NDAZONE, People are very supportive of my biking where I work. I'm afraid I haven't inspired anyone else yet though, but they say lots of encouraging things.

Today, a cool ride in (40's) but not bad for this time of year.

I have a new bike (Quest) that's a heck of lot faster than my normal commuting bike. So today I worked on setting a new PR for the return trip (17 miles.) I was in the groove and cruising. At about mile 10 I came to a stop lite. Got in line. The lite turns green. The car in front of me starts to go. I stand up on my pedals to give it a hard crank so I can fly out of there. The car in front of me slams on her brakes (because the car in front of her did) My wheel hits her bumper, locks up causing my bike to cartwheel up resulting in me hitting the back end of her SUV with my head and upper back.

I'm ok, bikes ok, SUV's ok. The lady was super nice, apologizing for stopping so fast. But you know, I was tail gating... Could have been worse and it was my fault... A lesson learned. I was very, very fortunate.

Anyway, once she got out of my way, I cranked on those pedals and managed to beat my previous PR by a minute.. (that PR had also been set by this new bike last week.)

Other than scaring the crap out of everybody it was a great day..