First official bike accident, albeit due to this most unfortunate circumstance of a massive chunk of road being gouged out of my lane. My handle bar clipped the wing mirror of a mini and my bike fell over into the gravelly abyss – with me very likely governing the expression of a frozen raccoon. The driver – evidentially a most compassionate man – waited mere seconds of me untangling myself from bicycle, groceries, concrete, shame and removal of gravel from my shin, to ask if his car was ok, then he swiftly drove off.
Shins and knees bruised yet intact; but my ego took a severe thrashing. I do however clearly need a better helmet, as this one apparently works for shit. It swiftly spun off my head and ended up around my neck like some sort of bulbous bow tie within seconds of my head hitting a concrete ledge. Luckily my head is quite dense and is totally fine having unscheduled visits with aggregate products. Plus I don’t use my head for much of anything really, so I was safe.
Also gravel is delicious.
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I just now wandered onto/into your gravel pit but can make you smile already for 2017 with my bike
“memory”. After circles of the neighborhood park a few years before I moved to Manteca, I was having a
go at photographing the geese and ducks at the Duck Pond at the middle of the park. I couldn’t get enough shots of the babies which were everywhere and kept skidding to a stop on the path surrounding the park. Short story made shorter, the lady working on spraying the goose poop off the pathway did not
see me coming and pulled up on the hose at the “wrong time” sending me partially over the handlebars
of my bike and to the side where my body conformed to the metal and my ankle stuck under the pedal
as I skidded to the right side and on the ridge of the cement edge of the pond. To the delight of the entire Kingdom of feathered fowl I became one among them just short of going head first into the green muck floating around and within duck island. My helmet stayed put but without a face guard I am here to report that unlike your gravel…..Duck/geese poop does not taste good! Have a great new year!