Hitting the deck at 50 is not fun

[tuxbailey]

Originally Posted by Peter P.

Nowadays, people your age get hurt just walking to the 'fridge to get a beer!

Pro tip: Get rid of the full sus' bike and ride full rigid. It will slow down your speed and reduce the severity of such collisions. Speed kills!

Full rigid? That was the spesh Hardrock I had when I was 18...

I think if I ride a full rigid on the trails my herniated disc will tell me to quit in one ride.

[Toeclips]

I moved to Columbia because I thought it was safe

Here's to a speedy recovery

[mcteague]

When I was 61 I went over the bars riding my mt bike going down a small hill with a stream at the bottom. Partway down the hill I saw rocks in what I thought was a clear path. I hit the brakes a bit too hard, was still getting used to the disk brakes on a new bike, the fork compressed, my weight went forward and over I went. I still remember the hard thud when I landed. For a while I just laid there and said to myself " why aren't you getting up?". Stood up and felt some pain in my left shoulder. First thought was collar bone and sure enough I could feel a sharp edge at the mid point. It was broken.

For some reason I felt really calm and just unzipped my jersey half way and stuck my arm in it for a makeshift sling. First thought was "crap, there goes the Summer". As I walked my bike back the mile or so to my car the next thought was "how in the hell am I going to get the bike on the roof rack?", As luck would have it, as soon as I got to the parking area someone was riding past and they helped me stow the bike. Fun times!

Tim

[tuxbailey]

Originally Posted by Toeclips

I moved to Columbia because I thought it was safe

Here's to a speedy recovery

I live in Elkridge, so it might be rougher here

[tuxbailey]

Originally Posted by mcteague

When I was 61 I went over the bars riding my mt bike going down a small hill with a stream at the bottom. Partway down the hill I saw rocks in what I thought was a clear path. I hit the brakes a bit too hard, was still getting used to the disk brakes on a new bike, the fork compressed, my weight went forward and over I went. I still remember the hard thud when I landed. For a while I just laid there and said to myself " why aren't you getting up?". Stood up and felt some pain in my left shoulder. First thought was collar bone and sure enough I could feel a sharp edge at the mid point. It was broken.

For some reason I felt really calm and just unzipped my jersey half way and stuck my arm in it for a makeshift sling. First thought was "crap, there goes the Summer". As I walked my bike back the mile or so to my car the next thought was "how in the hell am I going to get the bike on the roof rack?", As luck would have it, as soon as I got to the parking area someone was riding past and they helped me stow the bike. Fun times!

Tim

I think your adrenaline was fueling the calmness

[ripvanrando]

Originally Posted by tuxbailey

I think your adrenaline was fueling the calmness

Pain tolerance varies a lot.

I had to untangle and straighten a compound break in my arm after a crash. Called my wife and she took me to the ER. After the surgery and well into PT, I went to my Chiro for shoulder pain that was not going away and he would not treat me telling me to go back to the surgeon because he said my pain tolerance is very, very high and that something is really wrong. Turns out my scapula and trochanter were also broken on top of all the other bones. It was right on the CT, they missed it. The big problem is now I sit really crooked on the saddle and one of the hamstrings always hurts and I have no idea how to fix that.

Someone in my family said, no brain, no pain.

If I ever crash again, will go and get scanned (at a different hospital). You never know if something broke.

[steelbikerider]

Pain tolerance is weird. I crashed and hurt my collarbone/shoulder. Couldn't grip the bars or put weight on my left hand but rode home anyway, about 10 miles. I figured the pain breathing was cracked ribs. I was partially right - cracked ribs, broken collarbone but didn't guess the punctured/collapsed lung. At least the cute ER nurse was impressed that I was able to ride home. Later I tried to remove some of my own stitches later(doc okayed it).
But my wife tells me to quite whining about mosquito bites.

[ripvanrando]

My long post was basically to say if you are old and crash and it hurts a bit, get it checked.

[johnniecakes]

Originally Posted by HenryA

I ride moderately now-a-days and walk sections I would have never considered walking 20 years ago. But I still love to ride.

These days, the goal is to come back "not bleeding".

This is me also, my pride has been overcome by common sense and the reality that there really is no rush. Most of my rides are now classified as STR (smell the roses)

[HenryA]

When you eat dirt, get back on the bike and ride out as soon as you know there are no bones sticking out. Waiting makes it hurt more and you will be more sore later.

[OtayBW]

That ill-feeling when you're observing the ongoing drama in slo-mo and it eventually dawns you that - yep - it's going to happen. You're going down and there ain't nothing in the world you can do about it. A moment of involuntary, perhaps even calm resignation before the inevitable.....

Oh well....Hope you heal up fast.