So if the world hasn't heard, I crashed my bike on Sunday. I think the way I did it is pretty rediculous but I'm not at all embarassed. Should I be?
When me/Luke/Utah started mountain biking we started riding about a decade ago we had/have a friend Chris who had supposedly been biking for awhile who broke his leg in a rather embarrassing way. So why not a poll to see what people think is a more embarrassing story.
Chris: So me/Luke/Chris went for a ride at Lewis Morris, parking at the dirt lot on 24. At one point Chris falls and thinks he broke his wrist. Turns out he did not break his wrist. After our ride (back then probably 3 hours and 4 miles and 2 gallons of sweat) we're talking in the dirt area near the lake/bridge/end of race course. Chris says "Hey how do you Wheeli-" He gets his front wheel up in the air as he says this and before finishing fucks up dabs his foot down hard into the ground SNAP breaks his leg. Or so he says. He stomped his foot on dirt ground so there was no way his leg was broken.
So he's lying on the ground in a shitload of pain while me and Luke are telling him to stop whining because his leg is NOT broken. A biker comes by, takes a look at Chris for a minute and tell us our friend's leg is broken... Ambulance, hospital, leg is broken.
So of course the whole time after in crutches while out someone would ask how he broke his leg and he'd reply "Mountain biking". And I'd interject with "Well, he wasn't really mountain biking AT THE TIME..." He was not a fan of that at all. I'm not sure if it was the accident or what but he mostly gave up biking.
Me: So typically on holidays I bike over to my parent's so I don't lose my parking spot at my apartment because I live in Hipster Morristown with no car parking. So after a hotter than usual road ride on the cross bike (Cross is coming or something) with a forgotten water bottle I'm on my parent's street. As I come up to the house the house I see my family walking up the stairs into the house with my ex-girlfriend's mom. I hop up onto the front lawn over the curb like I've done a million times. Not sure if I'm going super fast, I'm hot and not paying attention, distracted by my ex-gfs mom at the house or what but I tapped the rear tire against the curb my bike pivots over the front wheel. I *almost* rolled out of it but went down super hard.
Of course I get up like nothing happened. That's what you're supposed to do in that situation. I calmly walk my bike in my left hand towards the backyard to lean up against the house wondering if I should be worried. Something seems more wrong than usual post-crash. So my ex-gf is there randomly getting a rug from my parents. Now I haven't seen her in forever and she's SUPER pregnant and about to burst. So I'm trying to talk to her about being pregnant while she's semi-freaking out as there's something obviously wrong with me, or she is nervous about the pregnancy. Not sure. I'm sweating 10x more than I should be and I seem to be using my left hand/arm for everything. And pretty much realized realized what it means to go into shock.
After a few minutes I'm just like "Well, it's been fun, but I'm 90% sure I broke my collarbone based on these crunchy sounds and the fact that I'm kind of not using the right side of my body, can you take a look. I move my shirt a bit and things are clearly not where they're supposed to be.
So my father, on Father's day after loading a rug into a car got to drive me to the hospital where my clavicle was broken into 4 pieces.
So not being a simple "I got hit by a car" or "I slid out on a root" type of accident, I felt there needed to be some backstory to it. Was a stupid crash that was 100% my fault. But shit happens. I'm glad that at no point was I not 100% wanting to get back on the bike. My thought while standing there at the house thinking my collarbone was broken was "Damnit, this summer is just beginning and has been so nice".
And I had to wonder, was it possible that I could have a more embarrassing story than Chris? I don't think so because of the fact that I find it hilarious.
-Steve
Side note: Embarrassing is a word that's spelled as poorly at Wednesday
When me/Luke/Utah started mountain biking we started riding about a decade ago we had/have a friend Chris who had supposedly been biking for awhile who broke his leg in a rather embarrassing way. So why not a poll to see what people think is a more embarrassing story.
Chris: So me/Luke/Chris went for a ride at Lewis Morris, parking at the dirt lot on 24. At one point Chris falls and thinks he broke his wrist. Turns out he did not break his wrist. After our ride (back then probably 3 hours and 4 miles and 2 gallons of sweat) we're talking in the dirt area near the lake/bridge/end of race course. Chris says "Hey how do you Wheeli-" He gets his front wheel up in the air as he says this and before finishing fucks up dabs his foot down hard into the ground SNAP breaks his leg. Or so he says. He stomped his foot on dirt ground so there was no way his leg was broken.
So he's lying on the ground in a shitload of pain while me and Luke are telling him to stop whining because his leg is NOT broken. A biker comes by, takes a look at Chris for a minute and tell us our friend's leg is broken... Ambulance, hospital, leg is broken.
So of course the whole time after in crutches while out someone would ask how he broke his leg and he'd reply "Mountain biking". And I'd interject with "Well, he wasn't really mountain biking AT THE TIME..." He was not a fan of that at all. I'm not sure if it was the accident or what but he mostly gave up biking.
Me: So typically on holidays I bike over to my parent's so I don't lose my parking spot at my apartment because I live in Hipster Morristown with no car parking. So after a hotter than usual road ride on the cross bike (Cross is coming or something) with a forgotten water bottle I'm on my parent's street. As I come up to the house the house I see my family walking up the stairs into the house with my ex-girlfriend's mom. I hop up onto the front lawn over the curb like I've done a million times. Not sure if I'm going super fast, I'm hot and not paying attention, distracted by my ex-gfs mom at the house or what but I tapped the rear tire against the curb my bike pivots over the front wheel. I *almost* rolled out of it but went down super hard.
Of course I get up like nothing happened. That's what you're supposed to do in that situation. I calmly walk my bike in my left hand towards the backyard to lean up against the house wondering if I should be worried. Something seems more wrong than usual post-crash. So my ex-gf is there randomly getting a rug from my parents. Now I haven't seen her in forever and she's SUPER pregnant and about to burst. So I'm trying to talk to her about being pregnant while she's semi-freaking out as there's something obviously wrong with me, or she is nervous about the pregnancy. Not sure. I'm sweating 10x more than I should be and I seem to be using my left hand/arm for everything. And pretty much realized realized what it means to go into shock.
After a few minutes I'm just like "Well, it's been fun, but I'm 90% sure I broke my collarbone based on these crunchy sounds and the fact that I'm kind of not using the right side of my body, can you take a look. I move my shirt a bit and things are clearly not where they're supposed to be.
So my father, on Father's day after loading a rug into a car got to drive me to the hospital where my clavicle was broken into 4 pieces.
So not being a simple "I got hit by a car" or "I slid out on a root" type of accident, I felt there needed to be some backstory to it. Was a stupid crash that was 100% my fault. But shit happens. I'm glad that at no point was I not 100% wanting to get back on the bike. My thought while standing there at the house thinking my collarbone was broken was "Damnit, this summer is just beginning and has been so nice".
And I had to wonder, was it possible that I could have a more embarrassing story than Chris? I don't think so because of the fact that I find it hilarious.
-Steve
Side note: Embarrassing is a word that's spelled as poorly at Wednesday
