Some of you have undoubtedly seen the two or three threads that I made
requesting a ride while I was in New York, and well, I went on my first
MUni ride with Adam (JustOneWheel) and his buddy Jeff (shibumi, I
believe). It was a great trail, the Greenbelt, and totally different
from anything I'd ever done before. My mother accompanied us on
mountainbike, and I borrowed Adam's KH24 (my 20" would never have
worked for this type of terrain and distance). I had my first
experience with a Coker, and it was great. I was suprised at how well
Adam and Jeff managed MUni with a Coker! On one of the final stretches
of the trail, after we'd covered about 3-4miles of uphill, downhill,
switchbacks, drops, roots, skinnies, and just uneven surfaces, I UPD'd
down a particularly narrow bit of trail. I was in the lead and I went
over a drop that was smaller than others that we'd done earlier, but
something happened and I bounced off the seat and, in the process of
trying to regain control, I launched myself forward off the unicycle on
the downstroke and flew a couple feet before I could no longer control
my feet and fell. Putting one's hands out to catch oneself is a reflex,
so I slid on my right shoulder and stubbed my right ring finger. It
swelled up almost immediately and seared with pain. Adam administered
the 'stretch test' and we all rode back to the car thinking that I had
just hyperextended a tendon, and thats what the constant sickening
cracking sensation was. Back at his house he made me a 'custom ice
pack' which really helped to alleviate the pain for a few hours. Our
flight out of NY was at 8:20pm that night, so I had to ask a flight
attendant for some more ice after my initial packs melted. Since it was
after midnight when we finally got home, and since New Year's Eve and
New Year's Day are holidays our local Medicenter was closed, and
because I didn't want to wait in line for five hours at the hospital, I
went for an X-ray today and found that it wasn't my ring finger that
was broken, like I had thought, but the bone under it (the fourth
metacarpal).
I have a splint that covers my forearm, wrist, and metacarpus until I
get the bone re-set (:eek🙂 and casted tomorrow morning at 9:30am.
No unicycling for 4-6 weeks :o 🙁
(X-ray pics will be scanned and uploaded if anyone so desires to see
them 😄)
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burjzyntski
It's no good being Polish unless you prove it once a day.
\"every silver lining has a touch of gray.\"
"In summary: You want to make sure your Koxx is hard enough before you
start drilling."
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