I'm sorry to hear that. I had a similar event a few years ago on a "new bike day". I was riding along on my new-to-me Atlantis and taking a turn at what seemed like a safe speed. I think my tires hit a dense patch of goose poop, causing the wheels to go out from under me. I barely remembered the event, as it also happened very quickly. Most of my memory is in the immediate events afterwards, such as putting my finger back in place instinctively, realizing that doing so caused absolutely no pain and felt like popping a knuckle.
I found myself very fortunate, though I did have some moderate injuries, much less than yours. I hope your recoveries go faster than mine, because it took several months before I was comfortable supporting my upper body on my wrist, then years to fully heal in my shoulder, particularly if I had to lift my arms above my head. I cannot say much about riding upright, as I have not been too interested in doing so. I did try moustache bars on the Atlantis after the crash and it did help with remove some weight off my wrists, but I was never all that happy with them. I then tried the old variety of crazy bars from VO, but I liked those even less(too wide). I'm back to the original drop bars now. I hope you can get back on the bike as soon as you would like. On Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 4:09:46 PM UTC-6 Jim Bronson wrote: > Hi folks, > > Well we had a warm rainy Thanksgiving morning here in the greater Austin > area. I thought it might be a good thing to go ride around for an hour or > so to try to burn a few calories before consuming several thousand and of > course as always for enjoyment. Being a native (Western) Oregonian the > rain is rarely a problem for me so off I went. > > Well my ride came to an unfortunate end after about 5 miles exiting a > traffic circle. I was taking a right to exit when the bike went right out > from under me as fast as I can ever remember one doing so. I never jerked > the handlebars or anything, it was just the same smooth steady motion that > I have used 20 or 30 times before on this same traffic circle. But this > time I was down on the ground in a flash. > > Being that my Clem is in stock configuration and is a 65, I had a fair > distance to fall. Unfortunately I broke my fibia and the fracture extends > to the bottom of my knee joint. I won't be needing surgery but I cannot > put any weight on it for 6 weeks minimum. We'll see what the orthopedic > surgeon says after that. > > The net effect of all this is that I'm thinking of putting drops on my > Clem when I get back to riding again. I know it isn't how Grant intended > it, but the extremely upright position of the Clem now has me thinking > maybe it's not so good to be so high in the air if I have another fall at > some point. I know this is driven by fear, but, I've often thought of > "dropping my Clem" in the past and this may just be the push I need in > order to do it. > > I know this is the opposite of what people in their 50s are usually doing > but I am very comfortable riding drops and many days I will take my 650B > converted Road Standard for just that reason. on this particular day I > took the Clem because I didn't want some rain-loosened sharp rock to > puncture the somewhat fragile Compass tires on my Road Standard. > > So anyway. > Prove me wrong! > Drops for Clem 2022! > > -Jim > austin suburbs, tx > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > signature goes here > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3b053734-a763-4d21-952d-f5bd5231f016n%40googlegroups.com.
