Crash with broken frame and grazes

So on the Bacon ride on 2004-01-24 (Mal's birthday) I had a pretty nasty crash on an open easy fireroad. I was attempting to pass Jim, at a significantly faster speed. As I passed he drifted toward the side I was passing on (I didnt yell out passing or anything, oops), almost past I hooked my bars with his. Jim got off with a graze on an elbow, I had many grazes and a broken bike frame. The photos are below.

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IF you loo you can see the forks are vertical and the seat post is on a different agnle, indication of the breaks in the tubes.

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A Long view of the break in the down tube.

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A close up (blurry) of the break in the tob tube.

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A clear shot of the same top tube break, you can see a hole here allowing one to see the inside of the tube....

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And my helmet had a bit of a bang, peak snapped more, two large cracks in the foam through two sections in the top and big dints, time to get another helmet for the second time in about a year.

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The frame does not look quite so broken from this distance. With the helmet thing I did have some concussion stuff again, I can not clearly remember all the activity after the crash, the bandaging me up, riding down to Manuka etc.

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The top of the worset graze (on my right knee).

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A Good view of the fram showing both breaks.

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And a back view showing how crooked it now is, I am amazed I rode it from red hill down to manuka.

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My right elbow.

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My right knee after bandage removal.

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The graze where my knicks were protecting the skin a little bit. Not so open and bloody.

Steven Hanley <sjh@svana.org>
Last modified: Sun Jan 25 21:44:42 EST 2004