Moan

Brian G said:

The weather outside is lovely, for the first time in weeks. I'm sitting
with my right leg up on a pile of cushions, my grossly swollen right
knee encased in an elastic bandage, with no hope of getting up for days,
let alone getting out on a bike.

All my own fault, as usual. A moment's carelessness, coasting down a
rough path towards a litter bin to put a wrapper in, standing on the
SPDs rather than clipped in. Right shoe slipped off the pedal, toe dug
into the path and the bike sailed over my head, leaving me to land knee
first with a thump on a jagged rock. Ouch.

Serves you right ;-)
what do you expect. You should've been wearing a....

Hope you recover soon.

John B

JohnB said:

Brian G said:

The weather outside is lovely, for the first time in weeks. I'm sitting
with my right leg up on a pile of cushions, my grossly swollen right
knee encased in an elastic bandage, with no hope of getting up for days,
let alone getting out on a bike.

All my own fault, as usual. A moment's carelessness, coasting down a
rough path towards a litter bin to put a wrapper in, standing on the
SPDs rather than clipped in. Right shoe slipped off the pedal, toe dug
into the path and the bike sailed over my head, leaving me to land knee
first with a thump on a jagged rock. Ouch.

Serves you right ;-)
what do you expect. You should've been wearing a....

Knee protector? Wouldn't that be encouraging the introduction of
legislation for compulsory knee protection?

--
Brian G

Brian G said:

Knee protector? Wouldn't that be encouraging the introduction of
legislation for compulsory knee protection?

No but on the basis that helmets don't help with head injuries but
reduce leg injuries, perhaps knee protectors will help reduce head injuries

Tony
(who will keep quiet about his luverly sunny ride through Hyde Park and
back today)

Tony

Brian G said:

All my own fault, as usual. A moment's carelessness, coasting down a
rough path towards a litter bin to put a wrapper in, standing on the
SPDs rather than clipped in. Right shoe slipped off the pedal, toe dug
into the path and the bike sailed over my head, leaving me to land knee
first with a thump on a jagged rock. Ouch.

I felt pain just by reading that! Best wishes for a quick recovery.

Alan

Brian G said:

The weather outside is lovely, for the first time in weeks. I'm
sitting with my right leg up on a pile of cushions, my grossly
swollen right knee encased in an elastic bandage, with no hope of
getting up for days, let alone getting out on a bike.

All my own fault, as usual. A moment's carelessness, coasting down a
rough path towards a litter bin to put a wrapper in, standing on the
SPDs rather than clipped in. Right shoe slipped off the pedal, toe
dug into the path and the bike sailed over my head, leaving me to
land knee first with a thump on a jagged rock. Ouch.

That's the kind of injury that people who *don't* put litter in bins
deserve :-)

Hope you're back cycling soon.

~PB

Brian G said:

All my own fault, as usual. A moment's carelessness, coasting down a
rough path towards a litter bin to put a wrapper in, standing on the
SPDs rather than clipped in. Right shoe slipped off the pedal, toe dug
into the path and the bike sailed over my head, leaving me to land knee
first with a thump on a jagged rock. Ouch.

Ouch!

But I don't get it. Your foot got suddenly and unexpectedly held back.
Presumably then the rest of you followed it down as the bike briefly
held something closer to your intended course.

How does that translate into bike over head?

--
Nick Kew

(who did himself an entirely self-inflicted though non-cycling knee
injury last autumn, and was stuck on crutches for a couple of weeks).

Bummer. Rest, heal & grow strong.

Cheers, helen s

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The only witness, an elderly rural, was too busy laughing at my antics to
offer a technical resume of events.

So no marks out of six for technical merit, but what was the score for
artistic interpretation?

Cheers, helen s ;-)

wafflycat <wafflesATv21netDOTcoDOTuk@?.?.invalid> whizzed past me
shouting

Quoted message said:

"Brian G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

The only witness, an elderly rural, was too busy laughing at my
antics to offer a technical resume of events.

So no marks out of six for technical merit, but what was the score for
artistic interpretation?

It sounds as if the witness appreciated it.

In the Reading area he wouldn't normally be considered for a Most
Amusing Crash award if he couldn't walk away from it, but the
involvement of a litter bin probably cancels that out.

I hope it heals quickly Brian, meanwhile keep taking the painkillers!

--
Sue ]🙁🙂

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:43:35 +0100, Brian G <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Right shoe slipped off the pedal, toe dug
into the path and the bike sailed over my head, leaving me to land knee
first with a thump on a jagged rock. Ouch.

It didn't kill you so it will make you stronger. Or wiser. Or
something.

All the best.

in message <[email hidden]>, Brian G

(') said:

The weather outside is lovely, for the first time in weeks. I'm
sitting with my right leg up on a pile of cushions, my grossly swollen
right knee encased in an elastic bandage, with no hope of getting up
for days, let alone getting out on a bike.

All my own fault, as usual. A moment's carelessness, coasting down a
rough path towards a litter bin to put a wrapper in, standing on the
SPDs rather than clipped in. Right shoe slipped off the pedal, toe
dug into the path and the bike sailed over my head, leaving me to land
knee first with a thump on a jagged rock. Ouch.

Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch. Bad luck. Get well soon.

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; All in all you're just another hick in the mall
-- Drink C'lloid

Nick Kew said:

But I don't get it. Your foot got suddenly and unexpectedly held back.
Presumably then the rest of you followed it down as the bike briefly
held something closer to your intended course.

How does that translate into bike over head?

When I were lad, riding my first 10-speed "racer", my left foot slipped
forward off the big shiny steel pedal at the bottom of its stroke and
hit the deck. My right foot was powering down, and thus powered the
left crank into the back of my calf. I flung myself forward so as not
to have my foot severed ;-), hit the bars at an angle, went over them,
and somehow managed to end up flat on my back with the bike across my
legs. Sounds like something similar to the OP.

R.

Richard said:

I flung myself forward so as not to have my foot severed ;-), hit
the bars at an angle, went over them, and somehow managed to end up
flat on my back with the bike across my legs. Sounds like something
similar to the OP.

Not really as he ended up prone rather than supine.

--
Dave...

in message <[email hidden]>, Richard

(') said:

Nick Kew said:

But I don't get it. Your foot got suddenly and unexpectedly held
back. Presumably then the rest of you followed it down as the bike
briefly held something closer to your intended course.

How does that translate into bike over head?

When I were lad, riding my first 10-speed "racer", my left foot
slipped forward off the big shiny steel pedal at the bottom of its
stroke and
hit the deck. My right foot was powering down, and thus powered the
left crank into the back of my calf. I flung myself forward so as
not to have my foot severed ;-), hit the bars at an angle, went over
them, and somehow managed to end up flat on my back with the bike
across my
legs. Sounds like something similar to the OP.

Hah! In my youth, cycling along a narrow road on Orkney on a 'racing'
bike with a four-speed Sturmey Archer (yes, such abominations used to
exist), I had a truck coming up behind me and a car coming towards me.
Where I was the road wasn't wide enough for the truck to get past me
safely, but just a little ahead it widened. So I sprinted to get to the
wide section before I was overtaken. And the Sturmey, being a Sturmey,
slipped out of gear under load, and my foot slipped off the nice chrome
pedal and hit the front wheel...

And I ended up, completely uninjured, in the ditch on one side of the
road; the bike ended up, completely undamaged, in the ditch on the
other side of the road; and the truck and the car whizzed by in
between.

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; Semper in faecibus sumus, sole profundum variat.

Simon Brooke said:

Quoted message said:

When I were lad, riding my first 10-speed "racer", my left foot
slipped forward off the big shiny steel pedal at the bottom of its
stroke and
hit the deck.

Quoted message said:

my foot slipped off the nice chrome
pedal and hit the front wheel...

And we look back in horror at steel rims in the rain - maybe it's the
steel/chrome pedals that were even more of a nightmare ;-)

R.

Thanks everyone for the good wishes. The resting goes well, with
swelling down from medium melon size to grapefruit size.

I'm also getting to read lots of the stuff that's been accumulating for
ages.

--
Brian G