6 posts tagged “bike”
from the ash and flames of my red/black skully pinerallo (*drops his
head* … may it rest in peace) comes the all blackness, all bizness
surly street brawler… she’s set to sail on the 19th day of the twelfth
month of the year two thousand and seven. bike on bravely.
xray says nothing snapped. got a nice deep purple/green/black bruise...
so i got hit. a car did a "failure to yield" left hand turn thru an intersection as I was coming in the opposite direction. i was clearly visible. there was nothing about the intersection that would have prevented a driver from seeing me. i had zero opportunity to react, and wham! i was on my backside in the middle of the street. my steel top tube and down tube buckled up right where they meet the head tube (i.e. we collided with a pretty decent amount of force). i left a nice steve-shaped dent in the car's passenger door panel and knocked the side mirror off. my vintage fixie pinarello is toast. i think i somehow got off with some nasty looking leg injuries and possibly a wrist injury or two. i'd like to think there was something that i could have done differently, e.g. some defensive riding technique but i can't think of anything. just really, really bad timing i guess.
oh man. my booty is not dead!
my puncture resistant gatorskin tires met their match today...
