KelOnWheels
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Okay, NOW I feel like I got hit by a truck.
Or a sidewalk.I plan to ride gently to the river, roll in, and float merrily down to Alexandria. Steel floats, right?
GORGEOUS morning! A nice number of people out on the trails this morning.
Shoulder/arm is sore & stiff but that’s the worst of it. Other bruises are bruisy. :p
New V-brakes are AWESOME. They are a million percent better than my old brakes and I no longer have a banshee strapped to my front wheel.
Pulled up to the corner near #fridaycoffeeclub this morning, didn’t see any bikes out front, and thought, “What?! I dragged myself to Friday Coffee Club and NO ONE CAME?!”
Turned out everyone was sitting outside today!I saw vvill and ShawnoftheDead and Dirt with his shiny Pinarello and lots of other people and I had a tasty latte and then I had to go to work. :p
I was very cautious around pavement edges today. They have tasted my blood. They will want more!
@KLizotte 29287 wrote:
I went splat because I mistook how deep the edge of the sidewalk really was (it was obscured by grass) and approached it at too much of an angle. The wheel jerked left while I continued along the original flight path right over the handlebars on to that god awful pebbly sidewalk.
I think your head pic is a great example of why cyclists should wear helmets. Even you couldn’t pull off a dimpled temple with flair. It’s also an example of why pebbly sidewalks/roads should be banned.
I think that’s exactly what happened – I underestimated the pavement height and came out of the grass at too shallow an angle. Apparently I launched to the right – I don’t really remember what happened right before hitting pavement.
My chin is scraped too so I think my face hit the ground, my sunglass lenses are scratched on that side.
I wanted to get to the drugstore & get bandages for my shoulder and some arnica gel, but it didn’t happen tonight. Good thinking on tetanus, I know it’s been over 10 years since I had that.
I’m sure I will feel AWESOME in the morning
On the plus side, an amazing lunch place opened up today at 7th & D – Protein Bar DC Their breakfast looks good too!
Thanks guys!
Paul at BicycleSpace checked out everything really well for me – rear hangers were bent so he got those back into shape and also tightened up the rear hub. He says my rear axle looks to be a touch bent but not enough to worry about. Headset is fine.
We got talking about brake pads and I was going to have him put KoolStop pads on while he had my bike on the stand since he mentioned putting new caliper pads on is rather fiddly. I mentioned the problem I’d had getting fenders to fit so he was going to lengthen up the cable yoke. Then he noticed that the replacement brifters I have are actually for V-brakes, not calipers, so we changed plans and put on Acera V-brakes and nice new brake cables and housing. This should give me much better stopping power! Plus now I can put fenders on easy peasy.
They didn’t have an inexpensive helmet to fit my big noggin so I’m riding home on Metro now.
