating they had checked that the stem bolts were tight and since then I hadn't adjusted it as I was sized for the bike in the shop so I have no idea what has gone wrong.
The bike is: http://www.ridgeback.co.uk/bike/momentum-open-frame
