Well gang the irony of life is just delicious!!
Cycling at the weekend to my Covid vaccine appointment, the rear derailleur of my commuter bike disintegrated, jammed itself into the spokes and locked the rear wheel / pedals at 25mph. So I had quite an impressive off!! I knew I should have taken the bloomin’ Z!!!
What was intriguing was that while being tangled in the bike frame in the middle of the road facing the wrong way and on my back in pain, 3 cars passed me - not one of them stopped or offered help. They did however slow down to drive around the mess I was making on the road, I’m grateful for that at least! The fourth car to pass when I was on my feet slowed to get a good look at the road rash and pull an ohbh face.
I did get a lot of attention though when I arrived at the vaccine centre dripping red stuff everywhere and having holes in my clothes. Oh and at least I was wearing clean underwear. I will spare you the gory photos. !!!
I spent half the day today in A&E being x-rayed etc as the pain was getting pretty bad - it seems I have a small elbow fracture. Again, grateful for that as it could have been a LOT worse, especially if there had been other cars behind me or coming the other way at the time of my circus act.
So with the side effects of the vaccine and an arm in a sling for a while, I will be slow in processing the dating letters and PMs. I don’t have a lot of energy or patience at the moment Apologies in advance to those waiting on me.
For the cyclists among you, in 33 years of serious competitive cycling and triathlons, I have never seen a derailleur failure like this and it’s a bit of a freak. I suspect it was weakened when some drunk / bored person kicked my bike in at the station bike park a couple of years ago and bent the rear wheel at the same time. I was powering hard to the appointment (way harder than I would commuting to the station wearing a suit) which probably opened a stress fracture.
Check your Z and bike safety features guys, especially now that most of our cars are MoT exempt. It’s too easy for mechanical things to fail unexpectedly and leave you with brown pants and damage!
Cycling at the weekend to my Covid vaccine appointment, the rear derailleur of my commuter bike disintegrated, jammed itself into the spokes and locked the rear wheel / pedals at 25mph. So I had quite an impressive off!! I knew I should have taken the bloomin’ Z!!!
What was intriguing was that while being tangled in the bike frame in the middle of the road facing the wrong way and on my back in pain, 3 cars passed me - not one of them stopped or offered help. They did however slow down to drive around the mess I was making on the road, I’m grateful for that at least! The fourth car to pass when I was on my feet slowed to get a good look at the road rash and pull an ohbh face.
I did get a lot of attention though when I arrived at the vaccine centre dripping red stuff everywhere and having holes in my clothes. Oh and at least I was wearing clean underwear. I will spare you the gory photos. !!!
I spent half the day today in A&E being x-rayed etc as the pain was getting pretty bad - it seems I have a small elbow fracture. Again, grateful for that as it could have been a LOT worse, especially if there had been other cars behind me or coming the other way at the time of my circus act.
So with the side effects of the vaccine and an arm in a sling for a while, I will be slow in processing the dating letters and PMs. I don’t have a lot of energy or patience at the moment Apologies in advance to those waiting on me.
For the cyclists among you, in 33 years of serious competitive cycling and triathlons, I have never seen a derailleur failure like this and it’s a bit of a freak. I suspect it was weakened when some drunk / bored person kicked my bike in at the station bike park a couple of years ago and bent the rear wheel at the same time. I was powering hard to the appointment (way harder than I would commuting to the station wearing a suit) which probably opened a stress fracture.
Check your Z and bike safety features guys, especially now that most of our cars are MoT exempt. It’s too easy for mechanical things to fail unexpectedly and leave you with brown pants and damage!