Thank you taxing.
Ice crash... my luck ran out.
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Thank you taxing.
Globalti
Legendary Member
Ouch! You'll be fine, don't worry. People knock the UK Health Service but it's still the best. How much did the treatment cost you? Not a penny, I bet.
Once you get onto water ice on foot or on wheels there's nothing you can do, you will come down and the crash is inevitably fast and brutal. I've seen several people come down on ice and it always hurts.
Once you get onto water ice on foot or on wheels there's nothing you can do, you will come down and the crash is inevitably fast and brutal. I've seen several people come down on ice and it always hurts.
hondated
Guru
- Location
- Eastbourne East Sussex
Sorry to learn about your misfortune and hope you get well and back on the bike quickly.I too came off yesterday on ice but thankfully I suffered no injury and just had to move the bars back to the correct position.
2Loose
Guru
- Location
- Loughborough, Leicestershire.
Ow Ow Ow - maybe I will delay the return to the bike until it gets above zero, that sounds all too sudden and unavoidable with all the ice spots around at the moment.
Get well soon.
Get well soon.
mgarl10024
Über Member
- Location
- Bristol
Airbrake - also very sorry to hear about your accident.
I was off my feet for a few months last year when I dislocated my knee (non-cycling injury), and I know that it can be very frustrating being so reliant on others, but keep patient and it'll sort itself out.
Also, for those who don't carry mobiles because they don't want to be a slave to them - you are aware that they have a silent mode? I *always* carry mine, and I carry it *for my convenience* and return calls and texts on that basis.
I was off my feet for a few months last year when I dislocated my knee (non-cycling injury), and I know that it can be very frustrating being so reliant on others, but keep patient and it'll sort itself out.
Also, for those who don't carry mobiles because they don't want to be a slave to them - you are aware that they have a silent mode? I *always* carry mine, and I carry it *for my convenience* and return calls and texts on that basis.
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
Damn! Get well soon.
This is why I use studded tyres in winter and ride about half my normal speed... (fingers crossed now, having said that!).
This is why I use studded tyres in winter and ride about half my normal speed... (fingers crossed now, having said that!).
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
GWS Airbrake. (I'll be riding on Saturday - I think - and will take your advice!)
Yes, I can think of 3 occasions when I was commuting. On 2 I had no injuries at all (going slow), the 3rd just a slight bruise - it was a huge sheet of black ice, looked just like a wet road, when I hit the ground I slid and think this took the force away slightly.
Mobiles are useful because anyone immobilised outdoors in this weather is risking their life without.
Yes, I can think of 3 occasions when I was commuting. On 2 I had no injuries at all (going slow), the 3rd just a slight bruise - it was a huge sheet of black ice, looked just like a wet road, when I hit the ground I slid and think this took the force away slightly.
Mobiles are useful because anyone immobilised outdoors in this weather is risking their life without.
Panter
Just call me Chris...
- Location
- Sittingbourne, Kent
That's horrendous! I was reading it with a smile, initially, thinking it was a comedy fall story until it to came to the actual accident 
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Fast and brutal - a perfect description of what happened.
I don't mind sliding and slithering around provided it happens slow enough for me to react to it. The problem is that ice never affords that luxury. I was lucky all the previous years, and that breeds complacency of course.
Thank you 2Loose.
Thank you mgarl10024.
It's true that some frustration sets in - I'm carefully trying to do as much as I can.
Re silent mode, I have to admit I'm a kind of troglodyte when it comes to mobile phones ! It does sound useful.
Thank you asterix.
I'm coming around to mobiles I think. I do visit some remote places without people / traffic, and I can imagine in these areas it would have been a case of 'game over'. Being pretty slim, my temperature drops quickly in cold weather if I can't keep moving. The other aspect is that a phone could be used to help others of course.
That's horrendous! I was reading it with a smile, initially, thinking it was a comedy fall story until it to came to the actual accident
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Thanks Chris.
I admit to a few comedy falls - I wish I had been relating one of those instead.
