So Brendan...is this a picture of your Homer post-crash? Bars look sort of warped.I am glad you were OK
I hear you about avoiding traffic ...and bike lanes...that's where I had my accident 6 years ago and compressed an L1 vertebra. My X0-1? Perfectly fine; just a scrape on my saddle and the firemen on the scene stashed my bike at their firehall while I went to the hospital On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 2:37:59 AM UTC-5 brendonoid wrote: > Takashi, your Hunq is beautiful! When I bought the Homer I was so close to > choosing a Hunq instead, but I had a long distance commute at the time and > I had no idea how much off road cycling I would end up doing in the > following decade. In hindsight a Hunq would have been the better choice, > probably. The grey/bean is still the best paint job Riv has ever done. > My long-winded post was simply about the various things that have happened > on my Homer in the last ten years, highlights such as crashing into a lump > of concrete across a footpath in the dark, getting run over by a truck and > managing to hold onto both the bull-bar and the bike so that I and it > didn't get dragged under, camping trips and at least 30 thousand kilometres > of commuting. > [image: DSC_0163.JPG] > The truck ran me over while I was in a bike lane, of course. Most parts of > the bike were damaged in some way or another, the rear wheel was crushed, > pedals and crank destroyed, but the frame was still perfect other than a > small scratch on the seat stay. > I was fine, but it changed how I treated riding on the road and pretty > much stopped going anywhere near bike lanes and busy roads after that. I > learned a lot about safe suburban cycling since, and if i have to take a > 3km detour for a safer route, I'll happily take it. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e5313565-47aa-4296-87c0-762180c195b6n%40googlegroups.com.
