Crash

well i got in the seccond worstcrash i have been in today. Im ok, some bruses and swelling in the knees and wrists, but i bent my forks to fuck... and stupidly i let the drier go with out getting his details. altho the crash might hae been my fault. any way wach out for taxies they hurt.

andif any one has some spare forks, or a method for strightening steel ones let me know

are you okay? have you gone to see a doctor in case there are some injuries that may not have surfaced yet?

hope you ok mate!

How did it happen? If you didn't get plate #'s, etc. there's not gonna be any claim for damages.
You're posting here so I guess you are ok?

yeah im fine i think, im not een bleeding any more (about an hour later) and all i think i did is sprain my left wrist.

i dont go to doctors... im kicking my self for not getting the cabbies number though... whose fault is it if the car next to me yeilds to a taxi, but i go and we colide any way so i know for the future?

Sorry to hear about that mate. I hope you left a bloody big dent in his cab.

Glad all is well at least them injuries are not self inflicted like my stupid crash ;).

Difficult to say deps on road positioning I would say. If he had to cross a dashed line and you didn't I wold say it is more on him than you but difficult if you you poped round the car. We need a diagram for our unqualified legal advice.

well a small one where my hopefully unbent bars hit his hood..

it was bewteen TCR and Gower st, on side roads, his road had a 'give way' sign, and i belie he had to cross a dotted line, or atleast one of those triangel thingys, i was just sliding along a line of stopped traffic to the right, noteen dodgeing or weaveing, when i saw him i pulled the front brake, locked the legs, and tryed to go round his front, my forks hit his bumper, bars hit his hood, i fell to my left.

got a spare pair of carbon forks [deda] you're more than welcome to borrow - pick em up from putney tonight or i can bring them in to bermondsey in the morning - glad to hear your not vegetable mash fella

time to come and get that frame chris

i can meet you central sometime

sorry to hear that vegan, hope you're up and cycling soon.

yes bad luck mate,
I have some rigid steel forks knocking about but they are for MTB...

yeah, good luck, from one recent cab victim to another

hope you're back on your bike soon, vegan. shame you didn't get his plate...

cheers for the encuragemant people, im gonna grab that fork off dicki soon, and get back roolin for sturdays naked bike ride ;)

are u actualy going to do it JEFF?

yeah, just gonna put some sunscrene on the nether regions, i dont fancy a sunburn there

haaaa

Really, is that for the sunburn or the chaffing? ;)

I had a crash this week so I'm going to hijack your thread. Text is copied directly from my post on another forum so apologies if it contains in-jokes or personal references. I find it hard to type so I'm not rewriting it:

I was riding my bike to work on Tuesday morning. I don't actually remember anything beyond walking out the front door with my bike and the next thing I knew I was in A&E but pretty out of it (morphine). Turns out I broke my clavicle (collar bone) when I fell off my bike. I was at Marble Arch (approximately) when it happened so I was 97% of the way there (I was working on Henrietta Place behind Oxford Street).

I don't know how or why I fell off my bike or if anyone else was involved although I'm guessing if they were I'd know about it by now. Some guy picked me up off the road and put me in an ambulance and locked my bike up for me. I knocked myself unconscious for a while but somehow I have his number and a piece of paper explaining who he is and what hospital I'm going to (it literally says "Tom - guy who picked you up. Paddington. Fell off your bike.").

I texted him already to say thanks and he says I fell off quite spectacularly. I really want to know what happened now though so I'm going to ring him soon and find out.

Anyway I was drifiting in and out of consiousness in A&E (partly the accident and partly the morphine) as a result I can't remember much of that beyond talking to one of the nurses and having to pee in a bottle. Its a shame really as I really want to know what Morphine feels like but I was too out of it to actually remember.

I had a bit of head trauma too and have bleeding in my brain which the doctors were really worried about and when they asked me things I'd respond by shaking my head yes or no which made them freak out but its just instinct to do it really isn't it? Anyway after some experts looked at the scans they said not to worry and that the blood would just get re-absorbed. EDIT: according to my patient discharge sheet I had a temporal intracerebral haemorrhage. Also according to this sheet I collided with a car although I don't know where they got that info from. Possibly not true.

They decided (after a huge amount of deliberation and changing their minds) to not operate on me and I just have to wear a sling and wait for it to heal (a long time unfortunately). I'd have preferred the operation but they weren't too wild on that idea due to my head trauma. So I've got to put up with a useless shoulder for a while.

No bike for a long time and I can't work for a while. Shoulder should take 6 weeks minimum to heal apparently which sucks cause I'm skint and need to be working - I'd just started a temp job 8 days previous to the crash but can't possibly go back to it.

First time I've been unconscious and the first time I've broken a bone (not bad at 30 years old).

My only other injury is some scratching on my back and some nasty road rash on my knee (its gone black but it looks like its mending already).

I'm not a big fan of the helmet debate but just to say I was wearing one and it now has a split in it due to it hitting the ground. If I wasn't wearing it that force would have gone to my skull which may or may not have been very bad. I don't want to preach but I'm pretty much 100% convinced now that a helmet is a good thing (not that I really had many doubts before). I'm most impressed with my Canondale gloves. They're not scratched or ripped at all and my hands are fine (unless I just managed not to land on my hands at all which would be a strange seeing as its instinct to put them out and a broken clavicle is usually as a result of landing with your hands out).

Anyway that took ages to type and my shoulder is killing now.

BTW my bike is apparently fine! just a bit of damage to the mudguard. Lucky escape Mr Bike! (I've not seen it though as my GF collected it for me and left it at her work till I'm well enough to fetch it).

I'm all dopey too from all the pain killers. Its like I'm a lazy stoner again but not as much fun.

glad to hear your ok.
prepare for a confusing/clumsy few months/weeks
take care man and get better

Shit, heal up soon. Be sure to chase up on any compensation, good you have a witness.

Dude, really glad you're still with us... Sounds fucking scary, a very lucky escape... Heal fast... J x

Yeah Chris and Sam, lucky guys!! Glad to hear your on the mend, keep an eye on it and make sure you're looked after.. luckily I've not had a proper spill but I'm waiting for the nigh on inevitable... anyways heal up guys!! Peace & love E

Ditto.

My mate had a similar experience a few years ago, though his memory loss extended backwards about a week before the crash. Scary stuff. He's fine though, and enjoys riding his bike now as much as he ever did - I hope that's encouraging in some way.