Ouch! I fell off.

[PrettyboyTim]

I screwed up a corner on my way home last night and came off at around 20mph - the bike just slipped from underneath me.

I seem to be basically okay - my right knee took the brunt of it - I've got a nasty big graze on it but I was able to cycle the rest of the way home and although it's sore the underlying joint seems to work fine. I don't suppose I'll be cycling for a few days, though.

My bike seems okay from it - the only casualty was my blinky LED cateye, which has been basically reduced to a battery casing.

Although the bikecam came off its mount and bounced down the road with me, it kept on recording and is undamaged. It's a great little gadget!

Of course, I've put the footage online

 

[domtyler]

Whoopsie!!! How did that happen btw? Looked pretty dry to me.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Mmmm, early evening dampness coupled with a light covering of road-film or fuel spill?
Freaky! Glad you're mostly OK.

 

[HJ]

Timmy, it does say SLOW in large letters across the road just before where you came off, do you think someone was trying to tell something?

 

[gambatte]

I seem to be basically okay - my right knee took the brunt of it - I've got a nasty big graze on it

Yay!!

Battlescars!!!

 

[yorkshiregoth]

Almost same thing happened to me about 5 months ago, still got the bloomin scars

 

[HLaB]

It must of been the camera , I believe Magnatom videoed an off too with the same camera

 

[Maz]

Ouch!
I suggest you take that camera to a local shaman and get it exorcised.

 

[BentMikey]

Ooh unlucky mate! Here's a bit of virtual compeed for the road rash. Enjoy picking it!

 

[fossyant]

Battle scars - just ride the bike better next time...

 

[PrettyboyTim]

Whoopsie!!! How did that happen btw? Looked pretty dry to me.

Yeah - the road wasn't obviously wet - just a bit damp from rain earlier in the day, and I hadn't really noticed up until then. I also went into the corner a bit faster than usual.

I think I was fairly lucky in that my tracksuit bottoms didn't tear (much) so that the main graze didn't actually contact the road itself, only the inside of my clothing. There's a big patch of rubbed off skin and hair on the inside of them , but at least I didn't have to pick any grit out of my knee.

Anyway, I had the day off work tomorrow anyway, so I can just hobble around at home

 

[fossyant]

Road rash...fantastic !!!!! NOT !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gambatte]

Road rash...fantastic !!!!! NOT !!!!!!!!!!!

Show it off and let people think you're an even bigger loon when you continue commuting!

 

[Terminator]

Nearly fell off the other day when I was busy throwing up.

It's narf firking distracting.

 

[magnatom]

Oh My God! That is scary! It is scary because it was a crash of course, but even scarier because of the similarity to my incident wearing exactly the same camera


Remember Tim won the camera from me!!

I too was ok apart from the road rash.

Very very spooky....

Glad your ok by the way!