Unexpected Adventure On Tuesday Group Ride – BionicOldGuy

Tuesday my bike group was going for a trip East of Gilroy up within the hills. We would begin at Mendoza ranch parking zone, so I carpooled up there with our trip chief, my pal Kris.

We headed as much as the beginning, and took off up Gilroy Hot Springs street, a stupendous mountain trip.

On the way in which again, I began to show onto Canada street off of Gilroy Hot Springs street. That’s the very last thing I bear in mind till waking up with somebody asking me questions. Apparently I had slipped on some gravel on the junction and went down, hitting my head, and was out for five minutes.

This was out entrance of the CalFire station, so my mates didn’t even need to name for assist, the firefighters got here working out. The CalFire paramedics verified I used to be coherent, acquired my wounds stabilized, then acquired me on the backboard and fitted with a cervical collar. They shifted me to the ambulance gurney. My mates waited with me whereas this was happening. Next I used to be transported to San Jose Regional Medical middle, the closest trauma middle.

At Regional they took a Cat scan and it got here again regular, so no severe head trauma. I had a extra extreme laceration on my face which acquired super-glued, every little thing else was minor owwies that I’ve to maintain clear. That knee bandage on my proper leg was simply protecting a bunch of miscellaneous minor scrapes. So I acquired to go house, with directions to keep away from bicycling (or every other contact sports activities) for a number of days, and observe up with my major care doc. This may have been quite a bit worse, I’ve scrapes on my palms so apparently caught them out to brace myself as I used to be falling. That may have simply resulted in a collarbone break. And my abrasions have been minor in comparison with severe street rash.

Lessons:

• Choose rides fastidiously
  • Sirrus (skinny drained street bike) is for clean street rides solely
  • use solely vado (bike with fatter tires) if something however a clean floor (in fact, this can’t all the time be predicted, we thought yesterday was going to be on clean street floor, however the county is busy repaving these roads).
• cut back quantity of motorcycle using, crash hazard is proportional to time on street.

Of course, crashes can nonetheless occur, however it’s good to take measures to attenuate the hazard. Today I’m on the mend. The essential symptom is a minor headache and a few abrasions. All’s nicely that ends nicely!