No clue.  But I would have your bike mechanic give the bike a once over.  If the bike hit hard enough to bend the alloy aero bar, the accident could have caused other damge that is not readily apparent. Hope you are ok.  Be careful out there.

Couldn't help but notice... neither of us said..."Glad to hear your alright!"

Really, and endo on a road bike rarely has a happy ending.  You'll need to give some detail on exactly what happend.

BTW, Glad your alright.

Couldn't help but notice... neither of us said..."Glad to hear your alright!"

 

Really, and endo on a road bike rarely has a happy ending.  You'll need to give some detail on exactly what happend.

 

BTW, Glad your alright.

Thank you.  I'm glad I'm "alright" too, but "all right" may not be the best description of my current condition....

My knee is more bruised than road rashed.  It's tender to the touch, but I feel fine running and riding on a stationary bike.  I have 3 cuts / scrapes, but no rash on my knee.

I was on the typical 3 hour tour de Flower Mound (my home town) that ends out being about 55 miles.  The majority of the ride is in the country with horses, donkeys, cows, and farmland as my scenery.  I leave from my home, which is more residential (curbs, stoplights, stopsigns, etc.).  I was on mile 54 of a 56 mile ride, and I was back in the residential area.  I had a great ride, and was now at the point where I wanted to get 56 miles in 3:00, which I have never done before.

So, I turned from one feeder road onto another feeder road (neither streets have houses going directly to the road, and neither street is overly busy).  The street I turned on, though, was having construction over the past few months and shifting lanes a few feet to left or right... The speed limit on the street was 35 MPH....  It was a 2 lane each direction street on a Sunday afternoon with very little traffic.  I was riding along at a decent pace (18+mph).  On those types of streets, I'm riding with finger at the brake levers.  I was doing a shoulder check to see if there were cars behind me, and there were 2 cars side by side behind me, and the 1 car was doing a lane change into the left lane.  I took an extra second to verify / confirm what I saw.  When I looked forward, I realized that the lane shifted to the left enough to make it that I was only about 3 inches from the curb.  Rather than correcting myself by steering and going into the lane more, I tried to balance myself to the left slightly. 

Obviously, it didn't work.  Based on my chain links, gear, tire and rim review post accident, it appears as if I bailed out after losing balance rather than actually hitting the curb.  Nothing has a scratch or any cause of concrete contact.  So, with my eyes likely shut (and my memory now blank), I'm guessing that as I went off to the right, my aero bars got lodged into some constuction mud and caused me to slap the sidewalk concrete with my right knee and right hip.

For as much mud was in the location between the curb and the sidewalk, the fact that my aero bars were covered in mud, and there was no mud on any other part of my bike, I'm guessing that my bars acted like a pole vaulter sticking his place in the pit.  It was not your typical "endo" as the front of my tire did not touch anything.  I was not catapulted.

The aero bars "break" was relatively minor.  They were bent to the right slightly, and there was a flat spot at the location where it mounts to the frame (high leverage point).  The fault occured as if there was weight on the aerobars. 

I was able to ride home, and I've inspected the bike every night since it happened.  I've removed items, and have looked high and low.  I've felt all points and have paid special attention to the high load stress points based on what I know from the accident. 

Anyway, it was a humbling experience, and I'm glad I decided to go to the right rather than the left.  Whatever damage there is to my bike or to my knee is minor relative to the vehicle to my left that could have punted me into the new world.

Cheers,
Brian