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Apr. 10th, 2003 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noahgibbsI've now fallen a second time on my bike. Unlike the first time, this one entirely lacked an "oh shit, I'm gonna fall" moment. It was happening before I even realized. Like the last one, the worst damage inflicted on the bike was minor scrapes and on me was a skinned knee.
It was odd. I was turning, it was pretty low-speed, and the bike just seemed to fall. I wasn't doing anything particularly bad. In fact, in retrospect I'm not at all sure why it happened. Maybe my tires are more worn than I'd realized. I can't think of any other reason a random slowish right turn would turn into a skid-off-the-road.
The skinned knee looks gruesome, but is bleeding barely at all. There's a big black patch in the center which I'd assumed involved asphalt, but it's not bleeding, it's not doing much anything, and the black doesn't quickly wash off, so maybe it's ground-in grime or something.
The muffler was hot enough that the leading edge of it melted up a chunk of road paint. Yeah. Like, it was all gooey. I assume that happened while the bike was on the ground and not while it was falling, because it wasn't gouged -- it was just kinda melted on.
It was odd. I was turning, it was pretty low-speed, and the bike just seemed to fall. I wasn't doing anything particularly bad. In fact, in retrospect I'm not at all sure why it happened. Maybe my tires are more worn than I'd realized. I can't think of any other reason a random slowish right turn would turn into a skid-off-the-road.
The skinned knee looks gruesome, but is bleeding barely at all. There's a big black patch in the center which I'd assumed involved asphalt, but it's not bleeding, it's not doing much anything, and the black doesn't quickly wash off, so maybe it's ground-in grime or something.
The muffler was hot enough that the leading edge of it melted up a chunk of road paint. Yeah. Like, it was all gooey. I assume that happened while the bike was on the ground and not while it was falling, because it wasn't gouged -- it was just kinda melted on.
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Date: 2003-04-11 01:16 am (UTC)Especially if you end up knocking your eye socket with the handlebar, thus giving yourself what alternately looks like a black eye or HEAVY eye makeup, which is what PretentiousClassicsMajor did. And BOY, did he look dumb.
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Date: 2003-04-11 01:26 am (UTC)glad you made it
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Date: 2003-04-11 07:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-11 07:46 am (UTC)Well, at least, I would say that noticeably disturbing road paint counts as a point.
Any close encounter
Date: 2003-04-11 09:53 am (UTC)Re: Any close encounter
Date: 2003-04-11 11:40 am (UTC)Re: Any close encounter
Date: 2003-04-11 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-12 08:57 am (UTC)