Ok, so I got a job. I´ll start on september. And of course I´ll be commuting to work.
As I posted in another thread, I got a new bike, and have been doing some skill and route training since I haven´t been on bike in more than 15 years.

Today was my sixth day out, and I´m testing a route to my new job place.
Everything is going fine. Nice weather, not many cars, I´m feeling very confident and proud of the development of my biking skills. I´m also feeling in better shape than day 1.

I´m doing a bike lane that is mainly on the street with cars, but I think it´s pretty safe, no right parking allowed so no doors, and traffic here are very respectfull of the bike lanes, as they are with bus lanes.

But suddenly the bike lane ends. No signals, nothing. The streets just ends.
Further ahead there´s another bikelane that goes through a very wide sidewalk. So to get to that bike lane there is a block and a half through a walkpath-sidewalk-park very confusing place for me, that goes by the side of a park.

I go through there, and suddenly the concrete path becomes rock pavement, like those in the old days.
I start bumping around there, I´m going very slowly but still my butt is starting to hurt. So I stand on the pedals, which is a skill I´m not very good at, because I then start to wobble a bit.

Suddenly another bike came out of the park and crossed me very fast. I make a sharp turn to avoid him, my foot hit the rear of my front wheel when turning. I now start to loose balance. Then there are two couples of elder tourist in the middle of where I´m going to. I had seen them before but they where not on my path so I didn´t mind them.
Of course I panic, hit the brakes and fall.

I got a nice classic knee rash. Not a big issue, I used to get a lot of those while playing football (as in soccer).
I got piece of the skin of my knuckle missing. It´s not a rash. There´s just a piece of skin missing there.
I wonder where it went.

I have a few bruises on my arm and a small cut on the back of my left leg. Which I have no idea how it got there since I fell on my right side.

But what hurts me the most is that I had my wallet and my cell phone on the right side leg pocket of my shorts.
I fell on that. And it feels like someone just kneed me on my right thigh.

Good I was wearing my big-cover-half-of-my-face sunglasses. I could hide my embarassment behind them.
The old couples where very worried about me, and another cyclist came to my aid. It´s kind of cool that people would worry about a long haired non shaved tatooed arms 30 yo stranger. But somehow that made me feel very embarassed.

By the way, Nokia has a new convinced customer here.