Low trail bikes and crashes

I am glad that I’m not the only one to have the feeling that low trail bikes can bite back at times, though I don’t understand exactly how or why. I have a couple of them (including a Moulton) and have been taken down hard more than once in circumstances that felt like they should have been manageable. One of them put me in traction for weeks.

Background: 4 decades of riding most things with pedals - velodrome, road, penny farthing and MTB racing last century, tandem racing and touring, own several small-wheel bikes, ridden brevets on most bikes above, confident descender, used to unicycle, ridden all recumbent bikes that I have attempted so far (though some weirdies would probably beat me).

Well I'm on the mend. Never been even remotely close to this fucked up from an injury. I've got a long way to go.

Turns out it was 5 ribs and a clavicle after further review of the images. Basically crushed the left side of my body to oblivion.

Glad to be alive. Glad I had a bucket on as it was completely destroyed. Never riding without one again.

The more I go over the events in my head the more I realize how close I was to being much worse off.

Ride safe everyone and wear a lid. 40 years of serious cycling experience. I thought I could predict risk.

Thankful every day to be alive and neurologically intact.

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Hope your recovery is straightforward, and thanks for the reminder to watch out.

cross post.
the fucking fork was defective. Shop tried to conceal it.
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/387247/#comment17091501

So wait, the shop presumably got the bike, saw that the wheel sat off center, and decided to just dish the wheel as a first thing to do?

That's my conclusion. Unless the wheel has been sitting off dish beneath my fender for a long time. Hardly likely as I've been doing this a long time. I'm going to check carefully tonight by moving a bunch of wheels around.

Years ago I lost my truing stand in a move and haven't had the stomach to replace it yet($$$).