Ah yes. From two years ago when I also snapped my wrist like a twig in a crash.

I'm impressed. good crash pics, man!

Awe geese thanks for sharing i was expecting something like this

uh...thanks for sharing those lovely images

I especially like the "hillbilly tooth"

this the same face?

http://www.620wtmj.com/620bios/philcianciola.asp

Yup, one in the same. Ever listen down under on the net?
And oh...that publicity shot is several years (and more pounds) ago....prior to me being totally enveloped by this great sport!

That first one looks like some of those "before" pics you see in dentist offices!

YIKES, a face only a mother could love??? Glad you kept with it though. I know several people that would have hung it up after something like that. Congratulations on your fotitude shining through!
RT

Brutal. I've never been "scared" to ride, but you're giving me reservations. Could you please explain how it happened?

The body is an amazing thing my friend. Here I am, just off a 3,200- mile season without a single crash after that little incident that welcomed me into the cycling club for real. Stuff heals. And heck, that picture of my thigh is right over the hip replacement! My surgeon looked at the X-ray afterward and said, "Man, I must have done a good job on you. She looks better than ever in there. No damage to the joint done!"

As for how it happened....
Turning onto my final street after a quick 20-mile ride. I was going about 17 at the time I remember because I had looked down before the turn.

Turning right, I heard a crackling noise. It would prove to be a noise that I still flinch when I hear now....tires on a little road sand. It was like ice. All of the sudden the bike is flying out from under me and I remember my face bouncing off the pavement.

Oh, and it happened on a Saturday.
I didn't go to the doc until Monday, when he told me my wrist was also broken!
From that time on I felt I really earned being called a cyclist! And I was back on my bike (It too was banged up, but not as bad as me) just over two weeks later with a cast on my arm.

Yikes!

Cole

Nah. I'll give it a go, though

This is why you should keep your face shaved!


just teasing the leg shaving crowd :D