Post by nobody on Jan 31, 2016 10:58:09 GMT -6
Logan said this in another thread, quote:
"...be careful while out on the bike since you appear to have someone who would take great pleasure swerving in your direction. I was actually hit by a vehicle in a parking lot while on my bike when a young woman was driving in reverse and not paying attention. While I was mostly shaken up with a couple of abrasions there was the question of whether she was going to continue backing over me while I was on the ground. I was also in shock for the next 12 hours."
My bike-related injuries have so far involved nobody but me. Many, many skinned knees and elbows. (At a garage sale I bought knee and elbow pads but don't use them.) In May 2007 I had two crashes that were the worst, so far. Got caught in a rut in an alley and flopped over like a dead fish on my side; thought I had ruptured my spleen until I googled it and found out I would have dying by then; turned to be torn rib cartilage (my diagnosis); could still ride and walk but lying down and getting out of bed hurt like hell.
Two weeks later I had an equally stupid crash that left me on my left side 5 feet from my bike. Took a sharp turn on a concrete sidewalk and somehow flubbed it. Thought I had a broken collarbone; felt it, got up and rode the 2 miles home. Next day my shoulder was fine but my knee was in a bad way. For 9 months I couldn't put weight on that knee bent. Could ride and walk o.k. Noticed much later the tibial tubercle right below the knee is flattened on that side, by that incident or some other.
I wasn't covered by health insurance when I started riding. Now I am; obamacare. But I'm afraid to ride much now. Sole caretaker for old animals and an old person, and nobody now to take care of them or me if I get hurt.
The most fun I had riding bikes was getting up as much speed as possible and then going down a hill or canyon, belly on the seat of the bike. Or starting up from a stoplight and getting up past 20 mph in half a block. It's a blast to outrun a motor vehicle or try to.
So far I've had only close calls with motorists. Most common is pulling out in front of me or turning in front of me when I had the right-of-way. Drivers either don't respect cyclists or respect us too much.
"...be careful while out on the bike since you appear to have someone who would take great pleasure swerving in your direction. I was actually hit by a vehicle in a parking lot while on my bike when a young woman was driving in reverse and not paying attention. While I was mostly shaken up with a couple of abrasions there was the question of whether she was going to continue backing over me while I was on the ground. I was also in shock for the next 12 hours."
My bike-related injuries have so far involved nobody but me. Many, many skinned knees and elbows. (At a garage sale I bought knee and elbow pads but don't use them.) In May 2007 I had two crashes that were the worst, so far. Got caught in a rut in an alley and flopped over like a dead fish on my side; thought I had ruptured my spleen until I googled it and found out I would have dying by then; turned to be torn rib cartilage (my diagnosis); could still ride and walk but lying down and getting out of bed hurt like hell.
Two weeks later I had an equally stupid crash that left me on my left side 5 feet from my bike. Took a sharp turn on a concrete sidewalk and somehow flubbed it. Thought I had a broken collarbone; felt it, got up and rode the 2 miles home. Next day my shoulder was fine but my knee was in a bad way. For 9 months I couldn't put weight on that knee bent. Could ride and walk o.k. Noticed much later the tibial tubercle right below the knee is flattened on that side, by that incident or some other.
I wasn't covered by health insurance when I started riding. Now I am; obamacare. But I'm afraid to ride much now. Sole caretaker for old animals and an old person, and nobody now to take care of them or me if I get hurt.
The most fun I had riding bikes was getting up as much speed as possible and then going down a hill or canyon, belly on the seat of the bike. Or starting up from a stoplight and getting up past 20 mph in half a block. It's a blast to outrun a motor vehicle or try to.
So far I've had only close calls with motorists. Most common is pulling out in front of me or turning in front of me when I had the right-of-way. Drivers either don't respect cyclists or respect us too much.