Oops, first accident of 2004

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About £180 worth of clothing down the drain, the Ambrosio now looks very
'weathered', and I need to grow about 20 square cm of skin pretty
quickly (might see if I can buy some on eBay!). Trials and tribulations
of Winter cycling eh!

Ouch - speedy recovery Mark. I see your Livestrong wristband took the brunt
of the damage ;-)
Get well soon.

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Simon M.

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About £180 worth of clothing down the drain, the Ambrosio now looks very
'weathered', and I need to grow about 20 square cm of skin pretty
quickly (might see if I can buy some on eBay!). Trials and tribulations
of Winter cycling eh!

Ouch - speedy recovery Mark. I see your Livestrong wristband took the brunt
of the damage ;-)

No. The wristband failed catastrophically. It didn't do its job.

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Ouch - speedy recovery Mark. I see your Livestrong wristband took the
brunt
of the damage ;-)

No. The wristband failed catastrophically. It didn't do its job.

Well, it split so it could have acted like car's crumple zone by absorbing
the impact in destroying itself ;-)

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Simon M.

MSA said:

A BMW X5 braked heavily when he saw me fall and slide, Alan was behind
the car at the time, braked, couldn't stop and ended up ploughing into
the back of him! No damage to Alan, his bike or the X5 so all OK...the
guy did offer to take me to hospital but I declined.

Well, that drives a coach and horses through all the stereotypes of
Beemer drivers then :-(

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Ouch - speedy recovery Mark. I see your Livestrong wristband took the
brunt
of the damage ;-)

No. The wristband failed catastrophically. It didn't do its job.

Well, it split so it could have acted like car's crumple zone by absorbing
the impact in destroying itself ;-)

Livestrong braclets are designed to work by plastic deformation, not by
breaking, as any fule kno.

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Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/
"Can I do you now, sir?"

Ouchie!

if you have difficulty walking in the morning, get thee to a doc & get checked
over. In any event doc might even be nice and prescribe you something a bit
stronger than ibuprofen to reduce swelling.

Cheers, helen s

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MSA said:

I was a bit dazed but the guys I was with (one of them went down too but
was OK) took me to a local cafe where I had some hot sweet tea, and
apparently they watched the colour come back into my face :o)

Hope you have no complications. Th'ospital might be able to put some of
that temporary skin over your wounds. I'd go along anyway.

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Ouchie!

if you have difficulty walking in the morning, get thee to a doc & get checked
over. In any event doc might even be nice and prescribe you something a bit
stronger than ibuprofen to reduce swelling.

Cheers, helen s

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Most annoying thing is I have booked the next 2 days off from work...one
for Christmas shopping, the other for a decent ride out. I'm guessing I
won't be able to move in the morning so both of the above will probably
be out of the window :-(
Sitting here watching the bruise change colour as I type :-)

Like the signature by the way Helen, unfortunately the light at the end
of the tunnel in my organization was always an on-coming train!

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On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:49:12 -0000, MSA <[email hidden]>

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was going around the roundabout at the bottom of Gravel Lane.

Sorry, you lost it on a corner at the end of Gravel Lane? How
appropriate🙂

MSA said:

Most annoying thing is I have booked the next 2 days off from work...one
for Christmas shopping, the other for a decent ride out. I'm guessing I
won't be able to move in the morning so both of the above will probably
be out of the window :-(

Make sure you try to reclaim the holiday allowance, after all you would
have been off sick had you not planned the time off.

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Most annoying thing is I have booked the next 2 days off from work...one
for Christmas shopping, the other for a decent ride out.

This is why you came off your bike. Sod's Law when you've got time booked off
work ;-Þ

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I'm guessing I
won't be able to move in the morning so both of the above will probably
be out of the window :-(
Sitting here watching the bruise change colour as I type :-)

You really should get it checked over. Was there anything slippy on the road
where you came off?

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Like the signature by the way Helen, unfortunately the light at the end
of the tunnel in my organization was always an on-coming train!

Cor, thanks! ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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...and I've
taken a lot of
skin off my right arm and thigh. I've just got out of the most
painful shower I've ever had, trying to pick pieces of road out of the
wounds! I can't walk properly at the moment but I think that's just
the bruising coming out where I hit it hard on the ground.

Ouch ouch ouch! Bad luck!

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MSA said:

Bad news, had an accident on the bike this morning :-( I'm kind of OK
though!

Basically the bike slipped from under me on a roundabout at 36kph
(according to my Polar computer that stopped as I departed from the
bike!). I slide about 4 metres along the ground and stopped when I
hit a kerb stone. I've ripped to pieces my boot covers, shorts,
bib-tights, cycling shirt, gloves, gillet and arm warmers...and I've
taken a lot of skin off my right arm and thigh. I've just got out of
the most painful shower I've ever had, trying to pick pieces of road
out of the wounds! I can't walk properly at the moment but I think
that's just the bruising coming out where I hit it hard on the ground.

Not you as well! Take it easy and get better soon. Probably is just
bruising but a checkup wouldn't be a bad idea.

It's funny, I got very little grazing/bruising/clothing-and-bike-damage
from my slip but broke a bone :-(

~PB

OUCH!! Bad news indeed mate!!

My missus had a similar kind of crash at 25mph here in SoCal, she was wearing a tube-top cycling jersey and removed some massive amounts of skin...she also cracked her helmet in 2 places...

She was carted off by the Paramedics because she had suspected head trauma, luckily she "only" had concussion for 3 weeks..suspected broken hand and arm as well...

Anyway, I'm now an expert at treating abrasions...the screams and crying in the shower as she held my "Back wheels" and said "we're not going to hurt each other are we"????? still ring in my ears... hahahaha!!

But seriously, you HAVE to clean the abrasions REALLY well...however painfull it is...luckily a Nurse at the ER did this for my wife...but if you don't do it now you'll risk an infection and have to do it later...

Then, keep the abrasions moist at all times...slather Neostporin (The one with pain reliever) on, cover with a surgical pad, I found it was best to wrap the pad in place with a bandage...otherwise the removal of the band aids every day can be a pain...literally...

The well known myth of removing the dressing to "Let it dry out" is indeed a myth....you need to keep the wounds moistened with Neosporin and covered for at least 14 Days...just remove everything and rinse off in the shower with anti-bactarial liquid soap every day, pat dry and re-apply everything immediately afterwards...if you try and let the wounds dry out they will, they'll also leave more of a scar and itch like mad before they start to crack...

Good luck mate!!

MSA said:

Bad news, had an accident on the bike this morning :-( I'm kind of OK
though!

Basically the bike slipped from under me on a roundabout at 36kph
(according to my Polar computer that stopped as I departed from the
bike!). I slide about 4 metres along the ground and stopped when I hit
a kerb stone. I've ripped to pieces my boot covers, shorts, bib-tights,
cycling shirt, gloves, gillet and arm warmers...and I've taken a lot of
skin off my right arm and thigh. I've just got out of the most painful
shower I've ever had, trying to pick pieces of road out of the wounds!
I can't walk properly at the moment but I think that's just the bruising
coming out where I hit it hard on the ground.

I've bent the handlebars on the Ambrosio, scuffed the side of the Ergo
lever, ripped the handlebar tape, scrapped a lot of metal from the pedal
and there is a light scrape on the rear derailleur. Apart from the bars
it is all cosmetic. Oh, and somehow I snapped the rubber Lance
'Livestrong' yellow band I was wearing, God knows how because it was
under my clothing.

I was a bit dazed but the guys I was with (one of them went down too but
was OK) took me to a local cafe where I had some hot sweet tea, and
apparently they watched the colour come back into my face :o)

Shouldn't laugh but it was quite funny the way the other guy went down.
A BMW X5 braked heavily when he saw me fall and slide, Alan was behind
the car at the time, braked, couldn't stop and ended up ploughing into
the back of him! No damage to Alan, his bike or the X5 so all OK...the
guy did offer to take me to hospital but I declined.

About £180 worth of clothing down the drain, the Ambrosio now looks very
'weathered', and I need to grow about 20 square cm of skin pretty
quickly (might see if I can buy some on eBay!). Trials and tribulations
of Winter cycling eh!

The roads were very damp this morning, and for those of you that know
the area (Essex) I had just passed the Epping Country Club on my left
and was going around the roundabout at the bottom of Gravel Lane. The
roads seemed extra slippery too, we even noticed afterwards as we
climbed the hill from Abridge to Theydon Bois that our back wheels were
slipping when we got out of the saddle. It's a small roundabout and I
was planning on taking a fairly straight line through, with the other 5
guys following me. Because I was aware of the X5 behind at the last
minute (he was trying to overtake us), I took a wider line than usual on
the roundabout and I think I hit a few ripple in the surface which
'lightened' the bike and caused both wheels to slip away.

Who's fault? Mine. OK, it wouldn't have happened if the X5 wasn't
trying to overtake us as we approached the roundabout (he was virtually
alongside as we entered the roundabout), but I should have been going
slower I guess.

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Mark (MSA)

Jaguar27 said:

The well known myth of removing the dressing to "Let it dry out" is
indeed a myth....you need to keep the wounds moistened with Neosporin
and covered for at least 14 Days...just remove everything and rinse
off in the shower with anti-bactarial liquid soap every day, pat dry
and re-apply everything immediately afterwards...if you try and let
the wounds dry out they will, they'll also leave more of a scar and
itch like mad before they start to crack..

What are scabs for then?

~PB

Pete Biggs said:

Jaguar27 said:

The well known myth of removing the dressing to "Let it dry out" is
indeed a myth....you need to keep the wounds moistened with Neosporin
and covered for at least 14 Days...just remove everything and rinse
off in the shower with anti-bactarial liquid soap every day, pat dry
and re-apply everything immediately afterwards...if you try and let
the wounds dry out they will, they'll also leave more of a scar and
itch like mad before they start to crack..

What are scabs for then?

~PB

I am not a medic. Scabs are natures way of protecting the wounds but
doesn't work well for large areas of skin that needs to flex. Much
better to heal from the inside first rather than the outside.

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MSA said:

bike!). I slide about 4 metres along the ground and stopped when I hit
a kerb stone. I've ripped to pieces my boot covers, shorts, bib-tights,

Ouch. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Must be the bibtights. You got a slabbing by proxy.

--
Nick Kew

Pete Biggs said:

What are scabs for then?

Take your pick ;-)

Tony

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MSA said:

I was a bit dazed but the guys I was with (one of them went down too but
was OK) took me to a local cafe where I had some hot sweet tea, and
apparently they watched the colour come back into my face :o)

Hope you have no complications. Th'ospital might be able to put some of
that temporary skin over your wounds. I'd go along anyway.

Can they do that?

I have quite pronounced scaring/skin discolouration on my elbow from what
appeared to be a minor friction burn/road rash. It didn't seem to be a bad
injury at the time but because it damaged a large area of skin it took a
long time to heal