xendistar OBE (again)
In other words I had an Over the Bars Experience on this morning ride and found myself giving the ground a close inspection. The basic are that on one section of the ride a nice member of the public has laid some scaffolding planks over some muddy ditches, the second ditch I cross has a hump made from a large tree root across the trail just before you drop onto the plank, my front wheel went over the root and onto the plank ok but the back wheel slid sideways across the root, this lend to the front wheel sliding off the plank and stopping when it hit the side of the ditch. I then went over the bars, with my legs being dragged over handle bars leaving a nice array of bruises (which I found when I got home). Once I had got back to my feet I checked out the planks and the root and both were very slippery. Not sure why my back wheel slid across the root, might have been because I have put my mud tyre on the bike now, maybe the fact they have a lower profile, a thin 2.0 instead of a large 2.25. Two things are for certain, I won’t be going that way again till summer (because those planks are lethal when slippery) and secondly I will be lowering the tyre pressures as the ride was a tad hard.
Apart from that the rest of the ride was just the norm, my legs felt very heavy after my OBE, not sure why. Had to content with a stiff easterly wind during the ride which dropped off just after I got back home. Mind you it not as bad as the cross winds these guys had to content with , watch for the guy trying to get on his bike!! (unfortunately the music is rubbish and in a foreign language)
My on going problems with Virgin Media are getting worse, apart from the main problem of not having a usable broadband connection from about 4pm onward during the week, we now have to periodically switch the router off and back on again because while the lights are on, nothing is working and today for the second time in 12 days we have completely lost the broadband service for several hours (from midday till 3:30pm today). I feel a Mr Angry moment coming on.
Hopefully I will make it out for a ride one night this week, not sure which one time and weather will tell.
