 I'm right girls can I ask what you think of daddy's cuts what do you think mommy I reckon it looks like you've got a twinkle in your eye about injuring yourself and you're pretty happy with your war I don't think you've taken this much footage of your kids before in your life but you're pretty proud of these war wounds it's disgusting that's the juicy one yeah that's good to have a touch down every now and then makes you feel a lot makes you feel alive touch down on the concrete oh yeah that's the one there hurts the most because there's a big chunk taken out of it that one there so the box actually not too bad after the fall got a bit of grazing on the handlebars here you can see and it's no longer a 105 it's a it's a 05 Shimano 05 and just on the rear skewer that's been grazed up a bit and the handlebars it's completely you can't really see from that angle yeah there you go crooked handlebars are you okay to be on film well it's been two days since I crushed my bike and I'm wondering how my presence has been around the house you've been an absolute shithead very nice you've been so angry and grumpy and turd pretty much I was empathic for a little while but he actually went for a ride the next morning and that ruined my empathy ruined my chance if you had have actually rested up the day after you got back instead of going for a ride I could have had a lot more empathy but you smashed it up for me and then he'd been a little is that why you've been him I didn't know this now you're opening up on video that's why you've been giving me death stairs no I'm just keeping away from you okay what do you mean I'm not nice so enough of the fun and let's take a look at the crash now but gonna warn you if you're up for seeing like a hardcore crash like me come off my bike and slice myself apart it's probably not the video for you this is more about a lesson that I learned from coming off my bike that I want to share with you right now so welcome to my backyard kids have just been in the pool and I'm sitting here with one of my new favorite beers twoies old Dark Isle and it's hoping me numb the pain that I'm now getting from some of these scratches elbow legs hips are worst but that's covered up at the moment and what I thought I'd do in this video is this first time I've ever captured a crash on my GoPro in fact this is only the second time I've ever come off in a criteria and I guess reflecting on the footage looking at it almost just looks like I've just come off my bike out of nowhere but when you actually slow down the footage you'll see that a rider in front of me has come off his line probably only about four or five inches but because it's happened so rapidly and because I was super close to the wheel whilst going through a bit of a chicane so we were I wasn't a full blown corner but definitely had the bike on an angle I sort of soon as the tyres touched and rubbed I hit the deck really hard so I wanted to break it down and show you in slow mo I've got my computer here in front of me what actually happened and what I've learned from it so I'm just going to press play here and the rider in front of me his name is Armani Drake he's from Pro Racing Sunshine Coast and you'll see as we're going around this slight chicane he tilts his head ever so slightly and as he's tilting his head to the right looking around his rear wheel moves out to the left I'd probably say as you slow down the footage about four to five inches but it happened so quickly and then you can hear the sound of tyres rubbing I'm just over and hit the deck straight away at about 45 46 kilometers an hour and I hit really hot steamy concrete I put the temperature gauge in there for a reason about 34 degrees and it was about what have been what have happened about you about 20 25 minutes into the race and it was a hot and steamy day gets super bright and hot up here on the Sunshine Coast by the time you're hitting 9 30 10 it's like a steamboat out there and I guess I was probably feeling a little bit of fatigue as well first crit in two months and hot human condition it didn't feel like a really hard crit didn't feel like a Glenvale and a windy day nothing like that but I think the heat sort of amplifies your fatigue and perhaps I wasn't concentrating as you can see I sort of don't follow his wheel coming out of the sort of the straight there and then I jump on it put in a bit of effort not thinking clearly too close to the wheel now when I came off I've actually just blame myself I thought I was way too close to the wheel there stupid thing to do and as you'll see I dusted myself off bike was actually okay fell to the left not to the right so I didn't bend the derailleur or anything like that and then just got back up and started riding the first thing a money didn't it just proves what a legendary bloke he was he came up and he said mate I'm so sorry for chopping your wheel he works at a local bike shop here on the Sunshine Coast cycles only said mate bring it in I'll fix up your bar tape I'll pay for whatever and I'm like mate I thought it was my fault so this video isn't really a blame game by any means because I actually originally thought that's my fault too close to world and he thought it was his fault because he came out quite rapidly as we were cornering but only really a short distance I mean five inches isn't a lot but when you're super close to the wheel five inches can be the difference between coming off and and not so in this instance I was too close so ultimately the lesson that I've learned here is in recent times I've really been trying to hone into my criteria skills and one of those is to conserve energy you don't want to be dropping wheels like you saw me do and you want to be getting close enough to the wheel where you're safe but also you can serve in considerable energy and I think some of the better bike riders out there can get up really close and if they get in a situation like that they could probably save themselves my bike handling skills are average they're not elite by any means and perhaps an elite bike rider could have saved himself in that instance or perhaps he wouldn't have even got that close so it's just made me recognize that yes you need to conserve energy yes you need to be close to the wheel but your safety is more important and while I didn't break a bone and I didn't hit my head so I'm super lucky in that regard as my wife pointed out I came home on Sunday I was super energised it's like all these natural drugs in your body they get released when you hit the deck and you hurt yourself quite significantly and yesterday wasn't too bad got up for a ride but then today because I haven't really slept well the last couple of nights I've been an absolute prick and I'm feeling a little bit better now cooling down having a beer and having a chat with you but I know I'm probably gonna be like this tomorrow and the next day and just slowly improve but it's very frustrating my hand here I can hardly put my hand in the sink and wash things you know putting pants on hurts the kids constantly bumping me like just all these small things throughout the day it's very frustrating so you know it's a lesson learned could have been a lot worse I'm lucky it wasn't and the thing is this stuff happens you know bike riding makes you feel like a kid again and that includes getting scabs all over your elbows and your legs so it's not going to stop me from racing a crit I might sit out this one this coming Sunday but there's one in Giraweem which is my local area following Sunday hope you get down for that in fact I hope to film that and I hope to catch you in the next video