I was riding by myself, and some good Samaritans pulled over on the side of the road and called the police for me.

I was on the purple bike, it's at the fire department currently. When I was on the curb, I caught a glimpse of it - big dent in the top tube, possibly out of alignment too. Damn.

Funny, because as soon as I checked my email, there was a group message from my cycling club's president with a great deal on a Dave Tesch (made in my hometown) steel frame the same size on C-list, and guess what color it is...

http://images.craigslist.org/00Z0Z_5...sp_600x450.jpg

Hmmm...

OUch!!! Heal quick!

Yeah, looking back at the wrong moment can take out the best rider. Happened in the TdF a few years back, dude was looking back for teammates' positions or something, just before hitting a raised crosswalk --- BAM!

the upside to eating ****. new bike day.

hope you heal up fast, sounds like you did quite a bit of sliding, which is better than tumbling (despite what your nerve endings are telling you with all the roadrash)

Today at work I realized its sometimes best to not let people know how stupid they are.

if i did that at work id be ruining the self esteem of literally 2880/2900 people. the struggle is real.

you gotta play with their stupidity at their expense, you cant let the idiots in on the joke (them)

am i a horrible person? yeah probably. but i get to laugh a lot.

I usually enjoy laughing at them too, part of the problem was that I was laughing at them. I was just fed up with the rampant stupidity.
It got pretty heated today and if I didn't walk away it probably would have ended in a fist fight.
The problem with letting people be stupid at my job is it can have very damaging (even deadly) consequences.

Half of my classmates would hate my guts, but the truth hurts! I will leave it up to the journeymen they may apprentice under to tell them.

true, that job doesnt have room for stupidity, tell them how it is. they dont like it, tough ****.

i have plenty of fun with idiots but when it comes down to it ive had no problem telling people to get lost because one way or another their presence is only gonna make things worse, and ive never had to deal with a call from HR

Thank goodness you're okay. From that speed, I'm assuming you were on the hilly section of balboa between costco and target?
That crash could've been bad considering a lot of cars go well over the speed limit in those parts and it doesn't take much to move out of the shoulder and into the lanes in the event of a crash.

Definitely not one of my preferred routes with the merger to/from Morena being a doosy with all the costco traffic going in and out as well.

I'd buy that in a heartbeat.

**** dude. I've gone 40+ a couple times before, and I was scared as hell. Hope you heal up quick!

Thanks.

My crash was in that hilly section, between Clairemont Drive and the Morena "doosy" part. I ride on that road far too often to access either Fiesta Island or Santa Fe/Rose Cyn Path. My apt. is by Mesa College.


As time goes on, I am feeling more and more this way myself. It's too perfect: same color, dimensions, frame material and age of the bike that I crashed today, 'cept it's a lot nicer.

[MENTION=89773]TMonk[/MENTION] get that bike, get some whiskey and heal up fast, it's racing season.

Today, I repacked my DA hubs. So smooth.

Sorry to learn of your crash. But grab that Tesch!:thumb: I raced a 101 for 10 years; they are awesome. Handling is incredibly quick but not twitchy. Never a corner I was afraid to dive into. My son was a cat 2 and rides crits well. It is the best handling crit bike he's ridden. And then there is the bling factor. Get well but get the Tesch:D

yesterday evening and night we had the Mother of All Rain Storms. yesterday I left one window down in my car. today I get out the wet vac and try to empty the rolling swimming pool. one more plus for bikes over cars.

[MENTION=89773]TMonk[/MENTION] as usual I am late to the party. Sorry to hear about your crash. Hope you heal soon and get back to riding.

[MENTION=89773]TMonk[/MENTION], heal quick man.

Boom.

Hehe..

Lucky we only got 3" of rain-a mere drizzle by Texas standards:cry:

Yeh but it aint over. It aint ever over.

Sucks though about yer wheels man. Sometimes you gotta make mistakes and then never again.

Really miss my 722. Want to build up another one.

At least you have plenty of days ahead that will dry that(yer car) right up.

Petroleum based grease just wrecks the plastic NDS cups of cheaper shimano BB's over time.

Someone bought the Tesch. ****. It was perfect!!!
I think I was a little too slow to the draw yesterday. I blame it on the painkillers.

Honestly that is exactly what I was looking for in the handling characteristics of my training bike; the one I totaled felt like boat(compared to a CAAD9 currently) whenever I rode it above endurance (z2) pace.

You live in the Land of Tesch. Maybe another one will come up. If you study the specs/geo the Tesch is closer to a track bike than a road bike with short wheelbase, short chainstays, steep seat tube and head tube angles and higher bottom bracket. Super stiff and over-built by traditional road bike standards. The forks are massive. Not a great bike for riding a century on rough roads but a beast to hammer on and dive through turns. "Built for Speed" as DT wrote on his bikes.