New Bike - I need an intervention!

[pinkbikes]

You betcha I'll be there. I got a freebie from work for the 45km so I entered DH as well. We "ran" through Clem7 the other week (in a mostly walking kind of way) and it was pretty cool, so I'm definitely NOT going to miss riding through it. Lucky for us DD has a birthday party sleepover the night before, so I get to NOT ride the tandem (she's 6 days too young to pilot her own bike dammit) and will ride the roadie instead. Yay!

I'll be hanging around the Smart Travel tent at the start - I think as sponsors we may get to start somewhere near the front. Give me a yell if you are coming past and see me. I'll be in Smart Travel clobber of course! Red helmet, no tiara this time!

You missed a nice ride today too. The weather was pretty kind considering how it has been the last few weeks - barely even a couple of raindrops! Oh - and you missed quite a spectacle too - and I was just a bit too slow to get it on camera....

Picture a group of women riding along the foreshore at Woody Point. The path runs right at the water's edge with about a 1.5m drop over a retaining wall down to the water and a nice timber edge beam on top. We are battling a headwind and some of the crowd are looking forward to coffee just ahead. One of my girlfriends (commutes to town from Greenslopes for work pretty regularly) has come along for the ride and I have got a bit ahead of her when I hear a bit of a yelp and a tyre scraping across concrete.

I immediately think she is in trouble and turn to look behind, just in time to see one of the ride leaders flying through the air into the water with her bike still attached. Bugger!

It turns out that my friend has looked across the park to the coffee shop and not seen the parkbench looming that sticks out into the path (masterful bit of design that) realises at the last minute, hooks her pedal on it and comes to a savage halt. The ride leader, seeing what has happened as she was about to pass, takes a wider line and somehow goes too wide, winds up facing the drink and launches over the raised timber edge, landing in the water and on the rocks below.

Somehow both she and the bike escape with only minor issues - a few small scrapes for her and brifters pushed out of line and chain all topsy turvy for the bike! Amazing really.

So we all hoisted her and bike out of the drink and sorted out her chain and straightened up her brifters and off she rode! Daresay she'll have a few sore and achy spots tomorrow, but she's very fortunate not to have broken anything.

So you definitely shouldn't have slept in!

[Maxxxie]

That sounds incredibly dramatic, acrobatic and traumatic, all in one! I'm double-plus peeved I didn't go now.

Never mind. I'll keep an eye out for you at the ride on Sunday

Max