Andy500
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Nottinghamshire
Just looking for some sympathy and also a lesson for me and others!
Was on my way out to the club run meeting point at 8:30 am on Christmas eve, hit some black ice when I was doing about 22mph and the bike just shot out from underneath me. I landed very heavily on my right elbow and hip, also slammed my head into the tarmac (as evidenced by the damage to the helmet), slid along the tarmac removing skin from elbow and hip. I lay on the road for 30 secs whilst I got my bearings. Eventually got back to my feet but with a slight pain in my hip and blood seeping through my clothing, cobbled my damaged bike back together and decided to continue to the club run meeting point as at that stage I didn't feel to bad.
Met up with the other club members and went off on a 40 mile ride with them. My hip and thigh during the ride gradually got more and more painful to the point where from 1/2 way around the ride I couldn't put any power into the right pedal through my right leg, hill climbs were pure hell.
By the time I got home I was in agony and could barely get off my bike. I could not put any weight on my right leg. Off to A&E I went, was x-rayed and scanned and informed that it is soft tissue damage probably made worse by carrying on riding after the fall, what a numpty I am!!!!
Now been on crutches for a week with probably weeks to go with no foreseeable prospect of riding again any time soon. AND ITS DRIVING ME MAD.
So what mistakes did I make? Well should not have gone out early in the morning when there was a possibility of ice around, should have taken my bike in the car to the meeting point as the club ride does not start until 10am, by then any ice would have gone. I should not have continued riding after the fall as, I assume, the adrenaline from the fall suppressed the pain. Should have stopped during the club run when the pain was getting worse and either called an ambulance or got my better half to fetch me rather than trying to play the hero.
Let this be a lesson to others.
Rgds
Andy500
Was on my way out to the club run meeting point at 8:30 am on Christmas eve, hit some black ice when I was doing about 22mph and the bike just shot out from underneath me. I landed very heavily on my right elbow and hip, also slammed my head into the tarmac (as evidenced by the damage to the helmet), slid along the tarmac removing skin from elbow and hip. I lay on the road for 30 secs whilst I got my bearings. Eventually got back to my feet but with a slight pain in my hip and blood seeping through my clothing, cobbled my damaged bike back together and decided to continue to the club run meeting point as at that stage I didn't feel to bad.
Met up with the other club members and went off on a 40 mile ride with them. My hip and thigh during the ride gradually got more and more painful to the point where from 1/2 way around the ride I couldn't put any power into the right pedal through my right leg, hill climbs were pure hell.
By the time I got home I was in agony and could barely get off my bike. I could not put any weight on my right leg. Off to A&E I went, was x-rayed and scanned and informed that it is soft tissue damage probably made worse by carrying on riding after the fall, what a numpty I am!!!!
Now been on crutches for a week with probably weeks to go with no foreseeable prospect of riding again any time soon. AND ITS DRIVING ME MAD.
So what mistakes did I make? Well should not have gone out early in the morning when there was a possibility of ice around, should have taken my bike in the car to the meeting point as the club ride does not start until 10am, by then any ice would have gone. I should not have continued riding after the fall as, I assume, the adrenaline from the fall suppressed the pain. Should have stopped during the club run when the pain was getting worse and either called an ambulance or got my better half to fetch me rather than trying to play the hero.
Let this be a lesson to others.
Rgds
Andy500
