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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Are you [censored] kidding me? Why do you have to ask if you should take
yor bike in? You were there. If you think it needs to be taken in, take
it in.

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Are you [censored] kidding me? Why do you have to ask if you should take
yor bike in? You were there. If you think it needs to be taken in, take
it in.

Some people feel about bikes like you feel about computers... Mr. WebTV.

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

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Are you [censored] kidding me? Why do you have to ask if you should take
yor bike in? You were there. If you think it needs to be taken in,

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it in.

Ooooooh..............Mr.Web Tv. Good one.

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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 something that I can do myself.

a good shop should be able to look at it and make an estimate. check around- if
they want to charge for an estimate,look elsewhere
ALTHOUGH, in these litigious days, if they do a quick once over, give it an
all- clear, and then you have a problem, they might possibly be open to a
lawsuit, so they'd want to do a really thorough check up.

OTOH, if you have to ask here what to look for, maybe you should take it in, as
it sounds as if you don't know what to look for in the first place!