....good point.  3pm today at the Y.
Yoga also helped the shoulder comeback pretty
quickly.    It was tough at first to do the yoga and
have a shoulder injury but I attribute the  somewhat
rapid recovery to the water and  the mat.
bcbs scammers~
Wait till you get my age and check your health ins
premiums out.  Mellowness melts quickly~








On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Tim Sharp <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I thought yoga was supposed to make people more mellow.
>
> ------------------------------
>  *From*: [email protected] <
> [email protected]>
> *To*: [email protected] <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent*: Sat Jul 21 22:30:09 2012
> *Subject*: Re: [COWs] Re: Sat ride report
>
> ......
>
>
> .......turboDan( Dan MacLachlan )  No one knew your
> last name~  not many maclachlan's in wilson~
> Great report and attitude!  You know I can relate~
> In between nick's somersault ale's and chad's  kenisilogy
> tapes don't forget aquaPower.  After white pick-up
> truck dude took me out I headed for the pool instead of the
> shoulder doc.  Took about 3 weeks on daily aquaTherapy
> and the shoulder was stroking again for this old dude.  Never
> even went to the doc except ER(waste) .  Probably should have
> as my bcbs ins just went up about 20% cause of new age group
> and never even use the BS insurance!  bcbs are scam artists!
>
> You be sore for a while so get in the water asap.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:52 PM, DRM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The story of my first wreck while riding with the COWs actually starts a
>> week ago when I had got a new rear cassette and put it on my deep dish race
>> wheels.  I had not ridden on them till today, in preparation for Buckhorn
>> next week.  I noticed a rattle coming from my rear wheel, and at one of the
>> stops, sure enough it was loose.  The nut that tightens the cassette on was
>> tight, but the gears still had some play.  I had forgotten to put a spacer
>> on the rear hub prior to installing the cassette.  So this was my first of
>> two mistakes; forgetting to check the cassette installation.  The second is
>> qualified as "I knew better but did it anyway"; I knew my cassette was
>> loose, but I just couldn't help it when Nick went to pull around me on
>> Target hill.  I had just gotten out of the saddle, driving my leg down in
>> the power range of the stroke, when the slop in the rear got me.  The chain
>> slipped forward, fell off the front chain ring and my foot unclipped from
>> the peddle.  This all happened in less than a second.  Now I was out of my
>> saddle, clipped in with my left foot, my right foot flapping free, and my
>> center of gravity not where I needed it to be.  Luckily (and it really is
>> luck to have happened when and where it did) it was my right foot that
>> popped out, since it carried me to the right toward the curb.  Had my left
>> foot popped out, I would have veered left, out into traffic, and likely
>> ended up skidding along the black top.  But no, I was destined for the curb
>> and the grassy patch on the right.  I don't know if my front tire blew
>> before I hit the curb, or as a result of hitting it, but I heard it pop
>> like a .22 gunshot.  I catapulted over my handle bars and landed on my
>> right side (mostly right hip if my injuries paint an accurate picture).
>> Shorty after both I and my bike stopped moving, my rear tire blew...it may
>> have just wanted to be included in the event.  A quick inspection of my
>> ride showed only minor damage; only a few scrapes along one side of my
>> front rim.  I will need to retire it until I get it fixed, but the bike
>> seemed to fair better than I did (which is ok with me).
>>
>> This was by far my worst wreck on a bike (since I broke my arm on my BMX
>> as a kid) and I was thankful that I had the group around me for support.  I
>> carried my bike up the hill to the Target sign and I had to run DC and Chad
>> C off telling them I was fine and that my wife was on the way.  Not only
>> did Dave W call to check if I still had full function of my appendages, but
>> Nick actually stopped by with a 6 pack of (appropratly named) somersault
>> ale to hasten the healing process.  DC is picking me up some new tubes and
>> Chad C made a house call to tape me up with Kenisilogy tape for pain and
>> swelling (which were starting to get pretty bad).  My right hip is keeping
>> me from moving too quickly, but considering the speed of the crash, things
>> could have been much much worse.
>>
>> Thanks all for a great ride and all the support!
>>
>> (Turbo) Dan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, July 21, 2012 11:07:41 AM UTC-4, Jim Davis wrote:
>>>
>>> A big herd of 12 COWS and 1 heifer left DD to do the Fremont route,
>>> typical easy start through the neighborhood then Bob L sets the pace  and
>>> we roll the rest of the day at 20/22 until St Mary's ch rd Turbo, DC,
>>> Lawyer, LR, and Big Wally drop the hammer at 31 mph they are puling away
>>> for BobL, Birdman and Kaiser. Regroup on Radford.  Group is all together on
>>> target hill, turbo drops the hammer to pull our average up.  Drops his
>>> chain throws him into the curb, pops his rear tire, does an endo into the
>>> grass, pops front tire.  Turbo and bike seem to be ok.  Judges gave him a
>>> 9.5 on the landing because he did not stick the landing but had a slight
>>> roll.  50 miles, 20 avg.
>>> Great day to be on the bike.
>>> Birdman
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
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