So I'm riding along in midtown yesterday on the right side and I was making my way to the middle lane where it was faster when someone hails a cab about half a block ahead of me and this desperate cabbie cuts across 2 lanes of traffic for the pick up, wangs into my rear wheel, I go flying off onto the right (as always), landed on my right knee, rolled to my shoulder and my head hits the ground but not too bad cause there's only a small ding in my helmet.

Isn't it funny that the first thing you do after an accident is run back to see if your bike's ok. Cab driver's like what are you doing, blah blah and I didn't want to be late for lunch with my girlfriend so I said "i'll settle this next time" and took off because I thought it was just another minor spill.

So I get there, lock up my bike, grab lunch. And only then did I realize a) when I fell, the lump of flesh that had formed on top of the last scab from the last fall had ripped off, b) my knee hurts, c) the ingrown toenail I had was jammed in even further by the fall and I didn't realize it and d) it was only later on that I realized while my bike was parked on a busy street, some dick stole the little multitool I had stashed under my seat.

My rear wheel taco'ed but was still plenty ridable and I rode it home. Fixed it up but now in order to stay true and tensioned, some of the spokes are so tight that the only course of action that I have is to loosen some on the other side to the point where it really feels loose. Is this safe?

And I must've falled about 3-4 times now each time flipping over to the right side so the bike always lands on the rear derailler. The thing *looks* pretty fragile but it's still there and shifts so I can't complain but can anything be damaged internally?