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falling over while track standing clipped in but managing to grab a lampost on the way down which turned out to be a bad decision as, instead of ending the fall straight away, it continued for another 30 seconds with my feet twisted in pedal straps while I tried to push myself back up.
EDIT nuknow's description reminded me a a bad crash I had a couple of years ago:
I was cycling round by the north circular near tottenham hale at about 2am in a cycle lane. I came upon a long straight and decided to really go for it when this prat ambled into the cycle lane from behind a bush on a phone (he was on a phone not the bush). I was going too fast to handle the tiny 3cm high cycle lane curb which I didnt see had just apeared and without loss of momentum my bars span right round with my hand jammed in the brake lever while i simutaneously fell flat on my left side. I remember seeing the ground pass along very fast just under my left eye and thinking it looked cool. I wasn;t wearing a helmet and got a black eye, badly grazed cheek, shoulder and knee, and fractured wrist. It ripped a hole in my jeans too. I still have to see osteopath about my left shoulder which is full of scar cartilage and gives me tension headaches most weeks.