Ouch

[Dangermouse]

Thursday evening I decided to have a quickie up the very steep hill in Scunny, all was going well till the last (very steep) bit and my chain decides it needs a rest so whilst under pressure, comes off ............ no warning, and I am lying at the side of the road with road rash on my knee, elbow and shoulder, luckily there was no people to laugh at me, now two days later and I have what feels like a cricked neck and the bruising is coming out all down my thigh.
If this is a low speed off................I dont want a fast one like the guys in the TdF......JEEZ

 

[inkd]

Might be worth getting your neck checked out and hope you heal up with no problems. watching some of those crashes on TDF and they get up and back on bike, proper professionals unlike footballers that fall over at the slightest whim.

 

[Dangermouse]

The guys riding in any of the big races have my utmost respect............riding on with broken bones.

 

[welsh dragon]

Hi DM. As inkd said. Maybe worth while getting yourself checked out. You seem to be in the wars a bit lately. Hope your all right.

 

[surfdude]

unlike most people who get broken bones the professionals get the drugs before they hurt themselves

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Thursday evening I decided to have a quickie up the very steep hill in Scunny, all was going well till the last (very steep) bit and my chain decides it needs a rest so whilst under pressure, comes off ............ no warning, and I am lying at the side of the road with road rash on my knee, elbow and shoulder, luckily there was no people to laugh at me, now two days later and I have what feels like a cricked neck and the bruising is coming out all down my thigh.
If this is a low speed off................I dont want a fast one like the guys in the TdF......JEEZ

Last year when doing the Selby Sportive I pulled into a side road at about 2 miles an hour and hit the deck on gravel, the result was a broken rib and a mess made of my arm and leg I couldn't believe it I was barely moving but it seems the handlebar had punched me in the rib

 

[Blue]

Thursday evening I decided to have a quickie up the very steep hill in Scunny, all was going well till the last (very steep) bit and my chain decides it needs a rest so whilst under pressure, comes off ............ no warning, and I am lying at the side of the road with road rash on my knee, elbow and shoulder, luckily there was no people to laugh at me, now two days later and I have what feels like a cricked neck and the bruising is coming out all down my thigh.
If this is a low speed off................I dont want a fast one like the guys in the TdF......JEEZ

Sounds a bit like whiplash! I hope you heal quickly.

Reminds me of a couple of years ago when I was honking up a long moderate hill at full steam and my chain actually broke on the steepest section thereof. I was lucky enough to be near a hedge and had enough momentum to lunge into said hedge and escape with nothing more than a few scrapes - I even managed to stay upright as the hedge acted like a bikerack for the front wheel!!

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I was lucky when mine let go a few years ago on a steep climb, I toppled onto the grass verge and escaped with no damage to anything but my dignity.

Even luckier as I was wheeling my bike the rest of the way to the top to try and get a mobile signal when a guy in a car pulled up and turned out to be a cyclist who very kindly gave me a lift home.

 

[Dangermouse]

Well can you believe it........lightning does strike twice, myself and Eileen decided to go out for a few hours and we had another chain off moment, this time Eileen was pulling out of a side road, onto a busy A road and the chain came off the big ring, skipped the granny ring and wrapped itself around the BB .......off she went, but not onto her bad knee thankfully, I stopped in the middle of the lane waving to warn drivers until she picked herself up and got over the road, but only her pride suffered any damage and we carried on further for another 3hrs without anything else to report................apart from its bloody hot out there today.

 

[welsh dragon]

Well can you believe it........lightning does strike twice, myself and Eileen decided to go out for a few hours and we had another chain off moment, this time Eileen was pulling out of a side road, onto a busy A road and the chain came off the big ring, skipped the granny ring and wrapped itself around the BB .......off she went, but not onto her bad knee thankfully, I stopped in the middle of the lane waving to warn drivers until she picked herself up and got over the road, but only her pride suffered any damage and we carried on further for another 3hrs without anything else to report................apart from its bloody hot out there today.

You two are bloomin dangerous to be around I think.