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Jonny69
19-07-2010, 13:15
Yesterday I managed to survive a whole day cycling on the treacherous roads of SE London incident free. Then I decided to pull into Waitrose for some supplies for Sunday dinner and it all went wrong. There's a traffic calming measure on the way into the car park, like a diamond pattern brick cattle grid if you like, well my bike tangled up the front wheel in it and threw me off.

So today I'm sporting two mashed palms, injured wrist, grazes up my right arm and a big lump on my leg. Spent two hours in the hospital getting my wrist seen to because it's very painful. Not broken but the joint is bruised. I now have a splint which hopefully might be useful for my ride home, which was agony this morning.

And to cap it all off they were closed :angry:

Anyway, they'll be hearing from me. Not looking for compensation but I'm mighty ****** off and now can't use the gym either. They need to know about that.

volospian
19-07-2010, 13:36
Had an accident and it wasn't your fault?

LeperousDust
19-07-2010, 15:48
Buuuuuuums jonny, unlucky, i had a very similar close shave yesterday accidentally getting stuck in tram lines on my racer, i managed to jump out though, but in busy traffic and buses is was ****ing scary. God help me if i had actually came off. I'm much much more wary of the death tram lines now!...

Jonny69
19-07-2010, 17:40
It's why I could never ride with my feet clipped in. There are just too many hazards on my daily journey (including tramlines).

LeperousDust
19-07-2010, 18:20
It's why I could never ride with my feet clipped in. There are just too many hazards on my daily journey (including tramlines).

Funny you should say that, i'm TOO used to being clipped in and keep jumping off the pedals (bad habbit) expecting the bike to follow me, it's becoming a problem since i bought my recent racer! I'm teaching myself to lift the bike properly again after a too many years! Now i know the next time i go mountain biking i'll be falling off left right and centre because i've forgotten i'm clipped in :D

Jonny69
19-07-2010, 19:39
Luckily managed to borrow some allen keys from work. I repositioned the handlebars so I can get hold of the sides of the drop bars instead of the top bar. Much more comfortable than this morning's ride :)