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Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 04:49 PM Jun 2013

When you wipe out on your bike at 12, you shake it off...

...however, when you wipe out on your bike at 47, not so easy (as I'm discovering). My front tire blew out and my leg is sooooo effed! Not broken, but scuffed bad enough that it's taken 2 towels (so far) to staunch the blood.

Despite this, I still feel like I'm 12!

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When you wipe out on your bike at 12, you shake it off... (Original Post) Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 OP
ah ... I remember the year I was nine ... riding my bike and my knees stayed skinned Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2013 #1
Just mopping it up for now... Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #2
ouch! that will burn!! Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2013 #5
Whatever happened RudynJack Jun 2013 #8
I still have an old bottle of Mercurochrome. I collect old medicine bottles. Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2013 #9
...or Bactine? Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #14
They claimed that stuff didn't sting, but it DID! alarimer Jun 2013 #19
Mercurochrome = mercury RILib Jun 2013 #16
Might need an X-ray? n/t UTUSN Jun 2013 #3
I don't think anything was broken, just scuffed... Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #6
Am just paranoid: Fractured a fibula (left leg) & 2 operations & 6 mos lost UTUSN Jun 2013 #11
Damn! That's close to what happened to me in the Porsche wreck... Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #13
reminds me of the classic Kali Jun 2013 #4
Soooo true!!!! Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #7
Pedaling standing up, then having the chain slip off the sprocket ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2013 #10
You're pumping down and then... Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #12
My worst cycle accident was when I was your age, you whippersnapper! pink-o Jun 2013 #15
OW! THAT must've hurt!!!! Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #20
13 yrs old, first time on roller blades, steep hill, realised I didn't know how to stop... Locut0s Jun 2013 #17
Back in 1999, I was at FDR's house in Hyde Park... Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #21
Was about that age on my one and only "wipeout" ConcernedCanuk Jun 2013 #18
Man... and I thought MY Mom was tough!!! Cooley Hurd Jun 2013 #22
I had a epic gravel bike wreck going over I-10 on a bridge. texanwitch Jun 2013 #23

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)
1. ah ... I remember the year I was nine ... riding my bike and my knees stayed skinned
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 05:12 PM
Jun 2013

the whole summer!! still have a small scar from that.

got some Neosporin, I hope

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)
9. I still have an old bottle of Mercurochrome. I collect old medicine bottles.
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 05:24 PM
Jun 2013

Now we have Betadine ... but some people are allergic

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
14. ...or Bactine?
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 05:41 PM
Jun 2013

Back in the 70's, used to see bottles of it in the medicine cabinet (next to Anacin! )

alarimer

(16,245 posts)
19. They claimed that stuff didn't sting, but it DID!
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 11:56 PM
Jun 2013

My grandmother swore by and put it on every little ouch. And it stung so much I still have nightmares.

Do they even still make it?

 

RILib

(862 posts)
16. Mercurochrome = mercury
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 07:02 PM
Jun 2013

However, I would follow what my Mom always did and wash it out with soap, then put an antibiotic cream on it. Keep a close eye on it for infection.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
6. I don't think anything was broken, just scuffed...
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 05:18 PM
Jun 2013

It's my left leg. My right leg was crushed 10 years ago when I wrecked my 928-S4. Soooooo not the same thing.

I guess the point of posting about my bike wreck was that I was PLEASED that, despite being close to 50, I can STILL take a tumble!

UTUSN

(70,494 posts)
11. Am just paranoid: Fractured a fibula (left leg) & 2 operations & 6 mos lost
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 05:29 PM
Jun 2013

So have lost the joie de vivre of taking chances. Ain't that sad?!1

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
13. Damn! That's close to what happened to me in the Porsche wreck...
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 05:38 PM
Jun 2013

My tibia plateau was crushed when the engine was pushed back, kinking the floor pan up and smashing my leg into a cross-member under the dashboard. The "Jaws-Of-Life" freed me from the wreck. Recovery was 6 months. However, I can walk today thanks to a courageous Orthopaedic surgeon (his initial assessment was to lop my leg off, but, despite it being a Saturday, he rebuilt it!).

Kali

(54,990 posts)
4. reminds me of the classic
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 05:14 PM
Jun 2013

some painting of an old guy with no teeth (cowboy in my Dr.s Office) "If Ah'd a knowed I was gunna live this long, I woulda took better care of mahself."

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,282 posts)
10. Pedaling standing up, then having the chain slip off the sprocket ...
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 05:29 PM
Jun 2013

... that was pain, and the 50-year-old memory is still cringeworthy.

pink-o

(4,056 posts)
15. My worst cycle accident was when I was your age, you whippersnapper!
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 06:57 PM
Jun 2013

I was trying to go around a muni bus and got caught in the streetcar tracks. Couldn't get out of the toe straps quick enough, and went over hard on my left side. Broke my leg right where it meets the pubic bone (so glad I'm a chick!) Just a hairline fracture, but at 47 it took 2 months to heal. At 12 I wudda been riding again in a week!

The worst was the fear I felt afterwards, how I had to force myself to get on the bike again and not have a panic attack! I hated being faced with my own middle-aged mortality. But happy to say, I gritted my teeth, rode through the anxiety and never looked back.

Haven't fallen since then, and that was 11 years ago! In fact, I joined DU then cuz I was at home recuperating, so some good came from it!

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
17. 13 yrs old, first time on roller blades, steep hill, realised I didn't know how to stop...
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 07:07 PM
Jun 2013

There was this very steep hill near my school. I had just built up enough confidence on my roller blades that I didn't think anything would be much of a problem. However I had neglected to learn how to properly stop on a hill. Something that became shockingly apparent about 1/2 way down said hill. At this point it was stop or plow into the house at the bottom of the road. So down I went on all fours, no knee pads, no wrist pads. Took all the skin off my knee and then some and very badly scarped up my wrists. Still have a small scar on my knee from this. Lol was that stupid.

 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
21. Back in 1999, I was at FDR's house in Hyde Park...
Sun Jun 16, 2013, 10:16 AM
Jun 2013

...riding the same bike I wiped out on yesterday. In the back of the house is a fairly steep hill with a little dirt trail (indicated in red):


Dum-dum me thought he could shoot down it on my bike. About half way down, I hit a significant rock and went over the handlebars. Fortunately, I landed in tall grass, so I wasn't hurt. But, man... I was BOOKING down the hill just before wiping out.

 

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
18. Was about that age on my one and only "wipeout"
Sat Jun 15, 2013, 07:51 PM
Jun 2013

.
.
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Lived about 1 - 1/2 miles from from my school - we used to walk it - me and my 3 siblings, but got a bike around grade 6 or 7.

I got pretty brave on my bike, but unbeknownst to me, a tar truck had come down my home street while I was at school one day, and then the township had spread tiny gravel on it.

Whipped around the corner as usual, hit that new gravel and tar mix, and my bike lost traction -

me sliding down on my left side scraping the hell out of it, and of course ruining my clothing.

In pain, got home -

MOTHER stripped me naked in the yard,

then washed me off with TURPENTINE -

didn't want tar in the house.

and gave me heck for ruining the clothes . . .



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texanwitch

(18,705 posts)
23. I had a epic gravel bike wreck going over I-10 on a bridge.
Sun Jun 16, 2013, 10:24 AM
Jun 2013

I was lucky it was fall so I was wearing jeans and a light jacket.

The gravel was not there in the morning, I-10 was being built.

It was late, almost dark.

I didn't see the gravel.

I hit the gravel and went down.

My bike one way, I the other.

I can still feel the pain.

I was about 11 at the time, still have the scar on my knee.

My front tire had to be replaced, my sting ray bike never looked the same.

I was lucky, there was no traffic at the time.

I had another one going down a feeder lane going down into I-10.

I am still here.

Kids bounce back.

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