I have a crash story from last week - not mine. I think this is a good thread to resurrect - I certainly learned some valuable lessons from your stories.
My friend, D, is a triathlete and has a lot of triathlete friends. They love to get their road bikes out and ride in groups. The Las Vegas Strip is a ghost town right now, and folks are taking their bikes and riding there. Last week, my friend was meeting a couple to do this very thing. When they were late, D didn’t really worry. They were arriving by bike, and maybe they were delayed. But the D’s phone rang, and the wife said there had been a crash and an ambulance was on the way. Here’s what happened. The husband was clipped in and stood up on his pedals. He was beginning a descent, and when he stood, his right foot came unclipped and his foot got caught in the spokes. He reportedly flipped several times and was unable to stand at the scene. After a lot of bungling on the part of a Vegas hospital (the joke here is “Where do you go for medical care in Las Vegas? McCarran Airport.”) he was discovered to have: a dislocated right hip with a possible hairline fracture, a broken scapula, numerous pelvic fractures and a TON of road rash on his back. He’s had two surgeries already and will be bedridden for 6 weeks. He faces a long road of PT and OT for his recovery. His story has haunted me ever since I heard. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c2a5f1c0-257b-403c-b984-338f3e044f6d%40googlegroups.com.
