Took a very strange fall last week just after the above picture was taken. I am hesitant to put this here as it may discourage some but I will call it a none moving accident . I never get on my bike from standing on a curb. but after a hour riding and several stops along the way I needed to get to front door of our building so I got on my bike next to the curb and pushed off but I did not have enough motion so I started to put my left foot down and it got caught between the curb and my bike. My left lean got over so there was no correcting it. I must say here I have gone over to the left many times and always fall to the left side shoulder and have never hit my head. Most of the time just a few scratches on the elbow and wondering how I ended up on the ground.
This time my foot was trapped into the curb and bent my foot bad just behind the toes. My wife picked the bike up of me and I got over and sat on a bench. Foot hurt bad but nothing else was bothering me. There was a lot more wrong later that night. Did not break any toes but they can get black and blue fast and also up the bottom of my foot half way back. Just above the right ankle very large bruise. Just below the right knee and on the lower right side of the knee no bruise but sore like don't touch me. I was wearing my Russian dive watch and the metal band took a bite out of my left wrist just above my glove.
I put this here as it is not the kind of accident you think of with a bicycle. I really has nothing to do with age but not thinking out what you are doing . I was a dumb accident I will not repeat
I am going to mention another now funny accident I had 15 years ago. I was at a rural intersection and I did not want to loosen my toe clip so I reached over to balance my self on a mailbox and the mailbox pushed off the top of the pole it was mounted on ,I slid down the 4x4 pole into a lump between two mailboxes, ouch.
Ed