“Having said that I know a fella who went over last December on some black ice on his way into work, on a slowish B road corner, Broke his Hip and was off the bike and relatively imobile for a long while as a result…”
There was a thread on tt’ing forum a year or so ago about ice and resultant broken hips, can be a very very nasty injury requiring hip replacement which iirc has a limited lifespan so one may need a couple of big op’s over ones lifetime for this reason. After a clubmate broke his hip just going slowly and hitting ice(mid thirties broke it two years ago still not fixed 100%) I tend to avoid ice and go off road instead