Super embarrassing. That is all...
OK, really lame low speed U-turn. Hey, am I going to miss that curb? OMG, probbly not. 10 things could have been done to miss the curb and my right hand decides more power might help. Luckily, I wasn't going very fast (5-10mph). Unluckily, that fence turned a "roll away from a high side" into "225 lb. bear meets an immovable steel cable and bicep and chest take most of the brunt". After that was an embarrassing couple of minutes pinned with one leg under the bike behind me, no leverage to lift the bike and my torso pinned against the fence facing away from the road with the wind knocked out of me, several people yelling "are you OK" as they passed by behind me, and all I could do to answer them was flail my arms in the air Team America style.
To give you some perspective, one of my friends took that photo of the fence while waiting for the tow truck. He said that he yanked on the fenceposts with all of his weight, but wasn't able to make them budge, but I knocked 2 of them cockeyed. Do I win a medal?
7 hours in the ER to find one broken bone in my hand and to send me home with just an Ace bandage and a recommendation to get some Ibuprofen and find an orthopedic surgeon for the hand.
