[python] Re: Cautionary tale
- From: Gerald <bepb@xxxxxx>
- To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:33:28 +0200
Hi
but maybe we should set a password to this wiki page to avoid scaring
people off. The password is only communicated to hardend pythonists.
Imaging the tragedy of someone being sacred of by the python accident
page and getting a head-injury from tumbling over the handle bar of an
upright bicycle!
Cheers
Gerald
On 5.7.11 18:48 , Jürgen Mages wrote:
Ouchie Thomas. Just looking at the picture hurts as hell.
We should set up a wikipage: "Our worst python accidents" ;-)
In the last 7 years of pythoning around (~ 40.000 km) I had two major
accidents. One was when I slipped away in a muddy spot and trapped my
clipped foot under the bike, resulting in ankle pain for the next 4
months. The other accident was a spectacular 360 deg Rittberger loop
at about 40 kph, which miraculously resulted in a bruised thumb only.
Cheers,
Jürgen.
On 05.07.2011 17:34, Henry Thomas wrote:
This is my leg after coming off at about 30 kmh on a gravel road
corner, back in 2007. Fortunately nothing broke, but I lost a big
patch of skin off my shin. It took weeks in pressure bandages and
dressings to grow back.
What I learned about front wheel drive bikes is that there is lot
more load on that front wheel than other LWB recumbents and if it
does let go, there is no possibility to recover - gravity does its
work, and the ground just comes up and hits you - the leg under the
bike is trapped until you stop. Fortunately for me only about 10 feet
of gravel before I was sliding on grass - could have been worse if I
had taken the corner wider. My first thought after the initial ouch
was - man I thought I was too old to do something as stupid as that.
Commiseration's Kurt - there but for the grace of god go I (and
probably most of us) - get well soon ;)
-h
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