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While I was doing my bike ride, my middle brother had a bike crash. He was out with friends riding, went ahead and lost it on a corner. The bike went in a ditch, he went into the field. He broke his shoulder blade and his hip bone in 3 places. Worse thing was, his mates didn't see it happen and thought he'd gone home. He was in the field for 30 mins before another biker caught sight of him out of the corner of his eye.

He's now in the Lister, Stevenage for God knows how long. He was supposed to be on holiday today for a 2 weeks cruise, too.

CAN I REMIND ALL BIKERS ON HERE TO BE CAREFUL PLEASE.

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Yes, I have a mad biker brother called Ade (or Sid, as he's affectionately known).

He's had many a bike and unfortunately many a crash too. This one could have been much worse and I believe he was super lucky.

Not asked him about the bike but sounds like it's wrecked.

He's probably got a brochure in the hospital looking at a new one though.

He must be a cat, the amount of lives he's used up.

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Get well soon to him.

Scary that people get left behind. Some people have been less fortunate - knocked out in a ditch and drowned without buddies noticing :-/

I use the Realrider app on my phone when riding country roads. It detects accidents and even activates a process that will send an ambulance to your location should you not respond.

Ride safe all.

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Get well soon to him.

Scary that people get left behind. Some people have been less fortunate - knocked out in a ditch and drowned without buddies noticing :-/

I use the Realrider app on my phone when riding country roads. It detects accidents and even activates a process that will send an ambulance to your location should you not respond.

Ride safe all.

I'll check if he knows about that app, Scotty. Sounds a great idea. Thanks.

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I broke my femur on a bike. It hurt having extra knees between your knee and pelvis.

k nail is the way forward (u shape titanium tube pushed through a hole drilled in the top of the hip bone that covers the full length of the femur). They do have to unzip the thigh to allow the surgeons to straighten the broken bits so the k nail can get through the centre of each broken bit.

Leaves quite a nasty scar, but on the plus side avoids 10 weeks of static traction (I had that as well) and will allow weight bearing much more quickly.

If the breaks are really splintered then they plate the femur rather than k nail it. Plate works just as well, but means the healing process is longer and unlikely the k nail, removal in a year or two can't be done.

There is an issue with non removal, if ever he had the same injury the metal of either the plate or the nail can deform, bend, twist and that means the next potential injury would be significantly worse (I know someone that lost there leg by crashing with a k nail in).

So best no more biking until or if metal can be removed.

Hope he recovers quickly.

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Sorry to hear that, hope he recovers quickly.

Not motorbikes, but a load of my mates that go mountain biking over the south downs simply use the 'find my friends' app on their iPhones when they are out and about incase anyone gets separated/lost.

The lost party will normally be found sitting in the nearest pub!

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Hope he gets well soon Luke.

 

My best mate had a similar accident: Bought a brand new Fireblade when he was living in Oxford. He had only had it for a week and decided to drive up to Leicester on it. He was five minutes from home on a back road, went round a bend and a tractor had driven out of field and left wet mud on the road. He slid on it and ended up in a ditch. He was there was hours with a badly broken ankle until a passenger in a car spotted him.

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Get well soon from the TSN gang - every time I think about getting a bike I end up reading something like this thread. Its then I realise that, despite the fun, its probably safer to stick to 4 wheels...

Too true, Bazza. My heart kept telling me to go and look at bikes and this has told my head to get a grip! Still, I did 42mph down the side of a massively rocky downhill on Sunday!

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Cycling versus Motorcycling ....

 

I used to cycle all the time. I did time trials and track (velodrome) racing and trained 7 days a week. Cycling is in my family (my nan was still doing 16miles a day at 82 years old).

 

When it came to motorbikes I'm the only one in the immediate family to ride. My father in law did as a youth but it wasn't long lived.

 

Lots of family saying I shouldn't etc .... until I compared the two :

 

Lycra Vs Leathers & armour

Cycling helmet Vs Motorbike helmet

Riding on the road being passed by everything going >40mph faster than you Vs travelling at similar speeds to the traffic

Cycle lights Vs HIDs etc

...

...

Gloves

Horn

Can escape left right backwards AND accelerate out of trouble

 

The list went on.

 

People were generally persuaded. I also did some Advanced training etc

 

I even convinced myself.

 

However, white van man has got me three times in the past 7 years and approx 80,000 miles. Only one was significant resulting in a shoulder popping out.

 

I'm not sure if that proves it's more dangerous though. I wouldn't have done that many miles cycling and I commute in and out of London which is possibly the riskiest thing to do and I think proven with my White Van Man attraction.

 

I'm pretty sure in London they'll be higher KSI figures for cyclists than m/bike riders. For Essex i'd guess it'd be the other way around.

 

Either way all on two wheels are exposed and don't have crumple zones etc. I could do the train again but I think I'd either have a heart attack from frustration or top myself. That being the case I place riding as lower risk   ;)   +++

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Nice way of looking to it, Scotty.

One of the main reasons I ride mountain bikes is that I ride 95% off road. I'm way too scared to bike on the road. That too has it's dangers but for really rough stuff there is plenty of excellent body armour and gloves.

Everything is a risk at the end of the day.

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