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Kathy down!
« on: 19 January, 2010, 07:31:21 pm »
On the commute tonight.  :(

We managed to evade a driver who, having driven the wrong way down a one-way stretch of road, certainly wasn't going to give way at the end of it  :facepalm: and became peculiarly angry with us  ??? and had quite a pleasant ride home. Lots of bikes were out, including one mobile Christmas tree (on further inspection the lights were concealing a 'bent and rider).

Then I turned into our road, my front wheel shot out from underneath me, and I lay there in a tangle of ripped bib tights and lot of pain.  :'( Special mention at this point should go to the pedestrian who simply continued walking straight past whilst I tried to crawl away from the junction. ::-)

And of course, the law of sod dictates that they were my lovely new fleecy tights that had only been worn once before.  ::-)
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #1 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:32:32 pm »
Ouch!


Tell Tim to get the needle and thread out!
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #2 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:33:24 pm »
Ach

At least it was only your pride and your fleecy tights.  Take care and mend. 

Was it oil, or just slushiness ?

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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #3 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:34:12 pm »
Nothing broken, I hope? Or too many wounds with blood?

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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #4 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:35:44 pm »
Ouch  :(

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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #5 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:36:20 pm »
Addendum - should have said: apart from some knocked shifters the bike seems OK, but she will be properly inspected tomorrow.  :-[

Ach

At least it was only your pride and your fleecy tights.  Take care and mend.  

It was also a fair chunk of my knee too! Have just been digging chunks of road out of it. ;D

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Was it oil, or just slushiness ?

Not sure. I suspect it was greasy salt-covered roads not combining well with my slicks.
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #6 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:36:47 pm »
GWS  :) (FWIW my nice new and also unscathed fleecy tights were refashioned with scissors by the ambulance crew)

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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #7 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:38:33 pm »
There's a lot of sand and stuff round here at the moment. It seems that quite a lot of sand has been used on pavements and now the snow & ice has gone, people have kindly swept it into the road.
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #8 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:39:33 pm »
It was also a fair chunk of my knee too! Have just been digging chunks of road out of it. ;D

Ah, sorry.  Nasty.

Mrs MV reckons I have the knees of a 10 year old - permanently cut and grazed :)

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I suspect it was greasy salt-covered roads not combining well with my slicks.

Seems likely.  We've had mega rain here so the roads are clean and dry (apart from the mudslides and detritus on the lanes).  I guess for those further East they're still cruddy.

Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #9 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:40:36 pm »
Addendum - should have said: apart from some knocked shifters the bike seems OK, but she will be properly inspected tomorrow.  :-[

I am stunned there were 4 replies and not one enquired after your bike  :o :-*

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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #10 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:42:40 pm »
AAAAAARRRGH!

BLOODY CAT TRYING TO SIT ON MY BLOODY KNEE!  :o

<thinks: in pre-internet days, I would have moved the cat. Now I complain to strangers hundreds of miles away instead :-[ >
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #11 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:43:00 pm »
Have a Dirty Uncle Greg kiss...  :-*

That'll make it all better!   ;D
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #12 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:47:12 pm »
GWS! Hope the bike passes its Professional Inspection.

Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #13 on: 19 January, 2010, 07:50:12 pm »
Ooh poor you :(. Hope it's all better soon. Time for a nother pair of new tights then, slightly dearer ones...
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #14 on: 19 January, 2010, 08:01:47 pm »
Poor Kathy!    :-* :-* :-*
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #15 on: 19 January, 2010, 08:03:16 pm »
AAAAAARRRGH!

BLOODY CAT TRYING TO SIT ON MY BLOODY KNEE!  :o

<thinks: in pre-internet days, I would have moved the cat. Now I complain to strangers hundreds of miles away instead :-[ >

Luckily my Bloody Cat has visited the vet more often recently than I have (or the hospital in my case, the vet doesn't deal with humans).  Talisker has probably been interjecting the opposite, although less coherently to those of us who don't understand the exact meaning of "Meow".

Glad to hear that the injuries aren't terminal to either you or the bike.  The roads are pretty crappy at the moment, with a mixture of the detritus left over from snow and rain, and a fresh crop of potholes.  On the other hand, London is a lot clearer than Essex and Suffolk were at the weekend (ie there isn't two inches of mud on the road!)
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #16 on: 19 January, 2010, 08:11:49 pm »
Hope you're OK Kathy, and the knee mends soon.

Now that the snow's all melted, you can see just how bad condition the roads are in.  The kerbs are full of grit and rubbish, whilst there are potholes everywhere.  :-\
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #17 on: 19 January, 2010, 08:30:38 pm »

It was also a fair chunk of my knee too! Have just been digging chunks of road out of it. ;D


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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #18 on: 19 January, 2010, 08:31:34 pm »
Oooh, nasty.  GWS Kathy.  :-*

Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #19 on: 19 January, 2010, 08:35:06 pm »
Your brave sacrifice has been noted by the gods.
Your brother will now enjoy a few weeks grace.
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #20 on: 19 January, 2010, 08:35:27 pm »
GWS from me too K.  :thumbsup:
I had a little rear wheel slip on the way home while coming off a roundabout into a tight left hander.
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #21 on: 19 January, 2010, 08:51:46 pm »
Ouch.  GWS
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #22 on: 19 January, 2010, 09:18:30 pm »
Ooh dear, seems to be a lot of that there 'down' about at the moment. Hope your knees are mended soon.
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #23 on: 19 January, 2010, 09:19:52 pm »
Your brave sacrifice has been noted by the gods.
Your brother will now enjoy a few weeks grace.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

have one of these on me ---> >:(
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Re: Kathy down!
« Reply #24 on: 19 January, 2010, 09:23:27 pm »
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