slipped on ice fractured wrist

[Aperitif]

Got round to ordering some new wheels easton EA90 SLX, they've just turned up.

Ooooooooh! stevevw alert...fit the rubber bumpers!

These wheels were £388pr at Wiggle in August 08 - hope you got a bargain Dave.

 

[topcat1]

I was robbed!

 

[arallsopp]

Hmmm... What to go with. Twisting your arm to take them, or losing money hand over fist...

 

[topcat1]

These wheels were £388pr at Wiggle in August 08 - hope you got a bargain Dave.

Those were last years wheels, i've got the (pay more for less weight) new r4 ceramic wheels.

 

[Aperitif]

Those were last years wheels, i've got the (pay more for less weight) new r4 ceramic wheels.

Ah, they're the ones that come with the target built in, so that the Ribble 'cat seeking missile' can score a direct hit!

(You'll notice I put '08' in my OP Dave...just teasing! )

 

[Sam Kennedy]

What's with this getting grounded/punished/bikes smashed for getting hurt?
It's called an ACCIDENT, it's not like you got up in the morning and said 'yay, lets go fall off my bike'.

IMHO Pretty bad parenting

*hides*

 

[Campfire]

Poor you!

 

[Aperitif]

What's with this getting grounded/punished/bikes smashed for getting hurt?
It's called an ACCIDENT, it's not like you got up in the morning and said 'yay, lets go fall off my bike'.

IMHO Pretty bad parenting

*hides*

You think that is bad parenting. Every Saturday night, Topcat's Dad gets him tipsy on rum and sends him out on his own in London - the rough bit...to find his own way home. That's good parenting - his Dad gets to keep more rum on the premises!

 

[mossy]

Bad luck Dave.
Hope you recover quickly.

 

[topcat1]

You think that is bad parenting. Every Saturday night, Topcat's Dad gets him tipsy on rum

That's right, it's the "saturday nite rum club" the wrist is healing well. I've just read Andys' seeya L-E-L thread, he should've got a Knighthood for that.

I'm glad i've still got a couple of weeks off.

 

[02GF74]

What's with this getting grounded/punished/bikes smashed for getting hurt?
It's called an ACCIDENT, it's not like you got up in the morning and said 'yay, lets go fall off my bike'.

read first post: Out today round the corner from richmond park ,black ice the bike just slipped out from me, next thing i know i'm on the ground still holding the handle bars.

I interpret this as the OP went out on the bike when it was pretty cold, freezing in fact, and the possibility of ice on the road.

Orcourse the OP did not intend to fall off and casued bodily damage to oneself but ice has a low coefficient of friction friction so the accident could have been easily avoided.

Many years when I was younger, I cycled 7 miles thorugh horrendous ice on slick tyres and made it all the way to the works carpark., I turn across the road and in the centre was a raised lump of ice that caused me to fall very heavily on my right hip. Pretty sure something broke in side as the joint will click when moving my right leg as when walking up a steep hill.

since then I avoid goiong out on ice.