W&W London Bridge Pointless Prize Log

[wheelswings]

@bikeeveryday 138635 wrote:

Yep. C6 fracture, both hands sprained, right arm bruising, right hip dislocation, right knee bruised/laceration, left big toe dislocation and fracture, and concussion. Helmet cracked all around. Thanks for the well wishes.

Good heavens that is scary!!! Especially the C6 fracture and the concussion. And no doubt it hurt like hell with all the dislocations and lacerations. Miserable! Thank goodness you are alive and on the mend. Hugs from w&w.

[wheelswings]

I hope we do not need the London Bridge Prize in 2017 because we all stay upright. But just in case, here is the thread on which to record your crashes for purposes of Freezing Saddles.

Please note: This prize is grounded in empathy. I have gone down way too many times on the ice – it can be terrifying and painful. Any humor associated with this prize is laughing with you and not at you. If you crash, you are in good company. But I hope you don’t.

This is the prize for the most crashes…London Bridge is falling down…

What constitutes a “fall” for the London Bridge prize?

To me it means you don’t catch yourself with your feet – you don’t stay upright … you actually go down in one way or another. I have no interest in getting lawyerly and technical. If you feel it was a fall, and you live to tell the tale, that is good enough.

I don’t care about your bike… I mean, I do care, but not for this prize. If your bike magically stays upright in a snowbank while you topple over the handle bars, then that counts too.

I hope you do not get hurt… I hope everyone who goes down lands in nice deep fresh snow. But if history repeats, that may not be the case.

Be safe!! Happy riding. w&w

[consularrider]

Hopefully I won’t win this prize in 2017 because I have left the icy forest trails of Kyiv behind. Two #BAFS rides so far in 2017, both with some snow, and no falls. :p

[wheelswings]

Awkward admission. This first entry in the 2017 London Bridge log is my own. I turned too abruptly and skidded on the wet bricks atop Key Bridge. My London Bridge experience was not graceful, to put it mildly. On the bright side, the result was nothing more than a garden-variety skinned knee beneath my tights, fixable with a couple BandAids that I took from the office first aid kit when nobody was looking. But the psychic pain of telling y’all is enormous.
Actually I’ve known these skinny slicks were a poor match for me, so I ordered grippier tires just last week. Hopefully I will get them soon.
In any case, just for the record, I am ineligible to win my own prize… unless perhaps I come up with something truly awesome to award, in which case I am totally in the running.

[Judd]

Near point for me on the way in. Frozen puddle in a sidewalk cutout gave me a good wiggle but I stayed upright.

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[consularrider]

My first #BAFS 2017 take down. We’ve finally had a stretch of freezing weather in Frankfurt and today I was riding on a crushed gravel path in the Volkspark Niddatal and was turning onto another path. The trail surface at the junction was more frozen mud with a sheen of gray ice and my front knobby tire on the Pugsley slid out and I went down. Bruised upper thigh and I am putting the studded Dillingers on tonight since I’ve been noticing the Surly Nate tires are pretty squirrelly on ice.

[drevil]

@consularrider 151625 wrote:

My first #BAFS 2017 take down. We’ve finally had a stretch of freezing weather in Frankfurt and today I was riding on a crushed gravel path in the Volkspark Niddatal and was turning onto another path. The trail surface at the junction was more frozen mud with a sheen of gray ice and my front knobby tire on the Pugsley slid out and I went down. Bruised upper thigh and I am putting the studded Dillingers on tonight since I’ve been noticing the Surly Nate tires are pretty squirrelly on ice.

How are the studded Dillingers? We rarely get enough ice for me to justify the cost, so I bought a couple of bags of Kold Kutter screws and plan to stud some old Nates instead.

After I’m done I will seek out and destroy all ice (like this guy)

https://youtu.be/synsozdV34I

[consularrider]

@drevil 151630 wrote:

How are the studded Dillingers? We rarely get enough ice for me to justify the cost, so I bought a couple of bags of Kold Kutter screws and plan to stud some old Nates instead.

After I’m done I will seek out and destroy all ice (like this guy)

https://youtu.be/synsozdV34I

I did four forest road rides last winter in Kyiv where there was frequent ice which I wouldn’t have considered without the studs. I still went down enough to win the London Bridge pointless prize last year, but only one was because of sliding out on the ice. I haven’t ridden them much on paved trail/roads with ice, so don’t know how they will compare to my Schwalbw Marathon Winters which I’ve used on my street bikes

[Judd]

I had my first London Bridge yesterday morning. I was turning left on to the Mt. Vernon Trail at the Merchant Memorial. Bam! I was on the ground in an instant. No wheel wiggle. No chance to save it. And it was totally unexpected. The trail had been completely dry the day before and when I checked the weather before I left, it didn’t appear that it had been below freezing the night before. But there I was, on the ground, pressed against the thinnest layer of black ice imaginable.

A very kind jogger checked to make sure I was okay. I’m really tall so I’m really good at landing on my ribs. I cracked the right side last summer on a slippery bridge and two to three months to heal. After two days, I think I’m fracture free. I’ve got a pretty good welt on my hip. I also discovered today that I have a small hole in my softshell which is a bummer because it’s really nice (and expensive) Showers Pass softshell. The Showers Pass website recommended putting waterproof tape over it and “wearing my battle scar with pride”. So I’m going to do that!

Stay safe out there people. I hope I’m the only entrant for the rest of the competition.

[Edelweiss]

Here is how it went down: I was riding into the sunset on the Northwest Branch Trail, thought it was pretty and stopped for a picture. I included it here. While stopped, a darling little black puppy ran up and jumped up on my bike, and did ciccles between my feet and the tires. A little boy came to get him, the puppy, named Ruby. We chatted a it, I was told Ruby likes to chase things. I asked the mom to keep an eye on Ruby because I was about to start riding again.
They were a few yard ahead of me, Just at the point where the trail crosses a flat wooden bridge and juts up steeply to a crosswalk. My plan was to blast past the puppy and stop at the road. Until the puppy was racing me across the bridge, eluded the mom’s grip, and then he came too close to my moving bike. I slowed down but did not have enough momentum to crest the steep hill, nor could I clip out as my forward progress ceased. I toppled over oddly, landing on my right hand and wrist, and my bike smashed into my right knee. OUCH.
I got my Lakes off the pedals, the bike was straight up in the air above me–remember, I am on a steep incline. The mom pulled it away as I got up. The puppy was fine. I am icing my knee and hand. My bike is fine. It was like falling on skis because of the hill. I will be fine, I rode the rest of the way home, about 7 miles. I am going to have a dandy bruise on my inner knee.
I am so sad to be a contestant in this Pointless Prize contest.

I have a glorious bruise and hematoma on my leg just above my inner knee, ice is helping and ithe injury is not impacting my rides. The wrist is sprained, it hurts. I am trying to take it easy, braking on a slippery wet downhil today was taxing.

[Steve O]

I always feel odd “liking” these posts. What we need for these is a “sympathize” button.

[Judd]

@Edelweiss 152633 wrote:

Here is how it went down: I was riding into the sunset on the Northwest Branch Trail, thought it was pretty and stopped for a picture….

I am so sad to be a contestant in this Pointless Prize contest.

That’s a great picture. Sorry to have you in the running for this prize. Of course, none of this would have happened if you had been spending more time eating doughnuts and less time biking. I hope the ice pack fixes everything and you recover quickly.

[Judd]

@Steve O 152655 wrote:

I always feel odd “liking” these posts. What we need for these is a “sympathize” button.

Every time that I get a shooting pain in the ribs as I get out of bed in the morning I will now think, “Steve O likes this.”

[Edelweiss]

@Judd 152662 wrote:

That’s a great picture. Sorry to have you in the running for this prize. Of course, none of this would have happened if you had been spending more time eating doughnuts and less time biking. I hope the ice pack fixes everything and you recover quickly.

Little do you know! I had a rendevous with a Doughneurer on the Trail about 10 minutes later and was slipped a fabulous Doughnut Bribe. It tasted great later that night. e

[Judd]

@Edelweiss 152737 wrote:

Little do you know! I had a rendevous with a Doughneurer on the Trail about 10 minutes later and was slipped a fabulous Doughnut Bribe. It tasted great later that night. e

Doughneuring is getting hard when I have to start stuffing doughnut bribes in my jersey just in case we cross paths.

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