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Posted by Matt K (89 SE 5spd) on September 26, 2002 at 15:37:44:
On a side note, if you ride, WEAR YOUR GEAR! I was wearing my FirstGear jacket with a padded spine protector pad and wearing a backpack which happened to have a big poofy sweatshirt in it, so it didn't even hurt when I landed (right on my back, up near my shoulders). I must say, I am one of the luckiest/stupidest people I know. Keep yourselves safe out there.
I was cruising home from work on the bike, not 20 minutes ago when I made a bit of a mistake. I guess I wasn't paying quite enough ettention, or I didn't leave quite enough space ahead of me, or something like that, when the car in front of me JAMMED on her brakes. I got on the brakes hard, and actually did a pretty damn good job of threshold braking, but I ended up a little short. I hit the rear bumper (I was probably only going 5-10 MPH by then), but the back of te bike popped up and launched me over the handlebars into a 3/4 front flip. I landed on my back in the middle of the road. Amazingly, I'm fine, and the bike lost nothing more than a TINY amount of paint and the front brake lever. I picked it up and rode home. The funny thing is, although it all happened in under a second, I have a couple pretty clear images stuck in my head. First, I can see the front of the bike, but through the windscreen all I can see is the top of her bumper (at which point my brain went "Oh..."). Then, I have this wierd picture, looking the wrong way through the windscreen back along the top of the bike, with my hands still more or less on the bars, and my feet directly above my head (my brain says "...shit") . Kinda wierd.