Black Ice, Black Bruises....

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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    OUCH...happened to me this morning...sorry but your film made me laugh :lol: ...unless it is very serious there is a lot of comedy attached to falling off a bike...I hope you weren't hurt...I am very stiff down one side and my knee is the size of a cricket ball...
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • TiNuts
    TiNuts Posts: 89
    Yes, I have to agree - you have to laugh, especially when viewing on video. Nothing broken but am limping considerably as left thigh took the brunt of it. Amazingly, no clothing destroyed - perhaps a benefit of coming off on the ice? Will purchase parrot as soon as I can.
  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...me to, grazed skin, blood, but no damage to clothing...I do wonder why the driver that witnessed my dive didn't even lower her window to check I was ok...but hey ho... :roll: perhaps she couldn't stop for laughing...
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    :lol: i like the comment at the end :shock:
    Anyhoo yes i slid off the other morning whilst hardly moving v.embarassing, eyes forward, didn't happen, no-ones laughing etc
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  • AndyManc
    AndyManc Posts: 1,393
    I didn't laugh :? , and when did youtube go widescreen.

    I came off 3 times on black ice on motorbikes, I lay there one morning with a CB 500 on top of me thinking .... this can't be right.

    I'm hoping my fat mtb tyres (and going slow) will save me from the winters worst. :roll:
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  • TiNuts
    TiNuts Posts: 89
    I doubt he's reading this, but an exceptionally nice pedestrian saw the whole thing and came over to offer assistance: helped me up (after I'd stopped groaning in the road), wheeled my bike over onto the pavement and stuck around to make sure I was OK. A friendly biker also stopped as did another passing ped. Diamond people so my thanks goes out to them!

    Oh, and then a 4x4 driver with a mobile phone clamped to their ear saw what had happened, mounted the pavement and tried to finish me off......

    Oh, OK so I made that last bit up.......
  • topcat33
    topcat33 Posts: 57
    Ouch! I can sympathize, I hit the deck three times last week. The ice was a bit thicker and a bit softer than the road though.

    It's a funny feeling, lying on the floor at 6am!

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