Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[Nigelnaturist]

@moo You will be surprised how quickly you can recover, glad to hear it wasn't anything to major.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Went to the docs this morning and the ribs aren't bruised or fractured, it's just muscle strain. She said I can't do any further damage and simply to take it easy. A good dosing of ibuprofen all day and the pain has mostly gone away. I even managed a reasonable 11 mile commute home.

TBH it was my fault. I was riding a hybrid far too big with a temporary 23mm tyre on the front. Disaster waiting to happen.

I decided to strip the bike and put all the good parts on my other clunker. That's 2 bikes I've now completely rebuilt. I'm amused that 6 months ago I was scared to change a frayed cable

See bike maintenance isn't difficult, I think the biggest thing that confuses people especially with gears, is that when you go down the cassette i.e. from 17th to 15th you are actually going up a gear, where as on the front the the reverse is true, you go up in gears from smaller to larger.

 

[stevey]

Well i set out this morning as usual 2 mins into ride woman in a 205 didn't see me (into low sun no glasses) turned right into the junction straight into me....
Bike totalled cracked forks,an s shaped front ring, Luckily i have escaped with a cut knee and very sore ribs.

Have exchanged details anyone have any ideas as to what i do now as this is the first RTA i have been involved in.

 

[welsh dragon]

Well i set out this morning as usual 2 mins into ride woman in a 205 didn't see me (into low sun no glasses) turned right into the junction straight into me....
Bike totalled cracked forks,an s shaped front ring, Luckily i have escaped with a cut knee and very sore ribs.

Have exchanged details anyone have any ideas as to what i do now as this is the first RTA i have been involved in.

Glad your all right.

 

[RWright]

Well i set out this morning as usual 2 mins into ride woman in a 205 didn't see me (into low sun no glasses) turned right into the junction straight into me....
Bike totalled cracked forks,an s shaped front ring, Luckily i have escaped with a cut knee and very sore ribs.

Have exchanged details anyone have any ideas as to what i do now as this is the first RTA i have been involved in.

Ouch stevey, sorry to hear that. Glad you are not hurt too bad. I don't know what I would do now. I think I would get the police involved if they are not already and ask them the procedure.

 

[Stonechat]

Well i set out this morning as usual 2 mins into ride woman in a 205 didn't see me (into low sun no glasses) turned right into the junction straight into me....
Bike totalled cracked forks,an s shaped front ring, Luckily i have escaped with a cut knee and very sore ribs.

Have exchanged details anyone have any ideas as to what i do now as this is the first RTA i have been involved in.

Hope you are ok

 

[stevey]

Ouch stevey, sorry to hear that. Glad you are not hurt too bad. I don't know what I would do now. I think I would get the police involved if they are not already and ask them the procedure.

I did phone them as i was not seriously hurt they explained just to exchange details, Off to the doc's later to get checked up though

 

[Goonerobes]

Well i set out this morning as usual 2 mins into ride woman in a 205 didn't see me (into low sun no glasses) turned right into the junction straight into me....
Bike totalled cracked forks,an s shaped front ring, Luckily i have escaped with a cut knee and very sore ribs.

Have exchanged details anyone have any ideas as to what i do now as this is the first RTA i have been involved in.

Sorry to hear this @stevey but glad you're reasonably okay.

You've doing all the right things by letting the police know & getting checked at the docs. GWS.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@stevey glad your ok.
Let your insures know so any problems they can chase hers up.

 

[Mo1959]

@stevey Gosh, sorry to hear that. I think I would ask the police to log the details and give you an incident number in case she backs out of admitting liability later. Hopefully, she will be ok though and stump up or put it through her insurance, and yes, go to the docs and get checked over and try and get some pics of all the nice bruising which will no doubt come up soon!

Next door neighbour had a similar shunt last year but fortunately was still able to use the union lawyers of the firm he used to work for and they did all the hard work and he ended up with a tidy sum.

 

[stevey]

Thanks Mo off to docs in a minute will post pics later of the bike

 

[moo]

Hope you're OK @stevey. Those ribs are gonna really hurt tomorrow. Plenty of drugs works wonders tho.

 

[Trevor_P]

Need to hope I get some time to ride between now and Thursday, as I'd like to do 65Km to reach 500 for the month.

 

[stevey]

Thanks @moo There bloody hurting now.... been told by the other half to look at a new bike (Bright side to this episode).
And just back from the docs nothing broken just badly bruised ribs and a bruised knee so all in all pretty lucky

Here is the bike the front rim is cracked as well you also can't see from the pics is the crank is bent.

 

[Mo1959]

Thanks @moo There bloody hurting now.... been told by the other half to look at a new bike (Bright side to this episode).
And just back from the docs nothing broken just badly bruised ribs and a bruised knee so all in all pretty lucky

Here is the bike the front rim is cracked as well you also can't see from the pics is the crank is bent.

Definitely a write off Judging by the damage, you've got off reasonably lightly injury wise. Hope you're not too sore tomorrow.