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Its quite sad that we have to ride in such a paranoid way .. but I guess better be protected than righteous. I use a cycliq fly12 and its a lovely little thing with great battery life for longer rides. They also do a rear facing fly6. In addition to the 'cctv' patch you can get some reflective vinyl cut and put on seatpost too, would be cheap and handy when you don't carry your bag. If you want a fuck off bright rear light Moon shield is the one.
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Did you sleep ok last night? If you find yourself having nightmares it could be a symptom of both concussion and trauma so it's fairly normal to have increased anxiety as a result-it's your body's fight or flight system taking over and can be quite unsettling to deal with as you can consciously tell yourself everything's fine but you still feel like shit.
Re: concussion-when I got totalled a few years ago I got stretchered to hospital, saw consultants etc for fractures but nobody checked if I was concussed because they were so focused on my pelvis and leg. Went to a clinic two weeks later because I felt terrible and didn't know why, the first thing the doctor did was shine a light into my eyes and tell me I had a massive concussion and shouldn't have been discharged from hospital without an MRI. I didn't even remember hitting my head but when I checked my helmet sure enough it was split in the middle. Apparently they can take 48 hours to show so do take it easy and if you start feeling sick or anything make sure and have someone near by to watch over you.
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If they saw you and went for you deliberately perhaps making yourself less conspicuous might help?
You might recall the reflective thread I had going for a while. I am just about to revive it, as I just scored two massive rolls of yellow and green reflective from a firm that stick it on ambulances. Do you want some when I get it?
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Rapha are sorting out a new outfit to replace the clothes that were lost. I was cheeky (and felt guilty about being cheeky) and just asked, given that I do host and run the RCC forum for them and do so for free. I'm kinda overwhelmed they agreed, but they did see it as an opportunity to finally have me out of Assos bibs.
Can't wait to heal up. I want to make sure I don't start being afraid of the road and traffic. I don't want this scare, in which I've been very lucky, to keep me from cycling.
The things I'm definitely going to do in future:
Also:
Which all sounds ridiculous, but I'm never going to not ride with cameras again, and I'm going to make sure that SMIDSY is not going to work, and that people know that if they hit me that there is footage and it won't be consequence free.