Ron: Wow, hope you are mending well. That's a nasty, clear result of no awareness of the path's uses. No sub contractor would ever be allowed to hack a street without an outline of traffic management during and repair to a guidebook standard afterward. I guess it's OK on a bike path; exposure to damages must be perceived to be limited.
I just returned from a trip during which my old college friend just had a wreck on a municipal MUP in Little Rock right near the Presidential Library while taking his son's Boy Scout Troop on a bike trip. They were near the end of their trip and his wheel dropped into a curving trolley rail groove and his bars yanked accordingly, sending his over the bars breaking two bones in his left wrist and fracturing the proximal head of his right arm's Radius just below the elbow. Here's the problem: http://www.heritagetrolley.org/images/LittleRock04.JPG Turns out there isn't a very universal set of guidelines for MUP/Bike trails and how they deal with intersections such as this. All actions are reactive management. My friend reports three other bicyclists injured the same way at those trolley corners where they too became boxed in by the merging tracks and traffic. Quick email interchange with director of state department of parks & tourism validated that concern is mounting, plans being made for remediation, their state bike advocate was at his desk as we communicated! Won't make bone heal faster of bring back precision guitar skills (or a veteran flycast). Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh 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.
