Crashing

Jiyang Chen said:

I was cornering, and decided I could pedal through the
turn. Unfortunately, the inside pedal hit the ground, and
I was sent crashing into the ground. Luckily, I fell on my
butt, and tore up my hand (I have gloves, but decided to
take them off since I was so close from home and thought
that nothing would happen). Besides the wheels, what
should I check for? Should I bring the bike into the
dealer just in case? I need to make sure it's safe before
I can get back on again.

Thanks

Give it a reasonably close visual scrutiny. Look for
anything obviously out of place, eg. handlebar stem or
seatpost out of alignment or wheels out of true, deraileurs
not working correctly or tires separated from the rim due
the glue not being sufficient to hold under any unusual
force. Look around the crash site and see if anything fell
off the bike or off the rider.

Then at a slowish speed run through the gears, check the
brakes and do the ``hands-off'' test for alignment. Note any
peculiar pedalling action manifested by bent padal axels.

I'm presuming, given reasonably standard road bike geometry,
that you were travelling fast, otherwise you wouldn't have
scraped the pedal on the ground.

Or just do as Davey does. Jump right back on and discover
any problems later.
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yor bike in? You were there. If you think it needs to be
taken in, take it in.

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yor bike in? You were there. If you think it needs to be
taken in, take it in.

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Last time I was in a bike shop, they charged money to look
at your bike. I would like to avoid paying them for
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