start of the biking season
Gail & I were looking forward to our first bike ride of the season. We're just beginning to train for a bike trip, a fundraiser for the ALA, we're doing in September.
I had really gotten into biking when I was I out of work last summer, but my bike was a little too small for me, and I had the seat raised quite a bit. One day I had come home from a bike ride and I laid the bike down on the driveway (it doesn't have a kick-stand). I went inside, and later I was going somewhere in the car, but forgot about the bike. I ran over the bike with the car, or at least started to. So that's how the seat got bent. The seat leans to one side, and I could no longer adjust it downward.
With the bike trip coming up next September, Gail decided to get me a new bike for my birthday, so she picked one out for me at a bike shop in Bedford and told me about it. Yesterday, however, I was still on the old bike with the bent seat.
I'm not sure what happened. Maybe it was the bent seat that threw me off balance, or that I was concerned that my pants would get ripped as they have before (I should get some of those bands to go around pant legs). Anyhow, somehow I fell forward off the bike. With a groan I landed, with my cheek on the pavement, smarting. My cheek's a little swollen, but what really hurts is my right wrist, more swollen. I was quite shaken up, and we drove right home so I could recover.
My wrist still hurts. I can type OK, but it's pretty painful doing other things. However, we did go to the bike shop today and bought the bike Gail had picked out. It's a Felt bike, much lighter than the bike I had before. We even had a kick-stand put on it, as well as a little computer to track mileage, pace, etc. I'm quite excited about having the new bike, and am looking forward to riding it, ... once my wrist heals.
I had really gotten into biking when I was I out of work last summer, but my bike was a little too small for me, and I had the seat raised quite a bit. One day I had come home from a bike ride and I laid the bike down on the driveway (it doesn't have a kick-stand). I went inside, and later I was going somewhere in the car, but forgot about the bike. I ran over the bike with the car, or at least started to. So that's how the seat got bent. The seat leans to one side, and I could no longer adjust it downward.
With the bike trip coming up next September, Gail decided to get me a new bike for my birthday, so she picked one out for me at a bike shop in Bedford and told me about it. Yesterday, however, I was still on the old bike with the bent seat.
I'm not sure what happened. Maybe it was the bent seat that threw me off balance, or that I was concerned that my pants would get ripped as they have before (I should get some of those bands to go around pant legs). Anyhow, somehow I fell forward off the bike. With a groan I landed, with my cheek on the pavement, smarting. My cheek's a little swollen, but what really hurts is my right wrist, more swollen. I was quite shaken up, and we drove right home so I could recover.
My wrist still hurts. I can type OK, but it's pretty painful doing other things. However, we did go to the bike shop today and bought the bike Gail had picked out. It's a Felt bike, much lighter than the bike I had before. We even had a kick-stand put on it, as well as a little computer to track mileage, pace, etc. I'm quite excited about having the new bike, and am looking forward to riding it, ... once my wrist heals.