Down, BANG, What??

[Thomk]

Thanks all. I'll just spend more time at the gym on the bikes and step machine thingy's & try to do some leg machine exersises which should help when I get back on the bike in the new year.

 

[summerdays]

Went to A&E this morning. I have a fractured bone in my elbow and will be off the bike for a while. ?

Sorry to hear about your fall. I fractured a bone in my elbow a couple of years ago ... it didn't take too long to get back on the bike (probably too quickly from a safety point of view). I remember it hurts more than you suspect for quite some time - so you have my sympathy.

 

[botchjob]

Ouchy. Sounds very similar to my last off when I was coming off a cycle path onto a road with a teeny weeny drop that I encounter every day. I still don’t know exactly how I came off but approach that particular drop with more caution now.

In about 8 years of commuting I’ve come off a grand total of 4 times, none of which involved anyone else but me and a slippy road. Twice I slipped on diesel turning at low speed, once turning onto wet cobbles, and once as above. I think on balance that some minor cuts and bruises every couple of years is not bad going. Don’t half hurt though.

 

[BrumJim]

You should be alright by Saturday!
We live and learn. Importantly, we learn how to fall without causing too much damage!

 

[Bicycle]

Went to A&E this morning. I have a fractured bone in my elbow and will be off the bike for a while. I guess this means I'm nearly a "proper" cyclist as I've:

1. Been cycling for about 6 months
2. cycled over 1000 miles
3. got 3 bikes
4. Been to A&E
5. broken a bone

missed anything?

Do you have a view on helmet use? That's the one that's kept me out of the club these past few years.

Also, you have to have a 'maximum speed achieved' tale that no-one will believe but no-one can check.

 

[snorri]

Also, you have to have a 'maximum speed achieved' tale that no-one will believe but no-one can check.

Give him a chance Bicycle, he has less than 500 posts so is not yet permitted to add the CC Correction Factor to his top speed.

 

[zigzag]

get well soon Thomk, broken/fractured bones take some time to heal. i had my elbow fractured two months ago and i still can't fully extend or bend my arm, still quite painful.

 

[summerdays]

Keep bending and extending it (gently) to get the range of movement back. Now about 2 or 3 years on from my fracture I have normal movement apart from if I'm carrying a weight in that arm .. I can't take the weight through one part of the action of lowering it and have to do it in a two part movement.

 

[Thomk]

You should be alright by Saturday!
We live and learn. Importantly, we learn how to fall without causing too much damage!

I have spend many years learning how to fall. It was impossible here as the front wheel slid forwards and sideways and I was on the floor in a fraction of a second, so quickly in fact that I didn't even have a chance to stop my head from banging on the ground.

 

[Thomk]

Do you have a view on helmet use? That's the one that's kept me out of the club these past few years.

Also, you have to have a 'maximum speed achieved' tale that no-one will believe but no-one can check.

I do have a view on helmet use. I think it probably makes little statistical difference if they are worn or not in general. BUT (and I am guessing here) I take the view that someone who seriously commutes is probably a little better off with rather than without. I don't readily accept that helmets increase the risk of serious head injury (rotational) and am just a little content that I had one on the other day. BTW my maximum speed is less than 40 MPH. I may try to exaggerate it a bit when I reach 500 posts. Cheers!

 

[baldycyclist]

sorry to hear of the fall - quite quick that speed mind you? Get better.
wife did this a few years ago - took it at too shallow an angle due to lack of experience.
I always try to take them as steep an angle as is possible and as the surrounding space gives me.
A little "lift" sometimes gets you up as the rear can slip and you can still carry on?
Probably bad advice that?

 

[jonny jeez]

Ouch...and Bugger.

I had a moment a few months back where I nearly did the exact same thing. Realyy shocking how quickly it all seems to happen.

You seem to have a really good attitude about it, so well done (if that doesn't sound too patronising).

Hope you mend fast

 

[CopperBrompton]

My sympathies - broken elbows are painful things. I've broken both radial heads (in separate accidents, neither of them cycling) and have definitely decided not to do a third one ...