I can?t stop crashing
I think I?ve got a problem. I can?t stop crashing. And unfortunately it?s not a new phenomenon. I?ve spent my whole life riding, and usually crashing motorbikes. You?d have thought that someone who?s spent 25 years riding (and racing) bikes at any given opportunity ought to be half decent at it by now. Or you?d expect at the very least they?d be able to avoid hurling themselves off it every five minutes. Well unfortunately, as far as I?m concerned, that doesn?t seem to be the case.
Because as I write this, I happen to be nursing a freshly broken finger. It?s not a bad break, you can barely see it on the xray, but it?s on the index finger of my right hand so it?s a proper nuisance. How did that happen" Yep, you guessed it; I fell off a bike. A trials bike this time. A trials bike on which I was doing about 1mph at the time. This is about six months after I broke my wrist, and about four months after I broke my leg. It?s getting beyond a joke.
You could be forgiven for thinking that I?ve got something wrong with my bones. You wouldn?t be the first person to think that. I can remember visiting a physiotherapist a few years ago, after yet another crash, and her asking me if I?d had any other injuries, and if I could list them for her. ?What, all of them"? was my reply. The poor girl had just about run out of room on her notepad by the time I?d told her about the feet, ankles, legs, pelvis, spine, fingers and hands I?d broken over the years. Of course, sh...
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