brainfarth
100 mW
Yesterday, I was on my way to work and was cruising up the bike path, when a pathfinder decided to change lanes, knocked me down and drug me up the road between 30-40 feet. I'm okay except for the road rash on my left side and I feel like a mac truck chewed me up and spit me out this morning.
It's a horrible path design. The circle is where the collision happened and the bike is where I ended up. The bike path crosses a lane right before the freeway enterance. She was in the far lane and needed to get over and did not see me when she moved over. I have a 700 ion front light that was blinking and a cygolite hotshot on the back which was blinking as well.
My bike is in rough shape. The front elixer 5 is not working anymore. The wheel bearings are shot, peddle toast, rash everywhere and bent. And my thumb throttle intermittently works. And my nice columbia jacket and pants have a few leaks in them now.
Hopefully her insurance gets back to me in the beginning of the week, or I'm going to have to hire a lawyer. I would be happy with 2k to cover my expenses and lost time from work.
Well.. I survived another day to tell my story. Hope none of you have to experience it for yourselves.
It's a horrible path design. The circle is where the collision happened and the bike is where I ended up. The bike path crosses a lane right before the freeway enterance. She was in the far lane and needed to get over and did not see me when she moved over. I have a 700 ion front light that was blinking and a cygolite hotshot on the back which was blinking as well.
My bike is in rough shape. The front elixer 5 is not working anymore. The wheel bearings are shot, peddle toast, rash everywhere and bent. And my thumb throttle intermittently works. And my nice columbia jacket and pants have a few leaks in them now.
Hopefully her insurance gets back to me in the beginning of the week, or I'm going to have to hire a lawyer. I would be happy with 2k to cover my expenses and lost time from work.
Well.. I survived another day to tell my story. Hope none of you have to experience it for yourselves.