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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> I put down Andys bike turned around and
noticed someone was missing. Looking down I saw he had fallen so I
immediately began to freakout. Cause thats what I do. Luckly cooler heads
prevailed. John ran down to give assistance and Rich got on the phone to 911.
Aside from all the carnage it was a good ride on a nice spring day. I'm glad
Andy is ok. Next time we'll have to take the detour.</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=oldandpokey@gmail.com href="mailto:oldandpokey@gmail.com">Old
Pokey</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bent@list.marsride.org
href="mailto:bent@list.marsride.org">NY/NJ/CT/PA Metro Area Recumbent Society
(MARS)</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 23, 2010 10:17
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bent] Round Valley ride of
doom</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I feel like I won the Darwin award. Don walked over the
bridge carrying his bike. He put it down on the other side and then went
back and took my bike from my hands. I just had to follow him without
falling. Steve says that I panicked and hesitated mid
step causing me to lose my balance.
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<DIV>All and all, I am happy to have come out relatively unscathed. I am
willing to do this ride again, but only after the bride is fully
repaired.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Rich Sadler <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:richsadler@comcast.net">richsadler@comcast.net</A>></SPAN>
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class=gmail_quote>The best thing I can say about the ride was, it could have
been worse.<BR>Six of us met for the ride-John Tetz, Don Jacobus with his
new moving<BR>bottom bracket FWD homebuilt, Steve Friedlander, Dick Ludwig,
Andy<BR>Milstein & me (Rich Sadler) All went well until we came to a
closed<BR>bridge over the Raritan. We decided to cross anyway even though
the<BR>footing wasn't so great. While passing the bikes across, Andy slipped
&<BR>fell about 10 feet off the bridge abutment. He looked pretty bad-
bloody<BR>nose & groaning so I called 911. Andy is tougher than I
thought, though<BR>& got up eventually. The ride left just before the
cops pulled up,<BR>leaving me to deal with them without spilling the beans
that we crossed<BR>illegally.<BR> I caught up with Andy &
the rest of the ride in Flemington, where<BR>Andy's wife collected him. She
was understandably horrified & took him<BR>to the hospital to get
checked out. He called me later that evening- no<BR>broken bones, they
stitched up a cut on his ankle, & he's pretty sore-<BR>what a
relief!<BR> So now we were five. On the first hill out of
Flemington, Steve's<BR>chain broke, & in the process, ripped his rear
Derailer apart. We<BR>weren't able to pry his chain out of the rear
sprocket, so we cut the<BR>chain, leaving a piece jammed there, which
prevented the freewheel from<BR>working. We took the rest of the chain &
turned his bike into a single<BR>speed. Steve gamely rode the next 12 miles
in one gear, taking his feet<BR>off the pedals on the downhills as they
flailed away in front of him. In<BR>fact he made it up all the hills but the
very last, steepest one on<BR>Allerton without dismounting. John, Dick &
Don rode ahead with Steve's<BR>car keys so that he could come back along the
route & pick him up.<BR>Either they underestimated Steve's fortitude or
they stopped in a bar on<BR>the way back, because John pulled up when we had
the worst hills behind<BR>us & only a mile to go.<BR> So,
not a great MARS ride. While it doesn't rank up with Andy's<BR>catastrophe,
on the way home the clutch in my car started slipping! It<BR>was just one of
those days you'd like to
skip.<BR>Rich<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Bent
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