So the other day, I just wanna go for a quick ride around my valley and take advantage of the nice sunny weather… Pull out of the farm, ride down the hill, and get ready to turn from the access road into the main road… bank the bike over, screw on the power to accelerate out of the turn and…
…whoooops – out slips the rear tire – SAND!!! Mother****er… The leaning angle increases and then, when the bike is approximately perpendicular to the intented path of travel, the tire grips again…
The result: the bike violently flips from right to left, launching me well into the air like a bull shakes off a rodeo rider, then smashes hard into the tarmac.
Like a ragdoll I fly through the air and land with a hard “CRUNCH”.
Get up, right arm hangs limply from my side, can’t lift it, can’t move it – yup, shoulder dislocated.
Some nice Norwegian bloke pulls up in his car and says “Ahh, shoulder dislocated? Oh I have done that loads of time falling on the ice. Let me drive you to the hospital.”
By the time I get to the hospital I’m in SERIOUS pain, several injections help very little, eventually, on the 2nd attempt they manage to put my arm back into the socket where it belongs.
Still can’t really use the arm too much now, might need some surgery to put my shoulder right, I’ll find out next Monday when they take more x-rays. Right now I can’t even raise it far enough for the classic German greeting
Bike has bent handlebars, bent shifter, broke off left mirror and a piece of the clutch lever, no big deal really. Shifter can be bent back, and mirror, clutch lever and handlebars will have to be replaced when I have spares, until then it’s rideable. (Sickpup, got anything you wanna sell to me?)
So long… be careful out there. Sand kills just like diesel spills.