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Cooley Hurd

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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!

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
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