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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!

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When you wipe out on your bike at 12, you shake it off... [View all] 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