Riding in a paceline today, pulled off the front and going towards the back of the line when another guy came around a corner and kept drifting towards us. I`m braking, trying to get over, he almost hits the guy in front of me, the hits me head on, handlebars to handlebars, I was still going at least 15-16, he probably about the same, he never slowed down, never went back to the right. He is on a steel mountain bike, I`m on my Fuji road bike. Impact snapped my top tube in half and bent up the bottom tube. My shoulder was hurting pretty bad, then I could feel where bone was sticking up. Other guy was perfectly fine. Road his bike out. One of the guys I was riding with, road his bike and held on to mine to get it back to the parking lot where my son was going to meet me. Cops were coming back on the path to investigate an abandoned bike, one of them gave me a ride back. Went to the ER, got x-rays and the diagnosis. Separated shoulder, he said on a scale of 1-6 its a 3. Seemed surprised at how much movement I was able to tolerate, but said to take it easy, and keep my arm in a sling. Heals on its own, should take 4-6 weeks.
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