YTC - that'll be me

I did a very stupid thing - on the plus side, I've learnt from it. But
on the downside, I'm still looking at 2 more weeks before I can get back
on the bike.

I went to Greece to shoot a mate's wedding (or a mate at his wedding, I
can't remember the original brief so I just took photos). That's not the
stupid thing.

The really stupid thing was renting a scooter on the island of Amorgos.
I ended up following said scooter down a gravel / asphalt road for a
while after falling off of it at about 20km/h. Thankfully we were going
so slowly when it binned, but I dropped a bike with my wife on the back,
and I really don't feel so good about that.

Had we done the same thing in London, I would have been wearing all my
gear and walked away without a scratch. As it is, I have one broken bone
in my right foot, a load of gravel rash of which a small part is
infected despite the anti-biotics and my wife has bruising to her
fingers and wrist (thank gawds for all the skydiving falling down
training - that kept my hands intact). The lid kept my brain bin intact
through three impacts with the tarmac so that was a big plus!

When we got back to the UK the following day, we went to the A&E but so
far over the course of a week, we've only been seen by one doctor for
around 5 minutes. 3 different nurses have typed at us for varying
lengths of time, and it finally took my local practice nurse to actually
notice anything wrong - which is about usual. It's just a pity I can't
get anyone to look at my head or my foot where the real pain is, but I
guess I'll live.

The moral of this story is that I should have been wearing gear. From
now on, I'll never be found on a motorised two wheel device without at
least gloves, boots, a lid and at least some kind of abrasion resistant
top.

Lemming falls down - fancy that...

 

What about Mrs Lemming?

 

As Pip said to me when I did a similar thing a couple of months ago,
albeit with less damage to self and wife - it's easy to do, easier
still to beat yourself up about it. You're in better company than you
might realise!

GWS to you both.

 

what, you and Bear?

jesus.

 

Well he did sound pretty depressed.

 

I assume that was aimed at me ?

Mrs Lemming would have been wearing gear too - I'm more arsey about what
she wears on the bike than I am about what I wear.

I think she's ok after this one. She did have something soft to slid on
(me) and she can still smack me in the head for making bad jokes, which
is my usual benchmark for her fitness levels.

 

Ouch - I'm hoping that if / when a doctor gets around to actually
looking at me instead of typing at me, I'll just have the grazes and
bits to live with, and no rehab or anything painful like that.

I'm pretty sure I'll never feel like it though. I'll stick to riding in
summer in the UK and go to nice warm places when they are less warm so I
don't get tempted to be more stupid than usual (which is pretty hard
when I consider my usual levels of stupid)

You only have this one example to go on, so don't close the polls on
this just yet!

 

I'm taking bets...

 

<reads post>
Nope, not YTC material, just unfortunate, pure and simple. We all crash
sometime or other.

Oh, I dunno, shooting a friend at his wedding is pretty stupid.

Nowt daft about that.

I bet she ain't too happy either

Just because you wear the gear, does not mean you will get away without a
scratch.

Personal choice.

But GWS anyway, and hope the wife gets over it as well.

 

Huh ? I think there may be a surplus of lemmings around here because
that can't have been me - I only arrived in this country in 99 and
didn't start riding until about 3 years later.

 

I've heard tale of holiday reps taking photos of people who've dropped off
peds and showing them to all the new arrivals as a warning. Seems to happen
a lot.

 

Yep, sounds right

I used to be a "leather" up bod back then, but since 2001 have had a more
devil may care/its your choice attitude