Location: Philly on one side, Pittsburgh on another, the Green Between...
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So I decided to get out and ride today. The weather has been in the low 50s and raining, but it started to clear (Pennsylvania). I thought I could get a quick 20 miler in and call it a day, especially since I was feeling sick this week and had been couped up a little too long--started getting a little stir-crazy.
Anyway, I started out and the legs felt GREAT! Some time off definitely agreed with them. I was doing pretty good time on a hilly, winding section and it started to rain again. I turned around and headed back toward my car as the road got slicker. I came around a turn at a pretty good clip, but not outrageously fast, even considering the rain...but there was debris in the road....namely crushed corn cobs. I tried to brake and the water on the rims renedered the brakes ineefective.
Everything started moving in slow motion. I hit a corn cob and went into my slide. I slid off the side of the road and into a field. I went up and over the handle bars. As I went down, my left lag hit pavement and torqued my body up over the handle bars sideways, hitting my left quad squarely on the handlebar. I launched free and clear of the bike and landed a good 8 feet from it. I got up and took inventory. Stiff. Bleeding on left knee and right elbow. Nothing broken...thank God! The last 4 miles in the rain back to my car were really tough.
Got home, took a very hot tub and a bunch of painkillers. Right now I feel okay. Not great, but okay. The real test will be tomorrow morning...and explaining to people how I got wiped out by a freakin' corn cob....
Fish, sorry to read about this. How are you feeling today? How's the road rash? Keep it clean and hoepfully hair free (otherwise it tends to get infected and take longer to heal).
Location: Philly on one side, Pittsburgh on another, the Green Between...
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Everything is okay--thanks for the good thoughts. I was stiff, but I iced the day of the accident and the next day as well, and I think it made a big difference. Still, I have a melon-sized bruise on my right quad that will be there for a while, and I'm pretty stiff. I was wearing legwarmers that kept the road-rash to a minimum. Thanks again for the thoguhts...
Reminds me of a crash I had on a psuedo moto-cross course that I was completely unfamiliar with. Well I soon found out that after a pretty good jump there where some moguls (not sure what they call them in moto-cross) hit the first one with my front tire and the bike leaped through the air landed partially on top of me and the rear de-railer broke and managed to take some spokes out as well. I had just bought the bike a few days before that so I made up some story and they fixed/replaced free of charge! No injuries other than pride luckily. Hope that your quad gets to feeling better soon I would stretch it out freqently and massage it to get the blood flow to the area up.
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