Originally Posted by speedlever

Less than 5 miles into the ride, a car turned right in front of me at a point where I had just glanced down. I looked up to see something large and brown right in front of me and slammed on the brakes. But it was too late to stop and I glanced off the side of the car scraping down the right rear door with my handlebars and getting a nice big mouse on my right forearm, but I kept the bike upright. No apparent damage to the bike that I could find, but it sorta shook me up. Shook up the driver too. They called later after my ride to check up on me. I think I'll run the bike by the LBS and let them take a look for any hidden damage that may have occurred. Whew... that was a close one.