Comments on: Free Verse Friday: The Post-Crash Lament

By: Fat Cyclist » Blog Archive » Race Report: The 2013 100 Miles of Nowhere

Tue, 28 May 2013 15:54:29 +0000

[...] right wrist, which got hurt pretty badly in my recent fall, didn’t feel great, even on my first lap. “I wonder if a rigid fork was perhaps not the [...]

By: Rocacorba Daily | Cycling Tips

Rocacorba Daily | Cycling Tips — Mon, 13 May 2013 22:55:57 +0000

[...] out the full poem here. Got a favourite piece of cycling poetry? Why not share it with us in the comments below [...]

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:59:01 +0000

Looking very sore. We all need to go through a few crashes to really experience cycling lol. It is the people that jump back on that are the real soldiers. x

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 12 May 2013 21:13:46 +0000

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.

All the best
Anna

By: Nancy_in_MN

Nancy_in_MN — Sat, 11 May 2013 19:31:00 +0000

Worth every penny and worth every gram of weight (10) in your saddlebag: Topicaine gel. Super strong local anesthetic gel to slather on road rash until you can get home and clean it up. It’s also WAY easier to properly clean out the gravel and remove strips of dangling skin when it good and numb!

http://www.amazon.com/TOPICAINE-4-Lidocaine-Topical-Anesthetic/dp/B0028MIGA4

One thing, however: it stings like crazy when you first put it on… and then sweet relief!

By: Rickm

Rickm — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:34:45 +0000

I was right there with you. The whole time you described your crash, I was there. I have been there in the past. You took me there again. OK, now I want to leave.

By: UpTheGrade SR,CA

UpTheGrade SR,CA — Sat, 11 May 2013 04:01:59 +0000

Oops! I looked up “Free Verse”
[free verse = Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.]
I didn’t know rhyming was no longer in vogue,
my bad!
Sorry for offending the sensibilities of those with skinned knees ;-)

By: Pam

Pam — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:51:54 +0000

Fatty,

I know what you mean.
I know exactly what you mean.
Last summer at Mammoth
Exactly as mean
Riding along a little speedy
A light and bumpy path
Tumbled early
Bumps early
Seriously bruised and bleeding
Kept going to the top of the mountain
Sorry to hear it’s happened to you
Fast healing Fatty

By: Mark in Bremerton

Mark in Bremerton — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:16:15 +0000

Those crash demons reach out
And grab you
At the least expected times.
Obviously.
My last one was also a solo
And I had 15 miles
To get back home.
Softball size hematoma.
No riding for months
Now healed, as you will be
And riding, as you will be
Again.
Thank you.

By: George

George — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:26:39 +0000

“OUCH!”
say this man on the couch,
to the man who rides like no slouch.