On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:24:38AM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > A few months later the guy that was in the car in front of me > > recognized me at a trade show. He watched the incident in the > > mirror. Traffic had suddenly come to a stop. I hit the brakes, the > > front end went out from under the bike and I was launched six or eight > > feet in the air. He said that the roll I did was very impressive. > > Big ouch! :-(
Yeah. IIRC bike repairs were over $1,000. Since I'd used my helmet, it needed to be replaced. The paramedics cut my leathers off, so they needed to be replaced. I also broke a bone in the base of my thumb. It was amusing, when the doctor was removing the pin, he was having trouble getting a good grip on it. When I returned a week or so later for a checkup I brought my vicegrip needlenose pliers. The doctor called in the nurse, handed them to her and said "Buy me some of these!" As an aside, while it didn't hurt when the doctor was removing the pin, there are few things that I've felt as strange as the feeling of a bit of steel sliding through my bone. It was just wrong. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
