First accident with the new bike
10-14-13, 07:42 PM
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Get some shatterproof glasses if you really are serious about riding. Think what could have happened if that rim has hit an eye, or your jugular, rather than your nose.
10-15-13, 05:20 AM
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My glasses are polycarbonate. I got quite a bit before I started riding, but occasionally do use power tools and wanted the protection.
10-17-13, 10:18 AM
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To repeat what I wrote on the "New Bike" thread: Now that the soreness is pretty well gone and the nose is mostly healed up, I have been replaying this incident in my mind. I am most reluctant to say it, but I now firmly believe that what happened to me was a deliberate act on the part of these boys. I will be watching them very closely from now on and, should there be a repeat or attempted repeat of the incident, the police will be involved. And, yes, I will prefer charges.
To tell the truth, I am more concerned about the backlash I will get from Mom and Dad when I put their little darlings in juvenile hall than I am about the little darlings. But I can also deal with Mom and Dad.
Now, I know some of you are going to ask how I arrived at my conclusion. Very simply this; have you ever heard of the "Knockout Game"? I suspect that these two were looking to do something similar.
To tell the truth, I am more concerned about the backlash I will get from Mom and Dad when I put their little darlings in juvenile hall than I am about the little darlings. But I can also deal with Mom and Dad.
Now, I know some of you are going to ask how I arrived at my conclusion. Very simply this; have you ever heard of the "Knockout Game"? I suspect that these two were looking to do something similar.
10-17-13, 10:48 AM
#30
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Knockout game? Never heard of it. However, we have some teenagers in the community who used to play a lot of MAILBOX BASEBALL....until one of the local athletes incurred a compound fracture and nearly lost his arm, and did lose his scholarship.
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10-17-13, 07:56 PM
#31
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Semper paratus indeed. Why do I have the feeling you did the seventeen miles AFTER the accident?
