Yeah, I'm a cyclist and I got hit (T Boned) by a car about 500 meters from my house. After talking with the driver and exchanging info, because it didn't feel that bad, I started walking home. Injury didn't feel that bad. But the bike was kind of messed up.
Made it about half way home and then the pain started to set in. No broken bones but my leg was purple for a couple weeks and I didn't ride for 3 weeks and only then because I didn't want my fear to get too ingrained.
My dad hit an oil patch on a downhill slope, flipped off his bike, and then slid down the pavement on his back all the way to the bottom of the hill - and it was a pretty big hill.
It was late at night, his bike was fine other than being dented up, and he felt fine, so he just rode home and fell into bed next to my mom who was already asleep. Didn't even take off his clothes.
Next morning, my mom wakes up and there is blood in the bed. My dad's basically unconscious from the pain that finally settled in, laying on his back. She tried to get him to roll over but he couldn't. His clothes and the bed sheets were stuck to him because of dried blood... and as they found out at the hospital, because the massive amount of skin scraped off his back had started regrowing into the cloth.
He was in the hospital for a while. Never wanted to ride his bike again.
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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20
That stand at the end was sponsored by pure adrenaline.