so I got hit by a truck today
It was fun.
I just got my mountain bike yesterday, I love riding and it is good exercise. I usually never ride on the street, but today where I was riding there were no sidewalks so I didn't have much of a choice. I was heading down the road, a huge downhill slope probably going anywhere between 20-30 mph(no idea how fast a bike can go fullspeed down hill, but I was doing it) and I approached a traffic light where you can only go straight or left. I go straight, of course, and at this point there is a sidewalk up ahead so I plan to get on it. Before I could, however, a pickup truck started to pull one of those "i'm going to talk on the phone or not pay atteention and my car will swerve in any which direction". He started swerving to the left, well drifting..into the car in the left lane, he notices this, but not me. So his reflex is of course to swerve to the right, and fast, hitting me into the curb, sending me flying skidding across the pavement at however fast I was going. Bike went flying, I went skidding 10 feet or so, truck never stopped. People can suck sometimes. But also, sometimes it is fun to see adrenaline and the bodies defense system in situations like that. I skinned my hand up and it was gushing blood the rest of the way home, and my face scraped the pavement some, but the fall didn't really hurt in the slightest. Either that, or the fact that i've had tubes threaded through my vein into my heart thanks to CF has toughened me overall. Either way. People still suck
I just got my mountain bike yesterday, I love riding and it is good exercise. I usually never ride on the street, but today where I was riding there were no sidewalks so I didn't have much of a choice. I was heading down the road, a huge downhill slope probably going anywhere between 20-30 mph(no idea how fast a bike can go fullspeed down hill, but I was doing it) and I approached a traffic light where you can only go straight or left. I go straight, of course, and at this point there is a sidewalk up ahead so I plan to get on it. Before I could, however, a pickup truck started to pull one of those "i'm going to talk on the phone or not pay atteention and my car will swerve in any which direction". He started swerving to the left, well drifting..into the car in the left lane, he notices this, but not me. So his reflex is of course to swerve to the right, and fast, hitting me into the curb, sending me flying skidding across the pavement at however fast I was going. Bike went flying, I went skidding 10 feet or so, truck never stopped. People can suck sometimes. But also, sometimes it is fun to see adrenaline and the bodies defense system in situations like that. I skinned my hand up and it was gushing blood the rest of the way home, and my face scraped the pavement some, but the fall didn't really hurt in the slightest. Either that, or the fact that i've had tubes threaded through my vein into my heart thanks to CF has toughened me overall. Either way. People still suck