Originally Posted by
mulleady
Were your accidents from road-racing Steve?
Sort of, both accidents were when I was out training by myself.
Not looking for sympathy, but.......
1: New bike, 100km into a 120km ride, slight down hill, eating banana, stretching, riding no hands.... bolt on seat clamp sheared off, landed on rear wheel, long burn mark next to my crack, landed next on the road fracturing coccyx, rolled onto hip... good bye skin. Couldn't sit for weeks. Kids were singing "
Breaka breaka tailfeather"
2: Training one morning, hit from behind by car doing 80 kms, Fract t12, crushed right calf, massive DVT, severe head lacerations, left ear mutilated then rebuilt. 2 years out of work........ and so on.
Racing is safer, I hope.