Took my 12 speed, allong with the tire from my ten speed to the lbs (Bikeworks on Mississippi). They suggested that I repace the gear cable, the rear brake cable, and said the headset was a little loose, but the drive train was in good shape.

Brought her home on the bus, and when I got to my corner, I thought I would save some time, there is a slight grade down to my house, so I was going to coast down to my house. I applied the brake to slow down, and found myself sitting on the sidewalk. Perfect three-point landing, with my butt taking the brunt of the fall. My worst injury is a 4 by 2 bruise on my thigh, where it hit the handlebars going over. The bike? It has a twisted headset, I don't know if there was any real damage done. I was not in the mood to deal with it anymore.
I weaseled a ride to the moorage from my boyfreind, and a ride to a train station to come home.

Muscles are sore, don't know how much from sailing versus flying. Today is school, I have lots to do before the term ends next week , so probably won't look at the bike for a few days at least. I guess the quickest repair is to swap tires from the twelve speed to the ten speed.

I didn't want to spend the money for a tire and tube for the ten speed, if the twelve speed was in better shape. But now I don't know if that's the case anymore. Maybe I'll visit Citybike while I'm downtown, they sell lots of used parts.

Wier's wanted tweny bucks for a tire, and I could probably replace my ten speed for that price (with some shopping around.)

Mary