Another great commute even though my bike dropped me like a sack of potatoes. 81F and sunny with winds from the W @ 10mph. The incident was clearly my fault. I was coming to a green light turning right and sped up so I could make the light. I was going between 18-20mph and when I rounded the turn, I saw stopped cars not too far in front of me. I panicked and hit the brakes, and the bike slid out from under me. Within about 5 secs I was back on the bike and going so I didn't have to hold any cars up. The only damage to me was a lightly bruised hip. The only damage to my bike was a messed up alignment and a lost bell, which was sitting in the middle of the road. I was going to get it, but figured the light was going turn green any second and there would be cars coming my way. As soon as I was able to, I pulled into a parking lot to fix the alignment and give the bike a good look over. I definitely learned a lesson tonight, at least about that turn. I was very lucky that it wasn't much worse. Once I got going again, I was making a great pace for at least a good mile with very little effort. It was like I had a huge tailwind. It ended up being an very enjoyable commute in beautiful weather even with my little mishap.