How about some pics to add to the misery?

Mine was only a little over a month ago and convinced me to solve my Davidson's Ergopower 8-speed ghost-shifting problem once and for all. Out on a local ride with Bob Freeman and a couple others we were heading out the back roads from Sultan to Index. 3/4 up the first rather steep climb of the day my chain jumped from the lowest cog to about halfway through the cassette. The ghost-shift caused my left knee to jerk forward and smack into the left end of my handlebar - I was climbing out of the saddle.

In a flash my bike simply slipped right out from beneath me and I landed on my left hip, both feet still clipped/strapped in and both hands still on the bars! I unclipped, popped back up, remounted and that was pretty much it. No damage to the bike, superficial cut on my knee from the plastic Cinelli bar-end cap:



My last fall before that? Hawaii, 1998 - I bruised my collarbone on that one. Knock on wood it's another good, long time until the next one (I won't count any falls on my MTB).

DD