It was the UK singlespeed champs today. Good course but I was a DNF. I fell off on one descent and broke my collar bone in three places. Arm in sling for next several weeks.

Gonna have to learn to love that turbo trainer…

Dan

Bloody hell not good fella……Hope your not off the bike too long!

What a bugger!  Sorry to hear that Dan.  You should've come on the club run instead.

Take it easy

Cheers, fellers. It could have been worse. Back at the fracture clinic tomorrow for a checkup, but the x-rays say I haven't bust my 'upper humerous' which one of the paramedics mentioned as a possibility after checking on the swelling. Just bored really. Already. Am under orders to take it easy. 

It wasn't even a particularly difficult bit of the course. Just a schoolboy error that had me hitting a big (enough) rock, stopping the front wheel dead. Happened on the black route, just over the fireroad from where the north-shore-in-a-ditch bit ends. The route followed the NPS route to begin with, then down Worry Gill, up those zig zag hairpins on the red/black, over to Crosscliff where there's a new bit of trail (some of it quite technical). Fireroad climb back up to join the black route, diverging off near Jingleby Drop (which it didn't go over) to rejoin the NPS route (kinda). So a good course in all. Most of it rideable on a singlespeed (except for one or two short climb sections). 

Hopefully back on the road (and off-road) late July… 

If you had been riding a 24″ wheel bike instead of those silly big ones  perhaps the fall to the ground would not have been so painful. Probably brings its' own problems tho'. 

Just as long as you don't spend your newly found leisure time composing letters to the various civil claims solicitors; the risk assessments were good, but I'd rather not test them.

Keep your pecker up…