The ground, and the hitting thereof

Never had any major mtb injuries even though I've been over the bars more than once - usually the magic gymnastic unconscious impulse kicks in and i manage to unclip and land reasonably gracefully (or at least without pain/damage). Mtb can be more forgiving than road I think, you might be more likely to come off but often you have more time to react, and with luck you'll be landing on nice soft mud or bracken instead of hard hard road.

There's something unpleasantly fate-tempty about threads like this! Especially since I was thinking today that I've only had 2 accidents while commuting, one of which was a) minor and b) completely my fault, and the inevitability that there are more to come...

Actually, three accidents, if you count being flung off my bike within 20 yards of starting off when the D-lock I'd carelessly hung over the stem jammed the bars, but that was slow, painless and dumb, as well as away from traffic/road/people, so I don't :)

Hope you recover quickly btw, Kenan! What actually happened?

100 Finest crashes

it's that "tick tick tick tick tick tick tick" sound you hear as you regain consciousness that gets me.