windown shopping while cycling could kill a girl

I out riding this morning on a new route for me. I passed this dress shop and there was a really cute dress (for dd) in the window and I turned my head to check it out. I turned back to looking straight ahead just in time to see a curb about 12 inches in front of my wheel. I braked and turned left and then righ and narrowly missed slamming into the curb. Luckly, there was no car traffic at that moment either. Turns out it was one of those streets where the corners jut out in front of the parking spaces to make it easier to cross the street. Had I turned back forward facing a second or two later I would have had a major crash, and nobody to blame but myself. I was wearing my heartrate monitor and shot from ~140 to >165 in just a moments time. good reminder to keep my eyes on the road.

:eek: Yikes! Glad you escaped a major crash. Scary how looking away for just a second can be so potentially dangerous. I think I need horse type blinders sometimes when I'm riding to keep my eyes looking straight ahead- I have a tendancy to look around a bit much.
Glad you're ok! :)

Scary stuff!

One of our ride leaders for our cycling club hit a parked car the other week... because he had his head turned (I didn't see it, but that was the report).

Unfortunately, he was on his brand new carbon/titanium bike. It has been sent back to the shop to see if it can be fixed.

He's OK... no broken bones... just roughed up a bit.

I was going up what I thought was a driveway one day, and saw the curb about 5 sec before I was going to hit it. I wrenched the bike to the right and avoided it, but it was scary. I did not see the curb at all. It wasn't inattention, but angle of the light at the end of the day, as far as I can tell. Glad you pulled up just in time.