Today's Ride

[Sebastian]

27.9 miles
1 crash
3 bugs almost swallowed

[Axle]

Beautiful shot there!

[Old Timer]

27.9 miles
1 crash
3 bugs almost swallowed

And one great picture.

Tell all the story Sebastian.

[Trevor Ash]

Oh man! Did you get the day off or something? So tell me more about the crash. Did you pull a Craig? I was going to ride yesterday but ran out of time. Instead I did 20 minutes on the trainer which was all I could spare....two more weekends and I'm back to my normal boring social agendas

[Sebastian]

Hehe, close to a Craig.

Riding through Glen Ellyn the sidewalk ends due to construction, I took a right to get around it. I always tap the brake to preload my front tire for more traction in turns, but as I did that I hit a patch of sand on the concrete from the construction and went down. I had run out of space on my card, or else I would have had video of it. (Had my Olympus on my handlebar, that's what the shot above was taken with.)

[Trevor Ash]

Ouch, show us the road rash

I crashed a motorcycle exactly how you described. Had a passenger with me too, she bruised her hip something awful (and she spoke zero english). I still feel horrible to this day. I was a teenager when it happened and didn't even have a license. Stupid kids.

[Sebastian]

It's more important to have a helmet than a license.

The road rash is not very gory, just scraped up my forearm and knee a tiny bit. If I could take a picture of the soreness, I would.

[JamesV]

Hey Sebastian and Trevor, did either of you two ride in the McDonald's LATE ride this year? My gf seen an ad and we ended up doing the ride for the first time this year, great time. Sorry for going off topic....

[Sebastian]

I didn't, I was going to do the Chase the Moon ride in Aurora from 9pm to 3am, but many things went wrong leading up to it and I ended up being somewhere else at the time.