Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
Glad you're relatively ok.
Not to be critical, and speaking with the benefit of hindsight and time to reflect, there are a couple of lessons learned here.
1) When you're going downhill it's ok to move further into the lane of traffic. This gives you more of a margin for error, and because you're often going close to the speed of traffic, you're less of an impediment to trafiic. Your legal obligation is only to ride as far right as practicable.
2) Watch for ruts parrallel to your line of travel and do not cross them at shallow angles. If you need to cross a rut, do so at an acute angle. If that's not possible, then either slow down, or bunny hop it.
I hope you have a speedy recovery! Take it easy while the bone heals, you will know when your body's ready.
Point #2 bears repeating. That was how I crashed the first time when I tried to cross an old defunct trolley rail in the city. Entering at a shallow angle and at a slow speed was why I went down. Even though I was riding at probably 5-10 mph, the road rash put me out of commission for a week even though nothing was broken.