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numerous little bumps, minor crashes and doorings, but a couple stand out:
pulling into the foyer at Bike Park in Covent Garden in front of a mechanic, then failing to unclip and falling sidways into a display of bikes. The mechanic looked at me and said "new pedals?"
heading over the bridge where Marc Bolan crashed and deciding (like a twat) to attempt to adjust my mydguard whilst in motion. I hit a bump and my finger slipped into the moving wheel. The bike stopped dead and I went over the top, landing on the back of my neck. Handily, a junior doctor stopped and called the ambulance, then a surgeon cycled by, stopped and felt my spine for serious injury. I was rushed off and my head x-rayed, but the main damage was my finger which was broken at the knuckle. I had hooks coming out of my hand for a while after the first operation, but then it started setting in the wrong direction, so they had to rebreak it and try again.