crashed my bike a few days ago...

[Emba]

So I went to the nearby town to stock up on food and crashed my recumbent motor bicycle on the way home.

I was going full throttle (single speed friction drive) and very slow, up the local "mountain" with a full load in my trailer.

I drifted off the shoulder mound and dropped off about 5-6" of asphalt into dirt. I tried to turn to get back on the surface and couldn't. Recumbents have crappy steering at slow speeds so I tipped over.

It took a few seconds to turn off the engine as I was all sideways. It was reving and I was afraid it would eat my tire.

My leg got twisted and pinned under the bike and me as I crashed. Skinned knee. And big pain. For a second I thought I should call someone for help. Lol. As if... My recumbent is 8 feet long. The trailer is four feet long and loaded with stuff.

I pushed it the rest of the way up the hill - "mountain" - and started it up. Nothing was to loose... Then I rode the 6~ miles home on my twisted seat in shock. I had no other options.

After I put everything away and got my bike in the house the pain started. (Yea shock!)

I couldn't sleep because of the pain. Needed a piss bottle!

I couldn't fucking walk for two days and needed two canes to shuffle around to deal with my chores.

Luckily I had some dmso and aloe stuff and slathered that on my knee. That's some great stuff! It still hurts but I can walk. Pulled my knee ligaments.

For a while I thought it was, over. Since I need to walk. But I'm ok now.

 

[TheSecondComing]

brutal. At least your bike isn't trashed

 

[Emba]

brutal. At least your bike isn't trashed

Yeah I got pretty lucky. Thing cost as much as a good used car. Loosen, adjust, and retighten up some stuff and good to go.

 

[NEETard]

Brutal bikepill

 

[jerrycan dan]

Good on you bro, I'm glad that at least you were dealt something a lot better than you could have been

 

[Dionysus]

this is why i never bike

 

[keithbauhaus]

Glad you're okay, man -- it definitely could have been a lot worse. Hopefully you can hit the road on it again soon.

How are recumbent bikes anyway in terms of pleasure/exercise? Do you like them better than road bikes (aside from this one-off incident, of course)? The bike I currently have is fun to shift gears on, but I now have chronic lower back pain because of the impractical position it puts my body in.

 

[Emba]

Good on you bro, I'm glad that at least you were dealt something a lot better than you could have been

Thanks br0. I'm lucky in some ways anyway.

Glad you're okay, man -- it definitely could have been a lot worse. Hopefully you can hit the road on it again soon.

How are recumbent bikes anyway in terms of pleasure/exercise? Do you like them better than road bikes (aside from this one-off incident, of course)? The bike I currently have is fun to shift gears on, but I now have chronic lower back pain because of the impractical position it puts my body in.

For me it was upper back and neck pain that made me want one. It's nice. Weird and un-bike-like for sure. But comfortable.

As far as fun riding it's great! But I'm more of a srs rider.

It took about 6 months before I could ride it well. That's from after decades of upright diamond framed bikes. It took about a year of lightly riding it before realizing I needed to motorize it for the hills and going to the real town and hauling stuff. It sucks on hills with more than 20 pounds of stuff.