Thankyou all, well-wishers and piss takers is equal measure!
Rest assured, the real world of work has also been full of pirate and evil dead comparisons.
I threw the deformed dude from the film ‘300’ into the mix too.
I seem to be generally well enough, but I do feel like I’ve been hit by a truck.
Big props to Candodavid for doing what friends do. I salute you sir.
It happened on a completely ordinary, loose stone double track I’ve ridden probably a couple of hundred times – Perhaps a ‘case of familiarity breeds contempt’. For those in the know, this was between Warren House (demolished) and Rowberrow bottom on the Mendips.
As to what happened – no idea, the last I recall was thinking ‘Oooh, front wheel drift on the loose’ next thing I know is Dave telling me to stay still.
From the look of other more ancillary damage about my person, it looks like a front wheel tuck with enough speed to roll over with the bike completely and then the bike slamming into the ground, thus stopping the next roll. Its all supposition though.
I was wearing a helmet, it is cracked and, given the scale of the bruising and depth of cuts, I’m pretty certain it prevented me from pushing little bits of skull and rock into my brain.