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  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    He're the Strava segment I came off on:

    http://app.strava.com/activities/27069205#485320449 - If you click the performance tab on the graph you can see I was doing 27mph according to strava

    Still managed to get a PR on the way back up the hill, and a 4th on a segment I've been targeting for ages as my legs were fresh despite the crash :lol:http://app.strava.com/activities/27069205
  • #david2012
    #david2012 Posts: 275
    Wardster00 wrote:
    The fields are so wet at the moment that the tractors have made a right mess of the roads and they are almost impassable in places. I've seen a few people nearly lose it in a car.

    Second that!! Mud on road signs are an understatement :evil:
  • esdavey
    esdavey Posts: 19
    Captainlip said "bought a paraglider with no lessons." - love it !!

    I fell off a motorbike at 80mph+ trying to avoid rabbits but leathers saved my skin. Just remember rolling seeing sky-road-sky-road-sky !
  • AlexMac1973
    AlexMac1973 Posts: 406
    Don't think there's anything worse than getting caught out by black ice (or any ice for that matter), luckily it's not something we regularly get in cornwall but growing up in the north it was a pain in the rrrr's.

    I crashed out the other week so I feel for you, mine was due to running water and a nasty corner on a 40mph decent. Just completely washed out and had no control, like feelgoodlost said you see something and know it's about to go badly wrong. I lost a chunk out of my shoes and went through several layers of foot skin, still haven't been back on a bike for the last 4 weeks.

    Good luck with getting better.
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  • Phil Fouracre
    Phil Fouracre Posts: 207
    Sorry - should have added smiley - not a competition, just bored on the net book. Met a guy in intensive care with me who had done a fair bit of damage coming off his brand new road bike - leg, ribs, pelvis etc and I thought paragliding was the dangerous sport. As he said the other day, it's bloody boring when you're laid up for ages with nothing to do. No, it wasn't buying a paraglider with no lessons, might have been better if it had been. Flying a competition model in radical conditions, complete blow out at low level - even thirty yeas experience couldn't cope with that :(
  • Buckie2k5
    Buckie2k5 Posts: 600
    ESDavey wrote:
    Captainlip said "Just remember rolling seeing sky-road-sky-road-sky !


    its funny u say that i got knocked down on my bike when i was a lad (24 yrs ago am i that old now) and after bouncing off the windscreen to this day i can still remember my tumble. sky, bus shelter, sky, bus shelter.... eventually coming to a stop half way in the shelter.
  • feelgoodlost
    feelgoodlost Posts: 337
    Well my bruise is getting increasingly bigger and purple'r! Not sure if it means it's healing when it starts to go purple?!

    I'm heading out this Saturday on a 100 mile ride with a couple of mates. I'm fairly confident the weather will be fine but the thought of more ice is doing nothing for my enthusiasm.

    I'm not sure there's a way to avoid injury with oncoming ice. You're screwed if you brake and screwed if you don't :(
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  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    feelgoodlost wrote:
    Well my bruise is getting increasingly bigger and purple'r! Not sure if it means it's healing when it starts to go purple?!

    I'm heading out this Saturday on a 100 mile ride with a couple of mates. I'm fairly confident the weather will be fine but the thought of more ice is doing nothing for my enthusiasm.

    I'm not sure there's a way to avoid injury with oncoming ice. You're screwed if you brake and screwed if you don't :(


    at least you're screwed at a slightly lower speed if you brake?
  • feelgoodlost
    feelgoodlost Posts: 337
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    feelgoodlost wrote:
    Well my bruise is getting increasingly bigger and purple'r! Not sure if it means it's healing when it starts to go purple?!

    I'm heading out this Saturday on a 100 mile ride with a couple of mates. I'm fairly confident the weather will be fine but the thought of more ice is doing nothing for my enthusiasm.

    I'm not sure there's a way to avoid injury with oncoming ice. You're screwed if you brake and screwed if you don't :(


    at least you're screwed at a slightly lower speed if you brake?

    Hmmm... all depends how good your brakes are!! Still don't think it would make that much difference if your wheel is already sliding out from under you. I don't know if I actually pulled on the brakes as I went round the corner. Don't think I was going quick enough...
    https://www.strava.com/athletes/442763
  • seanorawe
    seanorawe Posts: 950
    Clothes and gear can be replaced. As long as no one gets seriously hurt, thats the main thing
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  • thefd
    thefd Posts: 1,021
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    He're the Strava segment I came off on:

    http://app.strava.com/activities/27069205#485320449 - If you click the performance tab on the graph you can see I was doing 27mph according to strava
    Your time for the segment was 7:24 with a crash in the middle. Some dude took 56:49 for the same segment. He must of had a really bad crash or stopped for his tea half way along or he is just rubbish!!
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  • mustgettaller
    mustgettaller Posts: 120
    feelgoodlost wrote:
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    feelgoodlost wrote:
    Well my bruise is getting increasingly bigger and purple'r! Not sure if it means it's healing when it starts to go purple?!

    I'm heading out this Saturday on a 100 mile ride with a couple of mates. I'm fairly confident the weather will be fine but the thought of more ice is doing nothing for my enthusiasm.

    I'm not sure there's a way to avoid injury with oncoming ice. You're screwed if you brake and screwed if you don't :(


    at least you're screwed at a slightly lower speed if you brake?

    Hmmm... all depends how good your brakes are!! Still don't think it would make that much difference if your wheel is already sliding out from under you. I don't know if I actually pulled on the brakes as I went round the corner. Don't think I was going quick enough...

    In my experience, it happens too quickly to brake! Had a formation 'off' on MTBs several years ago. I was just thinking "Why's John on his side?" when I was down too. Interesting thing here was that the ice was so bad that we could only just stand up on it, and urgently got off the road as we anticipated a car coming round the corner next and totally losing it.

    More recently, slowed down for mud/slurry on the road, and next thing I was on my side with a cracked helmet and a patch of skin removed from the top of my shoulder - bike had whipped out from under me so quickly I'd rotated that far. Oh yes, and my riding partner that day proceeded to observe me carefully as he thought I was about to lapse into unconsciousness after my 'head injury' (pretty sure he was about to start evaluating me against the Glasgow Coma Scale!). No way - we had another 30 miles to ride home.

    Luckily both of these at much lower speed than you. Hope you mend soon - enjoy your 100 miler!
  • ShutUpLegs
    ShutUpLegs Posts: 3,522
    My car has an indicator when it gets below 3 degrees that says 'ICY'. Is there anything available for the bike?
  • mustgettaller
    mustgettaller Posts: 120
    ShutUpLegs wrote:
    My car has an indicator when it gets below 3 degrees that says 'ICY'. Is there anything available for the bike?
    Well, my Garmin 800 has a thermometer - and it was reading between 3 and 0 centigrade this morning as I cycled in to work. As a result, I rode more gingerly around the narrow, windy lanes! However, to be honest I already knew it was cold (the numbness in my fingers under full-finger gloves was one hint).

    Does anyone know of cheaper bike computers with thermometers on them? As I say above, though, not sure how much more information it gives us because we can feel how cold it is!
  • twoshots
    twoshots Posts: 58
    Doesn't have to be ice. I fell last nght on what I think was diesel on a corner at the bottom of a hill. I was about to go up the hill, not just come down, so things could have been worse. Damn trucks giving it some gas to get up the hill cover the road in diesel and in the dark I just didn't have a clue till I hit the deck.

    Still crying at the cost to my kit and hubling round the office.

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  • orangepip
    orangepip Posts: 219
    yep pretty much done it all when it comes to coming off due to stuff on the road. Diesel, ice, black ice, rain, dog poo, mud... the wife uses it to try and persuade me to knock it in but I don't. The worst one was where there was a sheet of black ice from one side of the road to the other. I came off and slid for about 10 meters before I managed to stop myself. Then even in my mtb shoes I couldn't stand on the ice and did various pratfalls trying to get on to the pavement...

    Sadly it was all under the gaze of a bust stop full of people :-(
  • Team4Luke
    Team4Luke Posts: 597
    danowat wrote:
    Let this be a lesson to those who think it's brave and manly to ride when there's a risk of ice, it's not brave, it's not manly, I learnt the hard way too........

    Glad you aren't too badly hurt, I've know people to bust hips and pelvis's coming off in the ice........

    well said. Gobsmacking how many riders/club rides continue to keep doing what they do every weekend without a thought to black ice or slightest possiblity of same, the distance covered will incude a variety of temperatures.
    I have my own golden rule, my car sits outside, if it's frosted then no go simple.
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  • CambsNewbie
    CambsNewbie Posts: 564
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    He're the Strava segment I came off on:

    http://app.strava.com/activities/27069205#485320449 - If you click the performance tab on the graph you can see I was doing 27mph according to strava

    Still managed to get a PR on the way back up the hill, and a 4th on a segment I've been targeting for ages as my legs were fresh despite the crash :lol:http://app.strava.com/activities/27069205

    Amazing what a large dose of adrenalin pumping through your blood can do!
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    CambsNewbie wrote:
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    He're the Strava segment I came off on:

    http://app.strava.com/activities/27069205#485320449 - If you click the performance tab on the graph you can see I was doing 27mph according to strava

    Still managed to get a PR on the way back up the hill, and a 4th on a segment I've been targeting for ages as my legs were fresh despite the crash :lol:http://app.strava.com/activities/27069205

    Amazing what a large dose of adrenalin pumping through your blood can do!

    When I'm back in Cambs over christmas I'll be crashing every day to get some segments :lol:
  • CambsNewbie
    CambsNewbie Posts: 564
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    CambsNewbie wrote:
    ALIHISGREAT wrote:
    He're the Strava segment I came off on:

    http://app.strava.com/activities/27069205#485320449 - If you click the performance tab on the graph you can see I was doing 27mph according to strava

    Still managed to get a PR on the way back up the hill, and a 4th on a segment I've been targeting for ages as my legs were fresh despite the crash :lol:http://app.strava.com/activities/27069205

    Amazing what a large dose of adrenalin pumping through your blood can do!

    When I'm back in Cambs over christmas I'll be crashing every day to get some segments :lol:

    I can jump out in front of you if you want... Or push you off!

    I'm struggling to get any decent riding time at the moment although managed twice this week. It's amazing how quickly I lose my 'cycling' fitness. Must be getting old :(
  • rtjdesign
    rtjdesign Posts: 30
    I came off last sunday managed to roll through a dodgy looking puddle no problem and them my bike just slid under me, face first landed on my teeth, chin and nose. Smashed my knee in, strained my arm and shoulder.

    I learnt from it! Black ice is a no go area on slicks, just very happy there was nothing coming behind me at the time.

    My visit to A&E to get checked over was ok, nothing broken just sore for a while and the dentist said i've only cracked the enamel on my tooth as my retainer may of helped in the impact.
  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    orangepip wrote:
    Sadly it was all under the gaze of a bust stop full of people :-(

    You have BUST stops by you? Are these female breast's that you can just stop to look at and admire? No wonder you fell off! :shock:
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