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Feel free to post up your road rash and and broken parts.

This resulted from a pedal strike and high side at 35mph in the last corner of a crit. On a motor racing circuit so I slid across the exit curbing at 30mph...

Had the race won too, only needed to make it through that corner.

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Just happy u didn't break anything on your body mate hope u heal up fast and bikes not to bad to get back on the road

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indeed.. seems you escaped the usual collerbone injury. Those hands... I wear full gloves for that very reason, will still get banged up but hope for less skin loss.

Heal up !

This spring I've crashed during Dirty Reiver 200, a gravel race in Northern England; it was my second time, but this time round the conditions were brutal, rainy, muddy, the whole lot.

I had no ambitions of placing well, but my brain decided it was a great idea to descend faster than my limited technical skills would allow. Plenty of folks were going (sensibly) very slow, whilst others (presumably, seasoned off-roadies) were going so fast - my brain made the unconscious decision that despite my limited off-road background, I could be part of the latter group.

I had passed a few people with no issues on double tracks by switching lanes (and going through the gritty, loose, muddy middle bits) with no issues at all. Then I tried it again on a shallow descent at maybe 30-something kmh, and suddenly my front end disappeared, and went flying on the gravel.. The speeds were relatively low, but it hurt nevertheless.

Pretty banged up and some rash (gravel rash means a lot of dirt having to be removed from the wound. 0/5 would not recommend), and I had to DNF. Luckily nothing broken, and after a couple weeks I was fine to cycle again.

This is probabaly the only thread that i hope isn't a busy one,

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