Jesus… first crash in my Triride
I braked hard, thinking I could brake as hard as I wanted to… and I flew over the handlebars. Echos of 2013.

This time I didn’t break anything ( well as far as I know ) but F me my chest and right arm are now hurting, particularly when I cough.

Once again I was lying in the middle of the road – this time in Brentford and not on a remote mountain road.
I was at a crossroads and waited for the green traffic light, which I ‘ predicted ‘ as there was nothing coming.. but suddenly there was a man crossing the road in front of me.
My fault of course.. and I braked hard.

5 people came to my rescue. One strong fella put his arms around me and picked me up almost by himself I think. The Triride had come off, my glasses were broken, my phone was on the road, my lanyard had shot off my neck. Of course people asked if I needed help but of course it’s not every day that a bloke can’t do anything to help himself. I’m just lying there, explaining I can’t move my legs, but I was already like that before this crash.

People were extremely helpful, I have to say. It’s probably good I crashed in Brentford, where perhaps people are used to seeing me … I don’t know.

Christ I’ll be extra alert from now on.
I had no idea that I even would be able to fly over the handlebars, from a wheelchair attached to a Triride… but now I do. I think I assumed my powered back wheels had a braking mechanism ( to a degree) but they clearly don’t and it’s 2013 all over again.

I have a cut on my forearm and my head was bleeding a fair bit, but both stopped bleeding. I must have hit the road chest first, which is a bit weird but hey.
I had a science talk to go to tonight with Marky P… but I’m not going now.
I think the pain is going to get worse for a day or three.

I’ve probably been fortunate to have done so many miles on the London roads and not crashed before tbh.. I was thinking that just the other bloody day.
I don’t think I’ve done anything to my lower body, but how would I know?
The metal rods inside me are stronger than my spine would have been, or course… otherwise perhaps I’d be snapped in half again.

I’m at a coffee shop and I detached from my Triride ( which I seem to have done something to – electronically- as the function display shows an error ) and I now have to reattach.
The way I do it relies on a fair amount of arm strength and I can’t use my right one that much at the moment.

Let’s hope I can get the thing on.