Sunday Sept 29th bad day for a ride.

Yesterday on our bike ride, I crashed into one of two "BMX'rs" a type of dirt biker. Below is a picture of the type of bike.

The RED arrow shows the direction I was going and the WHITE arrow shows where the crash took place

  As we were coming up to the tunnel under the rail road track on the north side of the Dam walk way,the two of them came down the hill through the tunnel and were on the wrong side of the path.

The X shows where the collision took place, on my side of the path

 The first one clipped my mirror and the second one came directly in front of me and I hit him broadside, he went flying and I landed on the path, my bike worse for the wear, his bike "broken" in his words, he said "Dude are you alright", I replied I would be if you stayed on your side of the path.  He said "I couldn't control it!", meaning -  first of all these bikes like his have no brakes and he was going too fast, 20 mph +. He picked his bike up and walked away. 

His buddy after he clipped my mirror, was looking back to see what would happen to his buddy, almost ran into Judy but she managed to swerve out of his way. I had to put my chain back on to ride back home, ride discontinued.

Blood on the path from the laceration on my right knee, which dripped there while I put my chain back on.

 By the time I got back across the bridge, my right hand hurt so bad I couldn't hold on to the handle bar.

This morning I had a scheduled Dr apt at the VA and because of my hand swollen and hurting they x-rayed it and confirmed the first bone in the hand that is part of the little finger is broken right where it would have been on the hand grip. The Dr referred me to a surgeon in Iowa City, have to wait to hear from him. Looks like my outdoor riding is over for this year, he said no bike riding for a month, which combined with the surgery already scheduled for 10-24-13 really ends this years outdoor riding. SO I guess I will set my bike up on a trainer and start riding inside early this year.

RED arrow shows where the bone is broken. Swelling is worse than the picture shows.

Here is my cast and the repairs to my bike came to about $70.00, I get to keep the cast for 6 weeks, but we did ride day before yesterday.