[RBW] Re: owie - bike path hazard
thanks everyone for the kind words..wife saw the Ortho doc today...looks like surgery is not going to have to happen after all..but she won't be getting on a bike again until next spring.going to put the 47's back on the hIlsen tomorrow...Be safe out there -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: owie - bike path hazard
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: owie - bike path hazard
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: owie - bike path hazard
And don't forget walnuts. Black walnuts are falling like rain around here in the Midwest after a favorable growing season. The fall on the paths, which is hazardous enough in and of itself, and then get covered over with falling leaves so you can't see 'em. It's like unknowingly riding into a scattering of large ball bearings. On Monday, October 7, 2013 7:56:21 PM UTC-5, WETH wrote: Ron and Peter, So sorry to read of your accidents and Peter, your wife's accident. Best wishes for a speedy recovery for you all. Here in Maryland Fall has arrived and with it fallen leavesleaves that become wet and slippery and leaves that hide road/trail hazards. Wishing everyone miles of safe cycling, Erl -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: owie - bike path hazard
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: owie - bike path hazard
Wow. Glad you're OK. With abandon, Patrick On Monday, October 7, 2013 8:48:15 AM UTC-6, 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: owie - bike path hazard
Wow Ron, glad you were able to walk away from that one. so many hazards out there. ~Hugh On Monday, October 7, 2013 7:48:15 AM UTC-7, 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: owie - bike path hazard
Owie's must be in the air...I hit a water access hole that was missing the cap 3 weeks ago while riding my bike for coffee with the wife. I went down hard...road rash all over my body...bike was not hurt except for a tiny paint scrape...The wife was following behind me on her Betty didn't fair as well...Besides road rash, stitches a chipped tooth, she broke the ball of her humorous...bad break that may need surgery...be safe out there... -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: owie - bike path hazard
Wow. Makes my roots and rocks sound positively salubrious. Prayers for you both to heal well. With abandon, Patrick On Monday, October 7, 2013 4:29:15 PM UTC-6, PeterG wrote: Owie's must be in the air...I hit a water access hole that was missing the cap 3 weeks ago while riding my bike for coffee with the wife. I went down hard...road rash all over my body...bike was not hurt except for a tiny paint scrape...The wife was following behind me on her Betty didn't fair as well...Besides road rash, stitches a chipped tooth, she broke the ball of her humorous...bad break that may need surgery...be safe out there... -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: owie - bike path hazard
Ron and Peter, So sorry to read of your accidents and Peter, your wife's accident. Best wishes for a speedy recovery for you all. Here in Maryland Fall has arrived and with it fallen leavesleaves that become wet and slippery and leaves that hide road/trail hazards. Wishing everyone miles of safe cycling, Erl -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
