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Arranged to go out on a 30-miler this morning with a colleague who hasn't been out since last September.
So off we set ay 8:00 in the lovely sunshine on a loop taking in the coast and that great Sunday morning ride feeling along with the great scenery.
On the return leg, my colleague was slightly ahead and took a wrong turn on a roundabout so I caught him and we turned back.
The roundabout is currently being resurfaced and on approach it looked like our lane was closed so we ventured onto the new Tarmac until I realised we were on the wrong side of he road...
I veered left to take me Onto the cutaway surface but at too straight an angle and the 2" drop just pulled the fron wheel from under me and down I clattered.
Very close to breaking my finger, but thankfully the RH shifter gave.
Look so worse than it was, just gotta keep flexing them.
I was amazed however, when off came te bib-shorts to reveal the injury to my butt! Print seem bad when I was riding the remaining 6 miles home.
Just scrapes to the bike and the shifter needs re-aligning properly and tightening, but overall it came off better than I did.
My first real off on my roadie though.
Hence my battle scars...
this was in a mirror so on my right side.
@Cycling Dan you probably know the roadworks at the top of the road past North TynesideGeneral.
So off we set ay 8:00 in the lovely sunshine on a loop taking in the coast and that great Sunday morning ride feeling along with the great scenery.
On the return leg, my colleague was slightly ahead and took a wrong turn on a roundabout so I caught him and we turned back.
The roundabout is currently being resurfaced and on approach it looked like our lane was closed so we ventured onto the new Tarmac until I realised we were on the wrong side of he road...
I veered left to take me Onto the cutaway surface but at too straight an angle and the 2" drop just pulled the fron wheel from under me and down I clattered.
Very close to breaking my finger, but thankfully the RH shifter gave.
Look so worse than it was, just gotta keep flexing them.
I was amazed however, when off came te bib-shorts to reveal the injury to my butt! Print seem bad when I was riding the remaining 6 miles home.
Just scrapes to the bike and the shifter needs re-aligning properly and tightening, but overall it came off better than I did.
My first real off on my roadie though.
Hence my battle scars...
@Cycling Dan you probably know the roadworks at the top of the road past North TynesideGeneral.