Thursday, June 28, 2007

Tumblina



I crashed on Sunday and it was no fun. I didn't even get to the dirt before it happened. I was only on the bike a measley 7 minutes before I hit the concrete like a sack of concrete. Three of us were tooling along the sidewalk on the way to the trail when this concrete light pole jumped out in front of me. Then his buddy the fire hydrant jumped out of the bushes on the other side of the sidewalk. I was barely able to remove myself from the bike and dive inbetween them.


Yes, that is yellow paint from the hydrant on my derailleur.



So yeah, I tacoed my front wheel, scratched up one of my new SUNLINE bolt-on grips, and got a few bruises and this lovely gash, but I'm relatively ok.






Well, since there was still 1-1/2 hrs of light left and I have another bike, we bent my wheel back enough so I could wobble home and then I headed out again on my own for an hour or so.






Good times, good times.

3 comments:

Sharpie said...

That light pole just showed up on Al Jazeera Television, claiming that accident in the name of Allah!
That pic of your leg was so white, I was almost blinded!! haha

C

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Anonymous said...

You shouldn't be on a road bike anyway. Screw all that "base miles" crap