Hi Michael - everyone, thanks for your kind thoughts and especially prayers. Peter, I feel for you and your wife. Turns out it was a water system repair. I live in the hill country north of San Antonio. Of course I ride here and people come from SA to ride here. But I also go into town to ride with my buddy who lives on the near northside. The city has 200 miles of greenway paths and are working on through-traffic routes to tie them together. They had just opened the southern end of the Mission trail that connects the downtown River Walk along the San Antonio River to the four colonial missions. Unfortunately, south from my buddy's house is 12 blocks of the worst traffic in town. So we normally haul the bikes to Breckenridge park, ride through downtown and pick up the trail. The danger was on the Lion's Park path - would have avoided it completely just by going down Broadway, which is a very good bike route. Was hoping for a 35-mi ride, but we only made it about 10 blocks.
The sprain is mostly gone - have about 90% mobility in my wrist and hand today, and no pain. Have a bruised rib and thigh contusion that are still pretty hard, and my eye looks like a zombie movie. On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:44:55 AM UTC-5, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > Nine stitches! Ouch. The manager who orchestrated this should be fired. > Rest, get well and stay off bike paths designed by idiots. Where do you > live anyway? > > Michael > > On Monday, October 7, 2013 10:48:15 AM UTC-4, Ron Mc wrote: >> >> this is the last thing you would expect to find on a municipal bike trail >> >> >> <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/estes/bike/IMG_7784.jpg> >> concrete pads with 5 one-inch-wide gaps along the trail that drop to >> infinity >> That's my mud track yesterday - I was watching the barricade ahead and >> setting up to make my left turn back to the street. >> Sucked my front wheel to the axle - it was like a vacuum cleaner took the >> bike out from under me. Had to deflate the tire to extricate the bike. >> Landed on my glove and my sunglasses. >> Mildly sprained wrist, 9 stitches in my eyebrow and look like I lost a >> bar fight. >> Yeah, but you should have seen the bike path. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
