Postby Big_Red » Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:14 am
Nice commute home with a strava KOM and a PR on way home friday, but still quite windy in the afternoon after 5pm, thankfully not as gusty as in the morning. At the lights just before the Gateway Motorway overpass on Wynnum Rd, i'm following some guy on his old steel roadie and he starts off when the traffic light turns green, but doesn't clip his left foot in. I just roll slowly after him as things don't seem altogether right and just after we clear the overpass he loses control and smacks full on into the traffic island for the exit off the Motorway and he goes over the bars, skidding along the traffic island with his forks sheared off at the crown! I come to a stop, lift my bike off the bike lane and ask if he's ok and see what on earth happened. Turns out that at the lights he'd felt the steerer go funny, so he was taking it easy. The forks self destructing even at the speed he was doing was pretty spectacular, so i shudder to think what the outcome would have been if he'd been travelling full tilt. Asked him if he was far from home and if he needed me to phone someone to come pick him up as he'd lost a little bark off his forearm, but he said he was all good, only lived 10 minutes away and that he had a phone. Felt super guilty leaving him there, so if you look at these forums dude, i hope your support crew managed to collect you quickly for you to recover at home. Good luck in rebuilding the bike too.