and this time it involves me.

im up in Lancashire with the SR tribe visiting my mum for half term, and brought my road bike with to riding some of the beautiful roads in these parts.

Anyway, on a sharp descent, I hit some leaves and began skidding before hitting the stone wall to my left.

I hit hard head-first, followed by the rest of me, and was then air-lifted to Leeds Infirmary.

I have broken my back in three places, snapped a rib clean through, and punctured a lung.

And I still love cycling.

Before and After

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Ouch, that wasn’t pleasant to read 🙁  Hope the recovery goes well…was this today?

Owwww !

Heal fast SR

Well, if you are going to go, go big! Good luck and healing vibes

Sorry to hear that. Are you going to make a full recovery?

which descent SR?

A mate did pretty much the same thing at the weekend coming off Bowland Knotts – broken vertebrae and ribs.

Blimey.

Heal up well.

Heal quick sir…

Bugger!

Shitbags!

Now you’ll have even more time to conjure up obscure forum posts!

Speedy recovery to you, fella!

Shiiiiiit

Get well soon, hope the family aren’t too shaken up.

Healing vibes fella. Hope you are back on the bike in no time

Hi mate, here’s hoping you have a fast recovery.

Sounds like it could have been even worse. Not much of a silver lining though!

At least this place will keep you entertained till you are up and bank on the bike!

Ooh eck. Nasty. I really don’t like leaves on the road. Get well soon.

Yikes.. Healing vibes from Scotland. That sounds awful. Sounds ridiculous to say but sounds like you actually got off lightly if you hit a stone wall head on.

Thank goodness for wearing a polystyrene hat eh! 😉

Shuddering shitballs, Saxon! I wish you a speedy recovery, old chap!

Thank goodness for wearing a polystyrene hat eh

Mine took a lot of impact. Completely crushed!

Ouch! Hope you get well soon. That’s the thing about road riding – speeds are higher yet you wear less protection – but can’t really be helped.

Can’t believe no-one has asked if the bike is alright yet?

Get well soon. I am in Leeds so if you need/want anything then let me know and i will happily get it for you.

Ouch!

I hope you repaired the wall whilst waiting for the ambulance.😁

Heal properly.

Holy shit… That is awful especially the back injury heal well and best put pissing off back to wherever on hold.

Holy shit dude!  Fingers crossed for a rapid recovery!

Oof, sounds like you were possibly lucky to only get those injuries!  I’ve done similar once coming off Llangattock mountain back when I was young and somehow managed to ragdoll over the wall (now a hedge) and get away with just cuts, bruises and a bit of concussion.  Bike was a write-off.  Still to this day I feel more exposed to danger on the road bike than the MTB, speeds and kinetic energy are just higher.

Good luck in the recovery.

Buggerz!!! Fingers crossed mate.

Head impact eh? Do you remember that £5K I loaned you?

Ah crap, healing vibes, from here!! I also crashed, but pathetically (see chat forum!)

I’ll pray for a full and speedy recovery…. not because I think it’ll help much, mostly to piss off Woppit.

I am pleased to hear that you are well enough to post! Heal fast.

And yes I love cycling despite watching my club mate die in fromt of me on a ride. Rode over the crash site with two other members of the ill fated group and four more riders but two hours ago. Cycling must build resilience.

Recovery starts now. You’ll be dragging the chest drain around like Jacob Marley.  Take the pain relief. I speak from experience.

Damn that sounds bad! I hope you heal quick.

Ouch.

Jeez, quick healing SR

Healing vibes!

Bloody hell. Hope you heal quickly and there’s no lasting damage

Did you get a ride in a helicopter?

Bike ok? 🙂

GWS saxon

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Get well soon!

OOOF.

GWS.

Currently recovering in neck brace and back brace from mine. Hope you have no nerve damage. Give the concussion and body time to heal, I think I was over 4 weeks till my head was right-ish, don’t remember the first 5 days in hospital. Even now it isn’t 100%. You’ll possibly get tired very easily. recommend walking gently once you are mobile, building up. Once the doctors say you can, if you have a smart trainer get onto zwift gently. I’d never used it before, now doing easy-ish rides on it, not as good as outdoors but much better than nothing and decent variety on the courses. Good luck and stay positive.

Get well soon fella.

Well that little lot isn’t a trivial set of injuries.

Get well soon, and don’t hurry it.

In the meantime there’s probably a gravel bike thread here that will last out your recuperation period… 🙂