pandemic. Soaring numbers of middle-aged Scots donned tight cycling shorts and got back on their bikes. But it seems not all has gone to plan for the country’s emerging lycra army with cycling injuries in hospitals soaring.
A study – published by journal The Surgeon – looked at ops carried out on cyclists at four of Scotland’s biggest hospitals in the last year.
Doctors at Ninewells in Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow’s Royal Infirmary as well as Inverness’s Raigmore Hospital have reported increasing broken bones and cuts from cyclists falling off bikes.
The research found female bike riders were more common than men to end up injured.It found 77 surgical ops were carried out on cyclists in 2020, with the mean age of the injured of 42..