Bad week!!!

Thursday I forced myself to go to the track even though I was tired on my third warmup lap I wand accelerating out of the 3rd berm and as I did the first peddle my chain came off and I went over the handlebars!!!!

Luckily I had my body armour on or it could have been much worse. But I was knocked out briefly and took all of the skin off of my lower right arm and my neck and shoulder are really hurting.

Today I found out the cause of the chain slip was that the bike had a mountain bike crank on it now a bmx crank!!! This caused the chain to be out of alignment which meant that it came off under load. Luckily it came off while I was warming up and not in a race where I would have been going faster and could have potentially been ridden over by other riders while I was on the floor!!!

Needless to say I am more than a bit pissed off as I have to throw away a £300 helmet and shell out for a new crank, chainring, freewheel and chain. Also at some point I will have to replace the bars, grips and peddles as they all got really scratched in the fall as well.

This has once again highlighted that buying bikes off of ebay is not the best idea! My chear £450 bike has now cost me the same amount of money as a brand new DK bike!!!

More annoying still is that I will be off my bike for another week or so which means that I will have missed 2 more races!!!! this means that I will not be able to race nationals next year as I have to race in 7 out of 10 races this year I think.

On a plus note it means that I can focus more on the 2 local races in Bristol and Bath next month so I will be more prepared for these races.

Here is a picture of my arm after I fell off!