“Came a cropper”
Posted in General | By tim |
I was cycling home the other night, about 11pm, along a luckily deserted stretch of road near home, when this happened:
For the uninitiated, that’s the seat post off my bike and yes the saddle just sheared off…
Other than being further evidence that I must be fat, this was a pretty nasty incident – because the bike shot out in front of me and I landed on the tarmac on my coccyx.
For the first few moments I was winded and could hardly breathe – then finally I came to my senses and got off the road – my back was in agony and I thought I might have broken something. Luckily I hadn’t but I’ve been walking round like an old man for 3 days now and it’s very painful to sit down in the wrong way!
Anyway, bloody painful experience and I’m lucky it didn’t happen on busier roads earlier in my journey. Am wondering if I should report this to the bike manufacturers as it seems the seat post might have been defective for it to shear like that.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
You didn’t tell us about this nasty accident! Perhaps you should have been to have it checked out or x-rayed, it’s easy to do damage.
Hope the pain is easing a bit now. I think you should complain to the manufacturer at the very least and try to get them to replace free, surely these sort of things aren’t expected to happen! You may use your bike a lot but you are not regularly going over rutted or rough ground etc are you?
Love, Mum xx
May 29th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
I should think it’s a major fault in the design and certainly should not have happened after what, 18 months. Take them to task! Injurylawyers for U???
Glad you are on the mend anyway. Get S to rub it for you!!!
Love Dad