Shin, meet bumper...

[ppgc]

My leg found it's way in front of a car, don't worry the bike is fine. Scott, my leg knows how your head feels. Full report: here (http://www.peteryan.com/2006/04/smacked-by-car-and-he-is-to-blame.html)

Enjoy the pic. :)

-pete

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[Trevize1138]

My knee looks a bit like your shin today after I whacked it somewhere on my bike. When the chain slips off the rear cog of your SS it's not so cool to get up out of the saddle for a good power stroke. :hit: Another early-season casualty: Shad, how's your butt/back feel after you shouted out last night, "Bill! You didn't tell me you ran moto brakes! *groan*"

Hey, everyone, it's injury week on the MORC forums! Three bananas for all those getting beat up on the bike this week! :banana: :banana: :banana:

[Paul Swenson]

Yup I've got an early season eager beaver bruise on my knee. I got hung up in the rock garden at Leb and for the first time was not able to pull out from my Candys.

After I read what happened to Burke and ppgc and I feel like a whimp for mentioning it.

[nigel]

I smashed my right knee between my top tube and a limb the other day. Seems like everyones off to a great start :crazy:

[MikeyB]

Glad you are ok Pete. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/ephidrena/Smilies/accessibility.gif

As the car was coming towards you I did reach out and say, "oooooohhhhh...oooohhhhh". There are so many things now, I would have loved to have said in retrospect like "You're about to get struck by a vehicle!!!". But I did not have time to say, "You're about the get struck by a vehicle", So I went with "oooooohhhh", which is like a concerned moan.

Too bad it wasn't a new BMW or Mercedes http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/ephidrena/Smilies/greedy.gif

[ppgc]

Glad you are ok Pete. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/ephidrena/Smilies/accessibility.gif

Yeah, feeling good today. Thanks for watching me get hit by the car and not throwing yourself in front of it. ;)

[Trevize1138]

I remember one of my HS English teachers talking about effective communication argued that grunt-and-point can be very effective and efficient communication.

If I said "chair" an image forms in your head of a chair. But, what kind of chair? OK, a brown chair. Uh, OK, but what's it made out of? OK, a brown wood chair. Is it all wood or a wood frame with plush leather over it? It's all-wood ...

This could go on-and-on, but if I were standing next to a particular chair, pointed at it and said "Ook ook ook!" then you would know exactly what chair I'm talking about.

[bikeoutback]

I remember one of my HS English teachers talking about effective communication argued that grunt-and-point can be very effective and efficient communication.

If I said "chair" an image forms in your head of a chair. But, what kind of chair? OK, a brown chair. Uh, OK, but what's it made out of? OK, a brown wood chair. Is it all wood or a wood frame with plush leather over it? It's all-wood ...

This could go on-and-on, but if I were standing next to a particular chair, pointed at it and said "Ook ook ook!" then you would know exactly what chair I'm talking about.

Couldn't you just pooint and say "that chair" and have me know exaclty what chair your talking about? What if there is a plant next to the chair when you say "Ook ook ook!" then I might think your referring to the plant ;)

[Trevize1138]

Couldn't you just pooint and say "that chair" and have me know exaclty what chair your talking about? What if there is a plant next to the chair when you say "Ook ook ook!" then I might think your referring to the plant ;)

You have to be accurate with your pointing. See, that's what you learn with an undergraduate degree in English.

[Paul Swenson]

I remember one of my HS English teachers talking about effective communication argued that grunt-and-point can be very effective and efficient communication.


Didn't you go to HS in North Dakota?;)

[manual63]

Glad you are okay. Sounds like a lot of pain though....ouch.

Now what you need to learn to do his footplant off the bumper/hood when drivers do that. Bunnyhop, remove car sided foot, plant on bumper or hood, push off hard giving you more air and causing the car to go boing....boing...:)

Then watch and listen as the driver goes a little looney on you.....but hey, better than getting hit.

[undsioux7]

Didn't you go to HS in North Dakota?;)

You do know why its so windy in North Dakota right?

Because Montana blows and Minnesota sucks!:D

[ppgc]

Now what you need to learn to do his footplant off the bumper/hood when drivers do that. Bunnyhop, remove car sided foot, plant on bumper or hood, push off hard giving you more air and causing the car to go boing....boing...:)

I was clipped in, I tried to hand plant it but the bike was already being consumed by the car. :)

[ppgc]

You do know why its so windy in North Dakota right?

Because Montana blows and Minnesota sucks!:D

I always thought it was because the 8 people there didn't create enough wind stoppage. :)

[Trevize1138]

I always thought it was because the 8 people there didn't create enough wind stoppage. :)

That's NINE people per square mile, thankyouverymuch.

It's why everyone in ND seems so friendly, they're just glad to see another human being.

[ppgc]

That's NINE people per square mile, thankyouverymuch.

It's why everyone in ND seems so friendly, they're just glad to see another human being.

I grew up on a farm, I know what you mean about glad to see another person... Can't we all just learn to pick on Iowa?

[Ish]

Can't we all just learn to pick on Iowa?

Careful now! I know where you work ;)

[Trevize1138]

I grew up on a farm, I know what you mean about glad to see another person... Can't we all just learn to pick on Iowa?

Agreed. Fight the real enemy, people!

[ppgc]

Careful now! I know where you work ;)

Hah! Didn't know you were from "down there." :)

[Paul Swenson]

Agreed. Fight the real enemy, people!

"We have met the enemy and he is us."
-Pogo

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[Trevize1138]

Just gotta say you have to love the vibe of this thread. It's all about "Hey, guys, I got the first injury of the season! Woo hoo! We're all biking again!"

It's a beautiful thing. :)

[Ish]

Hah! Didn't know you were from "down there." :)

yes - and that is why I am now HERE!

[funky-funky-chicken]

Just gotta say you have to love the vibe of this thread. It's all about "Hey, guys, I got the first injury of the season! Woo hoo! We're all biking again!"

It's a beautiful thing. :)

Pain does remind us that we are real.

I unfortunately am now suffering the recovery of a crash at Theo in December. I went over the bars, bent my thumb sideway and backward the way it is most definitely not supposed to go.

After months of riding, lots of miles, and no recovery, I finally had to have surgery this week. My surgeon (fellow MORC member by the way) did a really nice job fixing me up, hopefully. Unfortunately, I have to face the next three months with no off road riding. He figures that I should be able to get back on a road bike in a month. After only 4 days, I don't think that I am going to make it!

So, Pete, Paul, Doug, Chris, and the rest of you out there...Hope you recover quickly and can still ride...

[Poke-em]

My leg found it's way in front of a car, don't worry the bike is fine. Scott, my leg knows how your head feels. Full report: here (http://www.peteryan.com/2006/04/smacked-by-car-and-he-is-to-blame.html)

Enjoy the pic. :)

-pete




Hey pete,

I was just checkin out your website, and I was curious, where did you get that elevation/grade/distance graph? I was just wondering if that was from Google Earth as well... I've been looking for somthing exactly like that for my rides. Just wondering if you ponied up the cash for an expanded version of GE or somthing.... thanks.

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DH