 Poster: A snowHead
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https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2024/02/05/man-sues-shimano-trek-after-brake-lever-impales-thigh
really?
I fell in Thetford Forest singletrack this summer and hit the ground hard. I did indeed had a large lump on my knee.
I am considering suing Forestry England for failing to rake the trails and having ground which is too hard baked.
I fell at Vercorin at Christmas and my pole left a mark on my trousers. The designers of the poles should have realised that the tungsten pointy ends are pointy and made out of a hard material.
I am considering suing the manufacturers...
Madness.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I trust his body will be suing his brain for losing its balance.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@ster, precisely
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My OH stabbed himself in the calf muscle with a pole at Gloucester dry slope, decades ago. Had quite a nasty puncture wound. We missed a trick, not suing.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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"when he applied his brakes to avoid hitting another bike's back wheel. He lost his balance and fell on his right side"
Looks like he wasn't looking where he was going and lost it 
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Should have sued them for not fitting anti-lock brakes...
Mind you, I don't know the "V" lever in question, but motorcycle levers have to have a knobble on the end for just this reason; MOT failure if (and often the case) broken off.
Without seeing a photo of said bicycle level, maybe he has a (literal) point?
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"metallic with a thin end"
sounds like he crashed before and snapped it, to make the lever that has a rounded end by design "thin and sharp"
normally it's the handlebar end that impales after the end plug is lost or broken due to misuse / abuse
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@andy, ah..the end plug issue....we constantly tell the Horrible Story to kids in the pump track who lack one or two end plugs.
Horrible Story
Friend had jump bike.
No end plug.
Went down and onto end of bar.
The bar took a perfectly round piece of flesh a centimetre thick from his side.
Had a perfectly round 24mm hole in his body.
It bled.
A lot.
A&E asked where the piece of body was.
Still in the end of the bar.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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He was clearly the uphill cyclist and should be adjusting his speed to account for any move the downhill cyclist might make. Though @Pyramus may disagree.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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He was swerving all over the road, I had to swerve several times before I hit him.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I raced cycles for 10 years in my teens/twenties, if you had no plug in the end of the handlebars they were known as apple corers. 
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You know it makes sense.
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Was he wearing a helmet?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@Hurdy, …don’t start all that up again…
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Poster: A snowHead
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@king key, …indeed…
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| He was clearly the uphill cyclist and should be adjusting his speed to account for any move the downhill cyclist might make. Though @Pyramus may disagree. |
Depends. If he was clicking his pedals then that would give him right of way, no?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Wasn’t there a case of a novice MTB rider taking a course at Surrey Hills who sued the instructor? The rider was fairly incompetent, and repeatedly ignored the instructor until he finally seriously injured himself, then successfully sued for damages.
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Wed 28-02-24 11:02; edited 1 time in total
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@PowderAdict, yes….with some surprising elements to it. ‘12 years mountain biking experience but not used to rough ground’ and ‘a novice course’. All very odd.
https://www.mbr.co.uk/news/mtb-instructor-sued-for-4million-by-paralysed-client-351891
Very sad that he is paralysed. But there are loads of strange elements to this story.
I have had interesting experiences whilst being guided; I have indeed been pushed to do things which I felt nervous about, including one memorable cliff drop. But I know that I could have said ‘nope’ to not doing things, and that would have been respected by the guide. I watched the guide drop; I watched the Grom drop; I thought, OK…yep it’s do-able…and did it. It felt like it was my decision and my decision only.
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