My best "almost-crash" story: When I was an undergrad at Stanford, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and we did all our assignments on clay tablets (late '80's), I was biking to class one day and had an epic almost crash. For context, Stanford is a large campus, so there are a LOT of cyclists, most of whom have no clue how to ride with any sense of self preservation. I'm staff there now, and the kids are just as oblivious to the laws of physics and as utterly lacking in common sense as I was.
Full of my lack of sense, I was biking no handed, and wanted to turn right, but the bike just in front of me, and to my right, didn't, so we bumped a bit. I grabbed my handlebars, we both maintained control, but we essentially split the difference and went a bit to the right, where there were four pedestrians walking towards us. They saw what we were doing and instantly split into two pairs to let us get through them, which we did, safely. One of the pedestrians crossed himself when he saw the almost-epic crash that didn't happen. Acting under the idea of "nobody hit the ground, so it wasn't really a crash," we both biked along our merry ways. I've had a few real crashes. As a former "gentleman of substance" (max weight 125kg, height 176cm), I have had several frames and parts break. I was riding my Riv in 2012 when my left crank snapped, dumping me on the ground. A professional dog walker in his truck came by shortly after and offered to drive me home. The dogs were very happy to see someone, and thought my bike smelled great! I forgot to turn off Strava, not surprising since I was probably somewhat concussed, so it thinks I was able to ride my bike at some pretty impressive speeds! I am forever grateful to that kind stranger who got me home safely! --Drew -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1305eb3a-044c-4388-b1f8-b1a12e189806%40googlegroups.com.
