Re: what a day.

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Charles wrote:
>
> >> But, the sand was soft and I wasn't hurt.
> >
> > Yeah, yeah, yeah.  But how was the bike???
>
> Bent forks, mostly and of course the cosmetics.   As I recall, I was
> able to force them straight enough by hand to be able to get the bike
> off the beach without having to haul it, and it was only a few miles
> home.  That was a long time ago.
>
> It was a very big log to be lying on a beach.  You wouldn't have wnated
> to encounter that thing in the water with a boat at speed.  I expect
> that would have caused lots more damage than the bike and I had.
>
> -- 
> Mike Easter
> kibitzer, not SC admin
>

Reminds me of the time I turned off the headlights and engine on my bike
while waiting in a tailback on a long bridge at night. When Traffic finally
began to move, Iturned on the engine and proceeded, just after the bridge
was an exit ramp to a Very large park, and while exiting I discovered
alternately whuile being blinded by my flashers that It was not illuminated
and I had forgotten to turn the headlight back on.

Drawing upon my vast experience at the controls of a bike I more or less
froze. You can guess the rest. (yes there were curbs)

Luckily no serious injuries or damage, just a great deal of pain and limping
for a while.