I survived my first crash!!
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2010-07-02 7:55 PM |
Extreme Veteran 412 Panama City | Subject: I survived my first crash!! So today, we went out to beach side over in panama city beach, fl b/c they have a nice bike path along the beach. It goes through a couple of really nice beach towns where pedestrian traffic picks up on the bike path and the path has more turns. long story short, i was on the front leading my buddy around a sharp bend at about 17mph or so and OH NO!!! there was about a 3 year old girl riding a tricycle in the middle of the path! and to make matters worse, its a rock wall on one side and a row of hedges on the left between myself and the road. Being the citizen i am, lol, i chose to not take out the little pigtailed sweetheart and headed for the bushes. my bike stopped, i didn't...lol. i went clear over the handle bars, hit hard, tuck and roll. I landed a few feet passed the girl. I can now see she was following what seemed to be her grandmother who turns around to see a strange man standing next to her grandaughter with a helmet, but no bike. she looks at me like some sort of pedifile pervert and says "come on sarah, stay by me". oh well, myself and the bike are fine. just thought i'd share that with you all. |
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2010-07-02 8:00 PM in reply to: #2959125 |
Veteran 200 South Shore, MA. | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! Life's finer moments to be celebrated with a beer and a bike tune-up |
2010-07-02 8:25 PM in reply to: #2959125 |
Veteran 103 Destin, Florida | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! Must be something about NW Florida and bikes today. I was 1.5 mile in to my ride this morning and found a metal grate in the gutter on 98 in Santa Rosa Beach and took a spill, ended up with some road rash, sore wrist and bent front rim...today was not the day to ride in NW Florida. |
2010-07-02 8:33 PM in reply to: #2959125 |
Veteran 215 North Carolina | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! I too had an over the handlebars experience today. Good job saving the youngun. |
2010-07-02 8:45 PM in reply to: #2959125 |
New user 6 | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! I'm just getting over a bike wreck that bent up my handlebars and forced me to get new ones. Came arounnd a corner at the end of a long hill going ~23 mph and hit grass someone's mower had thrown across the pavement. Lost control and ended up landing on the handlebars somehow. Still have one rib refusing to go back into place, but road rash has healed and my new Profile Design bars are amazing. |
2010-07-02 10:27 PM in reply to: #2959125 |
Pro 4174 Keller, Texas | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! 5 weeks into my broken fibula recovery caused by a patch of gravel hit while going around a corner. Should be walking unassisted in another week or so. Trainer rides and swimming for awhile for me. |
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2010-07-03 7:41 AM in reply to: #2959125 |
Extreme Veteran 412 Panama City | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! wow, mine difinitely could have gone worse. wish you injured guys/gals back soon. |
2010-07-03 7:46 AM in reply to: #2959125 |
Regular 136 | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! One month ago I was riding on the bike path in Summit County Colorado. I was on the Vail Pass bike path. There is a company that you can pay to drive you to the top of the pass so all you have to do is ride down the path (unbelieveable!!) which is very twisting/turning in several places. My friend and I were commenting on how dangerous this is. About 50 people in this one (or maybe several groups together) start heading down. We wait to make sure they are out of our way before heading down. We start down and make it to the bottom where there are about 25 of this group off to the side. I see them in the distance start to get back on to the path. I also note that not ONE of them is even looking to see if anybody is coming. I start yelling "bikers on you left/pay attention" and repeated constantly until I was passing one of the last bikers. When I yelled "on you left" this 12 year old kid goes left and I stop as quickly as I could. As I was going over my handle bars I remember seeing the kids bike inches from my face. I landed directly on my face and thought I broke my nose and a few other things. Ironically, I completely missed hitting anybody and my bike had very minimal damage. As it turns out, I just had a couple stitches on my upper lip. Lots of blood due to being on blood thinners. The emergency room said they were most concerned because of my blood thinners. They wanted to do a cat-scan but I remembered the accident so well and never lost consciencness. They told my husband to keep a close eye on me because they were concerned about bleeding on the brain. In the middle of the night while I was sleeping he took a picture of me and sent it to one of the companies that offers this VERY un-safe activity explaining what happened. Any way, I am SO lucky and was back to training for Ironman Arizona within a one week (after several chiropractic/massage visits). I learned a lot and am very thankful for my good fortune. Biggest lesson: While this accident was not my fault, I was the more experienced cyclist and should have passed this group much more defensively. Instead I was angry that they were even on the path and didn't use the best judgement. Patience would have served me well in this case. It was also a big wake-up call about being on blood thinners. I have to be on blood thinners for life and I need to remember how serious that can be. Any way, very happy to be training again and Ironman Arizona here I come!!!! |
2010-07-03 8:43 AM in reply to: #2959125 |
Extreme Veteran 412 Panama City | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! ^^great perspective. So many times on here you can find elitists preaching from his/her high horse about recreational bikers and kids and how the rest of the world should just know to get out of the way when they're training. 99.99% of people aren't training, they're enjoying the outdoors. It's refreshing to hear an athlete not condeming some kid who panic'd for just being just that, "a kid" who panic'd...good on you. Edited by brycoy 2010-07-03 8:44 AM |
2010-07-03 10:08 AM in reply to: #2959125 |
Veteran 495 Calgary | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! This may be stating the obvious but...recreational and multi-use paths are not good for training or riding fast. I commute on multi-use paths and I'm generally pretty careful but I know it can be hard to resist the urge to go fast. Don |
2010-07-03 10:08 AM in reply to: #2959125 |
Extreme Veteran 694 | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! Here is a report of my wreck last year: So I was doing my regular 16 mile time trial route attempting to better my best 18.1 average MPH run. I knew I was in the money for a new record as I crested the top of the last steep climb way point at 17.7 average, when my best ever had been 17.3 at this way point. All that was left now was the high speed rolling hill section where I could ride at speeds up to 28 MPH. Edited by MKAH 2010-07-03 10:28 AM |
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2010-07-03 1:26 PM in reply to: #2959570 |
Extreme Veteran 412 Panama City | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! donw - 2010-07-03 10:08 AM This may be stating the obvious but...recreational and multi-use paths are not good for training or riding fast. I commute on multi-use paths and I'm generally pretty careful but I know it can be hard to resist the urge to go fast. Don I agree, but i've also been yelled at and had cars/trucks try to "brush me off the plate" with a near miss while telling me to get on the bike path. Not really worth yelling back, so I ignore them and continue on...but i do value my health and would prefer to not get hit by a vehicle. they're just ignorant and that's part of this life, so i'm not going to complain anymore, i'm over those a-holes. (one last shot at them) lol |
2010-07-03 3:40 PM in reply to: #2959125 |
Veteran 732 Pittsburgh, PA | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! brycoy - 2010-07-02 7:55 PM I can now see she was following what seemed to be her grandmother who turns around to see a strange man standing next to her grandaughter with a helmet, but no bike. she looks at me like some sort of pedifile pervert and says "come on sarah, stay by me". This cracked me up. You think: I just saved your granddaughter. She sees: Some guy in spandex and a helmet, just standing there with a huge grin on his face... No good deed goes unpunished, right? |
2010-07-03 4:37 PM in reply to: #2959125 |
Master 1517 Raleigh | Subject: RE: I survived my first crash!! Must be something about the beach...i had my 1st wreck. here's the deets: http://www.idleathlete.com/?p=177 Ended up with bruised palms, white meat and a partially torn AC Joint from the impact... fun! |