Still gently in shock.
Riding back form a friends sunday dinner and mammoth Articulate session in Liberton about 30 mins ago.
Getting going riding on my CX with road tyres on, just moving past the liberton hospital and legs are feeling a touch tight after two training sessions today. So stood up to try and get loosened up, maybe going about 17-18 mph.
My right hand shorts leg catches on my right side drop-handlebar pulling it down as I go for the stroke. I swerve WILDLY (seriously it was ridiculous how fast) out to the right missing clipping the car overtaking me by approx 1.2cm. the front wheel caught on my left shin, searing off a good 1x0.5inches of skin, which stopped it completely locking and allowed me to get my right foot down and right the bike. Miraculously I didn't come off.
Based on my achey bits I musst have dropped my body rapidly in response (which is good I suppose) but in doing so caught a certain delicate dangly bit of my body on my saddle peak and seemingly tried to remove it so that still hurts, but apart from my left shin that's the only damage.
Seriously I don't think I should have come out of that with anything less than a bad bad graze/broken arm/knee/shoulder.
On the plus side the CX and core training I've been doing seems to have paid off.
This doesn't have any value apart form Schadenfreude, plus the thought that you shouldn't ride a bike you normally ride in lycra in civies without care, but I know we've all had those moments, noone elses fault. Thought I'd ask whether you guys have had any similar moments.
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