Cyclist clinging to reeds, plucked to safety in remote Snowy River rescue

The cyclist was clinging to reeds in the middle of the Snowy River when the police air wing plucked them to safety. 

@ascentale @nickzoic @bikenite

A3. I've had a friend pick me up when I was tired and it was getting dark. That was decades ago. More recently (but still perhaps a decade ago) I picked myself up out of the gravel on which I'd fallen and cycled home while hoping the road rash would stop seeping blood.

I've become pretty adept with things like flats, broken cables, etc. I can at least limp home (touches wood ... )

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@oheso @ascentale @nickzoic @bikenite Oh, I’ve done that. Got to the clinic, nurse asked how she could help me (before looking up), then just said oh. She asked me not to hit her, as she scrubbed the sand out of my skin, (I complied). #BikeNite

@rand @ascentale @nickzoic @bikenite I was only halfway through cleaning myself up when my partner walked in and nearly fainted.

I think that may also have been the time I learned that road rash isn't going to heal up in a couple of days like it did when I was a teen ...

@oheso It takes weeks  and it does hurt many many days! I don't know any cyclist who has no such experience @rand @ascentale @nickzoic @bikenite