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The noise this bloke made when he 'went down' did indicate he'd hurt his 'pride' quite a bit :-S

I broke/cracked/bruised a couple of ribs Saturday before last - slipped on a piece of banana (hesitates while you laugh - everyone else has) :-( on a supermarket floor.

It's rather painful. No it's very painful, and I can't take ibuprofen for medical reasons; co-codamol is out unless I'm not going anywhere - apart from bed, for a few days (If I wanted to 'get out of my head' co-codamol is the one), so it's just plain paracetamol.

Then a bl**dy light bulb went - I'm not even going to attempt that yet - it involves a lot of stretching! Thank goodness the light has 3 bulbs, so I'm just in a mild gloominess and not total darkness!

My physiotherapist had to cancel appointments back in July ......... .he was out on a training run with his club when he "fell and broke some ribs".

Of course I had to ask what had happened when I did see him .................

in a training run, the cyclists ride two by two, after a certain distance the leading pair peel off, one to the left and one to the right, and slip to the back of the pack.

He watched out for other traffic, but didn't notice the other essential fact .......

...... to make sure that his rear wheel was clear of the following rider's front wheel

so over he went.

He then compounded the problem by curling his arm round his ribs, adding extra pressure.

result some broken ribs and a damaged elbow.

They no longer strap broken ribs here, prescribe pain killers.

He still left 2 weeks later on a planned holiday, riding a motorcycle through part of the US, taking plenty of pain killers.



I managed to keep my face straight as he was telling me the tale, but asked what his wife had said .......... he turned away and mumbled something that I didn't quite hear, but assume she'd given him a bit of a hard time. I've been going to him for about 20 years, so have heard plenty of tales about the family!

I agree with your last statement. The Lycra brigade around here are a pain in the A**e they ride right out across the road on our country lanes which are full of sharp bends. :-|, They gaze at the tarmac and not at the road stupid fools.

Rolo -
Taken a risk? Yes. Cycled through the centre of a large village, people and traffic around, without watching where he was going?
Fortunately, he only hurt himself. He's just a fool, no thought for anyone else.
No, we didn't go over to 'help' - he had at least 10 others with him, the owner of the vehicle, the shopkeeper etc.
What could we have done - stood there tutting?
And no - we didn't laugh at the time - but IF YOU READ WHAT I WROTE his cycling colleagues were laughing - and filming it..

Remember, recently, a cyclist killed a woman - true she was crossing the road, nose in phone. The cyclist saw her, but 'assumed' she would get out of his way.

I've met cyclists - all lycra cladded on the pavement 'assuming' pedestrians should get out of their way - and no, I bl**dy don't!.
If he's got 'the gear', one assumes he can ride his hand-built extravagance - so he should be on the road.

The pathetic one is the cyclist not looking where he's going!!

Perhaps we should all tell the most embarrassing thing we have ever done, or seen anyone else do. I was very rude to a traffic warden in Devon once, ranting about him ticketing me for being two minutes over. Very politely, he pointed out that, actually, I was one hour and two minutes over. He magnanimously accepted my grovelling apology.

Of course we should laugh, we are English after all. So long as the injury is not serious we love laughing at other's stupidity. I fully expect others to laugh at me in that situation. Shame we don't have an English translation for "schadenfreude".

so I take it that MaggieWinchester considers that if somebody has taken a risk, come a cropper, done something silly and needs the emergency services she would be ok to laugh and walk on by.

Pathetic.

No reports of 'Cyclist killed by stationary car' :-D :-D

If he's not looking where he's going, on a pubic road, he deserves all he gets!!
I'm sure he'd be the first to complain if someone looking at their phone, rather than the traffic, walked out in front of him.

Sauce, goose, gander and all that :-D

Quite worrying when you overtake them and they have heads down not appearing to be looking where they are going. Hope he is ok anyway, bet he takes more notice next time.

Let us hope that the cyclist is alive. Over the last year or two there have been several fatal accidents in Hants & Dorset where cyclists have collided with the rear of stationary vehicles.

The Boardman riding style, head down, may be a winner at the velodrome but on real roads cyclists need to prioritise where they are going.

I hope he had personal liability insurance to pay for the damage to the car.

Too many huge sturdy 4x4s parked in the way these days. Clamp them all!

.....we noticed the ambulance parked outside the pub on our way home :-S

Ouch, hope he wasn't too badly hurt, apart from his pride lol

Lizx

Walking along Stockbridge High Street today - quite a busy road with parking by the road, we saw about 12 'professional' cyclists (by that I mean probably a club - high calibre bikes, matching lycra, helmets etc) coming down the road.
Some were in single file, some weren't.
Then we heard a very loud 'clunk', a couple of seconds silence - then the most horrendous 'roars'.
One of the cyclists had collided with a very sturdy, parked, 4x4! :-S
We were on the opposite side of the road, and his pals had rallied around him, so we carried on our walk.
An ambulance car had turned up by the time we walked down the other side of the street.
The man was on the floor, covered in a blanket, his bike a mangled wreck - and the 'victim' - the car - had nothing but a large scratch!!
His colleagues were hanging around - none appeared too worried - some were laughing.
We went to the pub then.
But I did think - when he recovers - how will he live down the fact that he cycled into a PARKED CAR? Not only that - it was a HUGE parked car!! :-S :-S