Originally Posted by
dvdslw
Wow man, sorry to hear about your wreck. The scary thing for me would be the fact that there's no apparent reason for your spill. The "observer" rules out a car and the bike is fine so I'd have to guess road imperfection, some type of blackout/seizure, or the dreaded squirrel! I would think that if you were about to hit something like a crossing animal or unexpected pot hole you would have said to yourself "OH S***!!!" and recalled the obstacle afterwards, maybe not? I'd be looking into a blackout from something like low blood sugar, heat exhaustion, or some kind of neurological tick. Scary regardless, hope you get well soon.
I am pretty sure that the brain takes 30-60 seconds before it "stores" info. So a concussion* seems a lot more probable than a blackout or seizure. I've never had either. I don't think a squirrel would do it on a straight road - I know I've ridden over chipmunks and I think I've run over a squirrel. I weigh 230!
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"Concussion" can range from trivial to a coma, for all I know. I consider losing consciousness a practical way to determine the severity of some. The responder who lost 3 days
[my sincere condolences] obviously had a worse experience than my 2-5 minutes. But I've read that those memories often don't get stored in a situation like this. I personally experienced this 40 years ago, one of my best cyclist friends just told me that it had happened to him, and I personally observed a woman have the same thing happen to her (paceline, hit hole, endo, I barely was able to avoid her).