Matty Rain's 2024 Near Death Experience

[Matty]

Crashed my beater bike pretty good this morning. I overcooked a corner and, knowing that that bike's brakes are shit, I didn't even try to brake. Tried to bunny hop two curbs at about 20mph. I cleared the first one, hit the second one dead on and went over the handlebars. Weeeee.

Currently waiting in the ER. I don't think anything is broken and I didn't black out, but my helmet got destroyed and chest/sternum hurts along with my left thumb.

This is my best crash yet. 🥳

 

[Cougar Bait]

Damn, that suuuuucks

Get better soon Matty
Keep us posted when you can

 

[kato]

wowzers @Matty

glad the helmet worked!

you will be back and better

 

[Matty]

Thx kato, thx Cougs

 

[Tron]

Excellent graphics and photos provided, Matchew!

Glad you didn’t black out. How would you rate that helmet? It’s probably the pictures but it looks a bit shite. But glad you were wearing it!

Did bystanders help you out? Keep us posted. You gon be hurtin tomorrow.

Feel better.

 

[Archie]

Crashed my beater bike pretty good this morning. I overcooked a corner and, knowing that that bike's brakes are shit, I didn't even try to brake. Tried to bunny hop two curbs at about 20mph. I cleared the first one, hit the second one dead on and went over the handlebars. Weeeee.

Currently waiting in the ER. I don't think anything is broken and I didn't black out, but my helmet got destroyed and chest/sternum hurts along with my left thumb.

This is my best crash yet. 🥳

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oh fuck that suuuuucks

 

[Matty]

Helmet did its job. Kask Rapido. I had no idea it was wrecked until I pulled it off. I'm not gonna rebuy the same model simply because it didn't fit my head as well as my previous helmet, a Specialized Align II. I have a spare Specialized at home. It has the MIPS liner thing and stellar safety ratings despite being a cheap helmet.

Two people immediately came up to me. I had to ask them to wait before I could answer them, I had the wind knocked out of me. My Garmin bike computer detected the crash and texted wifey - such a neat feature. I didn't black out and I remember everything, but it was bad enough that I wasn't able to reach my bike computer within the 30-decond grace period it gives you to cancel the emergency procedure/text message.

About to see the doctor. I feel mostly fine while sitting, but getting up and sitting down takes a while. Probably gonna have to prop myself up in bed tonight, ribcage hurts. I know the drill at this point.

 

[Matty]

Chest seems ok and no sign of a severe concussion. Gonna get an xray of my thumb just to make sure nothing is broken.

 

[Boner_18]

Slow down, dude. Sheesh.

 

[Dingo]

“Best accident Yet”
ha ha ha at least you still have a sense of humour, get well soon!

 

[Matty]

Got checked by a second doctor and he wants to see an xray of the chest as well.

We await the xrays.

 

[roguejuror]

I was in the grocery store in the bread aisle and I felt a chill and a tightening of the chest, right then and there I knew something had happened to one of my posters

MATTY WE NEED TO DO XRAYS, MRI AND CT SCANS

 

[Matty]

I'm impressed by my oldballs body's resilience. This one was bad.

 

[Matty]

-I'm told that you crashed your bicycle while going over 30km/h downhill?
-It was perfectly flat. I'm dumb, doctor.

 

[Matty]

Slow down, dude. Sheesh.

No

 

[roguejuror]

after you went over the handlebars how did you land? like a cannon ball?

 

[Matty]

I have no idea. I remember hitting the second curb and thinking "oh no, I'm not gonna get my 90 mins of cardio in today", then I saw grass, then sky. I probably landed on my head first, hence the catastrophic helmet failure.

 

[Boner_18]

Yikes. You grey bro.