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First serious injury involving a bike in about 20 years. I can't believe it -- it all happened so fast, and I realize I was just being too stupid... And it's all my fault (single rider accident) -- humiliatingly so. The fact that I was only wearing shorts & a tshirt (barefoot) didn't help at all either. So much for AGATT...
After pulling another all-nighter, I went out, fired her up and rocked her forward off the centerstand, then started duck-walking her backwards off my porch. The drop to the sidewalk is about 3 - 4", and as the backwheel dropped down to the sidewalk, the sidestand came down on my big toe (still on the porch) with some serious force, biting me like a rabied rottweiler with a vengence. #@$*%#%$ that hurt! I hadn't realized that the sidestand was down when I started duckwalking backwards. No, I didn't drop it -- I just leaned it over and got my toe out, angry at myself about the shear stupidity of the mistake.
I'll confess that I was only moving the bike about 15 feet, taking it into the living room to strip it down and do some wiring, a few more installations in the luxury of the A/C rather than in the dank humidity of Florida's summer... so I didn't think gearing up fully was really important.
Fricken shifter toe is various shades of late-dusk now. I just hope it's 100% again by the rally, or I'm going to be putting along in a single gear most of the time...
Feeling really stupid.
=-= The CyberPoet
After pulling another all-nighter, I went out, fired her up and rocked her forward off the centerstand, then started duck-walking her backwards off my porch. The drop to the sidewalk is about 3 - 4", and as the backwheel dropped down to the sidewalk, the sidestand came down on my big toe (still on the porch) with some serious force, biting me like a rabied rottweiler with a vengence. #@$*%#%$ that hurt! I hadn't realized that the sidestand was down when I started duckwalking backwards. No, I didn't drop it -- I just leaned it over and got my toe out, angry at myself about the shear stupidity of the mistake.
I'll confess that I was only moving the bike about 15 feet, taking it into the living room to strip it down and do some wiring, a few more installations in the luxury of the A/C rather than in the dank humidity of Florida's summer... so I didn't think gearing up fully was really important.
Fricken shifter toe is various shades of late-dusk now. I just hope it's 100% again by the rally, or I'm going to be putting along in a single gear most of the time...
Feeling really stupid.
=-= The CyberPoet
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