Ow

As I mentally get ready to start a new job that is well within biking range, I can’t help but read about U2’s Bono, and his biking accident in New York.

Bono broke his arm in six places and fractured his eye socket, hand and shoulder blade in what he called a “freak accident” in New York.

Ow.  Ow.  Ow.  Ow.

At the time, the hospital where Bono was being treated said he had been involved in “a high-energy bicycle accident when he attempted to avoid another rider”…The 54-year-old Dubliner revealed he now had a titanium elbow.

Ouch.  Ow.  Owwwww.

Irish singer-songwriter Bono and his band U2 pictured in Berlin late last year

Bono said he “blanked out on impact and have no memory of how I ended up in New York Presbyterian with my humerus bone sticking through my leather jacket. Very punk rock as injuries go”.

Aaaagh.  Owww. Ow.  Owwwwwwww.

Bono continued: “Recovery has been more difficult than I thought. As I write this, it is not clear that I will ever play guitar again. The band have reminded me that neither they nor western civilization are depending on this.

“I personally would very much miss fingering the frets of my green Irish falcon or my (red) Gretsch. Just for the pleasure, aside from writing tunes.

“But then does the Edge, or Jimmy Page, or any guitarist you know have a titanium elbow, as I do now? I’m all elbows, I am.”

Aaaaaaaaaaagh.

I’d mention that Nils Lofgren has two replacement knees, except aaaaaaaaaaaagh.

He talked about learning from his mistakes adding “the first of which is the discovery that I am not an armoured vehicle”.

I love biking.  And biking in the city is certainly all about having 360° situational awareness.

But, in addition, aaaaaaagh ow ow ow.