Category: Crash (posted in a separate thread)
Location: Flatwoods Park, Tampa, FL (this past Saturday morning)
Bike: Colnago Ace

I was going to have my regular Saturday club ride but my wife wanted to do a charity walk for a local cancer hospital, instead. This was a last minute thing, so we missed the online registration. Saturday morning, we get up a little late and miss registration again. So, off we go to our regular riding place to do one of our weekend rides. There was a 70.3 Triathlon being held on Sunday, in Haines City, and the park was full of participants getting in their last training ride before the race. She told me to ride without her since she didn't want to slow me down. Off I go and finish one 15 mile lap. On my last lap, I arrive at the north end parking lot which is the middle of the lap. The parking lot is oval with one way traffic. There is a one way entrance and a one way exit. So I come into the parking lot, get to the middle of the oval, come around the curve and here's this guy going the wrong way, trying to exit through the entrance. Decision time: get hit by the car or dump the bike. I got my right foot unclipped, but didn't have time to dismount and down I go. The jerk watches me fall, looks right at me while I'm on the ground and keeps on going, leaving the park via the entrance lane. And he was also a cyclist since he had a TT bike on his bike rack.

At this point, I'm the "I've fallen and I can't get up" guy until some other cyclist came to assist. Outcome was three hours in the ER and a dislocated, right shoulder. I checked the bike out while waiting for my wife to come get me and all I could see was some marred bar tape and bar end plug. I'm hoping that the pain I was in didn't cause me to overlook some other damage to the bike. I'll probably recheck the bike out this afternoon, since my shoulder is feeling better and my son will be here to help me.