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Had my first for a while today on my way home.
I was riding the BMX down Carlton Vale whilst thinking about chinese food, I looked up and noticed the lights were green so I accelerated to catch them, manage to pick up some decent speed then all of a sudden the cranks and sprocket came loose and I went tumbling forwards over the bars and onto the anti skid surface that's in bus lanes.
I landed with most of my weight on the left side of my body and have lost quite a bit of skin on my knee, leg, hip, forearm, elbow, shoulder and back but the most painful bit so far is the impact, I know I'm gonna bruise up pretty badly.
Untitled by 40 skid patches, on Flickr
Untitled by 40 skid patches, on Flickr
Also managed to put holes in my nice trousers and huf T shirt and scratches on my glasses :(
Glad that I came off ok though, it would have been a lot worse had there been cars close by.