When I read it first, I felt it was too bad, and that I should edit it...even though it was a tragedy!Oh my God I've just read your short story. Gulp. Don't even want to think about something like that happening.
When I read it first, I felt it was too bad, and that I should edit it...even though it was a tragedy!Oh my God I've just read your short story. Gulp. Don't even want to think about something like that happening.
Ouch!Tearing down a long off road descent on my mountain bike to find a fallen tree across the path. Tried to jump it but it was too big, front wheel hit it and that's about the last bit I remember. I was a bit of a mess, not sure how I got home 'cos I still had a fair way to go. Wife tried to get me to go to A&E, but I said I would be ok, but then started to pass blood and thought that A&E would be a good idea.
Bike was mostly ok, just a bent hanger and a few other bits and bobs.
Nothing. The doc just took some blood and sent me home, I never heard anything more. He said the blood in my wee was probably just from the heavy fall. I was very sore after but no lasting damage was done.Ouch!
So, what did they find at A & E?
That's insane! How are David and Paul now?Made the mistake of racing three other friends to see who could go the fastest down a long steep decent, lead rider got into a speed wobble, lost control and wiped the rest of us out
RESULT
Lots of road rash (all four of us)
Lots of claret (all four of us)
one broken ankle (me)
one broken arm (david)
two knocked out (david and paul)
Three ambulances
40 minutes before the first ambulance arrived (in an age of no mobile phones, just broken phone booths)
Months of recovery
Two bikes never recovered (never knew what happened to them)
Never done that again!
That's insane! How are David and Paul now?
I can top that - link!OK, if we're allowed to recount other people's worst cycling experiences, when ah wuz a wee lad I remember going cycling on the local common with my mum. She went down this grassy hill like they did in that Anchor butter advert 30 years ago, legs out and 'wheeeee!' She didn't realise that there was a little narrow brook at the bottom and her front wheel went in and hurled her over the bars, in a very unceremonious face-plant. I thought she'd broken her neck, it was a lot less funny than it might sound.