Bono clipped into his Specialized racing bike. The U2 frontman has suffered a cycling crash forcing the cancellation of engagements and necessitating surgery for his injury.
Plenty of stars of the entertainment world have joined the Irish cycling boom currently underway, but news that U2’s Bono was one of them failed to emerge under he came a cropper from his bike at the weekend.
And now the Dubliner has had to pull out of some engagements and faces surgery on his arm after coming off his bike in New York’s Central Park.
U2 have been in the US for a week-long residency on the Tonight Show TV programme.
However, those appearances have been called off because of Bono’s injury, a statement on the band’s website has confirmed.
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“It looks like we will have to do our Tonight Show residency another time - we're one man down,” the statement said.
“Bono has injured his arm in a cycling spill in Central Park and requires some surgery to repair it.”
“We're sure he'll make a full recovery soon, so we'll be back!
“Much thanks to Jimmy Fallon and everyone at the show for their understanding.”
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No @U2 this week. But we'll think of something and send vibes to Bono for a speedy recovery.
— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) November 17, 2014
The spill came just days after the luggage hold door fell off a private jet carrying Bono from Dublin to Berlin last week.
The frontman’s luggage, and bags owned by friends of his on board, were all lost when the door fell off and everything in the hold was sucked out.
He was travelling to Berlin for the Bambi International Music awards and had opted to fly on a Learjet 60 D-CGEO ahead of the other band members for prior engagements with German politicians.
The plane was reportedly around 15,000 feet over Germany at the time.
"You know, there may be a few cows or sheep in the German countryside with a very sore head," Bono said afterwards.
"We trust that nobody was hurt, because we would have heard by now, and that was actually our first concern, 'cause we were fine."
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