How to recover after an off

[Tiger10]

Don't tell your 'other half' you fell off !!

Definitely second that.

Just to be sure don't tell anyone else or write it down so that it can be used in evidence against you.........

 

[Jody]

The best way to get over a fall is to get back on with riding ASAP. All the best riders I know (MTB) who stacked on big doubles/drops etc get straight back on, blood and all to have another go unless it was a serious injury. It seemed crazy at the time but you're more likely for it to happen again if you over think it.

As for the "one big crash away" statement, the same could be said for walking down the stairs, getting in your car etc. Sometimes sh*t happens but don't let it hold you back.

 

[User16625]

So I came off my bike yesterday. I was mounting the bike lane from the road and missed judged the kerb, the front wheel go stuck on the road side as the kerb began to rise and the rest of my kept going towards the bike lane - so I fell onto my left hand side.

The bike is ok - just need to clean it and re-align the seat. I am ok - few bruise on knee, hip, ribs and shoulder - I will get over them. It is just my confidence as someone said to me when I told them that 'your always on big fall away from you last ride...'.

Has anyone got any advice - it is really my confidence that has been knocked.

Have a load of beers tonight and try cycling again Sunday. Also learn to avoid tramlines, ride up kerbs square on in future and if riding down old railway lines, dont try to ride across or along the metal things. Most important of all, have loads of beers tonight and put the incident behind you.

 

[jefmcg]

We are all "one big <something>" away from being dead. If you cycle, it's less likely to be cardiac arrest, or a stroke.

 

[I like Skol]

I have yet to suffer a serious accident or a slide on tarmac, which I dread.

Don't fear the shredder!

The best way to get over a fall is to get back on with riding ASAP. All the best riders I know (MTB) who stacked on big doubles/drops etc get straight back on, blood and all to have another go unless it was a serious injury.

My one big tarmac slide of my adult life happened on the early morning ride to work about 1 miles in to a 10 mile commute. I got back on the bike and finished the ride then sat at my desk, dabbing the bloody dribbles with tissues. I was asked several times if I needed to see the company nurse but declined saying that as soon as the oozing stopped I would get cleaned up and change out of my cycling gear. I rode my bike home again as well.
Broke my knee last year when riding/falling down some steps (more a series of random ledges than steps) and was back on the bike within a couple of weeks once I could bend my leg enough (bizarrely, it was less painful to cycle than drive for months afterwards).

Motto is, carry on regardless, business as usual

 

[glenn forger]

If you get a good scab on your knee sometimes it cracks during healing and STUFF oozes out. I am not a doctor.

 

[I like Skol]

If you get a good scab on your knee sometimes it cracks during healing and STUFF oozes out. I am not a doctor.

Once it has a good crust with an oozy substrate then it is picking season

 

[glenn forger]

There's a word for the stuff you can see in a deep knee wound. I forget the word but it goes "Bibbity". Not cartilage. Funny word.

 

[steve50]

Once it has a good crust with an oozy substrate then it is picking season

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I've done that on kerbs so many times I've started to think it's the normal way of getting up them!
Just get back on and have some fun.

 

[CrackPuffin]

Ty all

 

[si_c]

Once it has a good crust with an oozy substrate then it is picking season

Scraped all the skin off my knee on the Llandudno ride last weekend, was oozing blood afterwards, and then put on some soft pants, so of course it scabbed into the pants. I had to rip it off as I was riding back next day.

It's scabbed over nicely now, and I'm sat in work thinking more about rolling my jeans up and picking than I am about working...

 

[Deleted member 35268]

As long as the bike is ok, that's the main thing.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Coming from a mountain biking background into road cycling I don't fear falling off, at least not at slow speed. On the two occasions when I fell off my road bike, within the space of 2 minutes each side of the A6 on black ice, it was the hardness of the road that shook me up but I got straight back on both times and carried on. I was more upset to have scratched my brake hoods on each side!

However in seven years of road cycling I have yet to suffer a serious accident or a slide on tarmac, which I dread.

The hardness of the road. The hardness of tarmac. We know in our heads it is unyielding, a solid, unmoveable object, a irresistible barrier that does not flinch under the impact of mere flesh and bone.

Yet nothing, not a thing, can mentally prepare us for the sheer shock of impact when we fall, unexpectedly from bike, or in my most recent case, longboard. The hardness of the road leaves us breathless, and quaking, as, prostrate, we reboot our bodies one digit, one limb, at a time, fearfully expecting the stabbing pain of a fracture, and even as our jangled brain becomes slowly aware that, yet again, we will live to ride another day, ride home even, a part of us is screaming "Wow*, that really hurts. And this tarmac is dreadfully* hard."

*other expressions are available.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

and I have never come off fast enough, thank goodness, to get a good, cheese grater, slide going on a road bike.... MTB, sure, motorbike, thank goodness for leathers....