On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:25:32 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 4/11/2015 12:02 AM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Friday, April 10, 2015 at 10:41:14 PM UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 4/10/2015 4:16 PM, Duane wrote:
On 10/04/2015 3:58 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:

It's not SOP in Canada or Ontario (a province in Canada) to go to the
ER for road rash. I went because the roasd rash was fairly extensive
and in areas I could not reach to get the grit out of. I wanted to be
sure I didn't get complications fron some weird infection so went to
have those areas well cleaned.

It's just that in this forum road rash is intended by some to mean some
slight superficial injury. Most of us know that this is not always the
case.

I guess I'm an outlier again. I've had road rash once that I recall,
which means, since turning 18 (about 50 years ago). It was a patch
about 2 cm diameter on my knee. I was more upset that I tore my nice
(non-cycling-specific) jacket.

I do try hard to keep the tires between me and the ground.

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- Frank Krygowski

You do live a charmed life Frank. Most of us also like to and try to keep the tires on the surface of what we are riding. However sometimes **** beyond our control happens and we go down.

I am curious about how often other people crash, and what causes their
crashes.

I've had only two moving on-road crashes since getting an adult bike in
1972. One was a winter fall on a super-steep (now closed to traffic)
city street in the winter. Descending at walking speed, I turned to
avoid some glass and my front tire slid out on gravel. The other was
when the front forks suddenly broke off of our custom tandem at about 10
mph.

Playing around off-road on mountain bikes, etc. I've had some topples,
but no injuries. I'm _very_ careful about watching road surfaces, and
of course I ride roads as a legal vehicle operator.

So how do other people get in trouble?

I ducked my head thinking that the limb on the ornamental shrub on the
side of the road would just brush over my head. It didn't, I crashed.
Hit the road at about 30 KPH and broke my hip.

As an aside, the Emergency Room DID NOT ask me if I was wearing a
helmet :-(
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Cheers,

John B.