If you ever have a choice between going flying over your handlebars and landing on pavement and getting road rash and breaking your wrist badly enough to need surgery to insert some titanium, or not doing that, I recommend NOT.

Learn from my mistakes, is what I'm saying.

(I'm home now, recovering.)

@pjohanneson Ooof, I commiserate. Did something similar earlier this week myself. Was fortunate to escape with "just" a broken rib, and some relatively minor road rash/bruising.