In a discussion about bike wear in an online forum I wrote the following real live story which I thought I should post it here as well….
When I was a boy, during a time when Hong Kong was still building its Mass Transit Railway (underground subway), I lived nearby a station to be where the roads were dug up and replaced with steel slabs for the construction work. I rode my bike through one day at maxed out speed and I must have hit some small piece of rock or something which threw me off nose first. Just as I was watching the steel slab ground getting closer to my face, I managed to turn myself around with the bike on top of me. My back hit the ground and my bike and I must have slid at least 50 ft before coming to a stop. As I didn’t feel much differently, I thought I was unhurt with just some bruises and a sweat in the back.
I picked up my bike and started walking home.
It wasn’t until some female pedestrian walked passed me and screamed really loud that I realized the entire back of my white shirt was covered with blood and still running (the sweat I thought). After I got home and saw my mom and dad who were watching TV at the time, as I told them I was badly hurt they had no idea what I was talking about until I turn myself around and my mom screamed….
A trip to the doctor’s office reviewed that luckily, it was only flesh wounds on my back and arms.
That was the bigger of the two accidents that I had.
The smaller one happened earlier in my life and I cut my eyelid. The sight of the view with blood flooded my eye was definitely a sight for sore eye in that sense to say the least. That’s the time I think a helmet would have prevented the cut.
A helmet to me is still a sense of fashion and I didn’t like the look of the one I have in the last few years, so maybe that’s why I’ve never worn it. I just bought a new helmet yesterday that I like much better, and hopefully I would start wearing it.
I stick with traffic rules just as I drive my car and perhaps even more carefully so when I ride. I hate those who ride through red lights with some even go through the opposite way of the traffic.
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