Had my first crash last night since I started riding again back in 2008... I was riding home in the dark from a dinner party at a friend's house; despite the streetlights and the lights on my bike, I didn't see the big stick in the road until I hit it. Oops. Bad road rash on the elbow and a little on the knee and a bruised hip. And my helmet has a dent in it, so it's going to be replaced. Bike's fine, just lost a toe clip and the wheel that was about due for truing is now definitely needing truing.

Learned a lesson, though. I shouldn't have been going that fast in the dark (I was flying down the road!) and the 2 glasses of wine with dinner were probably not a good idea either!

But thank goodness for helmets! Looking at that dent, I would have been badly hurt without it...