I've been traveling a lot for work lately, two trips in two weeks and another coming pretty soon. I have been able to keep up some level of riding during my trips, but it's not easy.
On my first trip I decided I would take a bike with. It was pretty easy to choose the Lotus as the bike that gets the nod, I was going to sell it this spring anyways, but now I'm going to just leave it down at the Stennis Space Center for me to use when I travel there. I'm happy that I have a bike to ride down there now and Andie's happy that there's one less bike milling around the house.
Riding along in the dark, a few minutes before my crash. Thankfully my crash happened 50 yards from my car as I was going out for another out-and-back to get my time in.
This is the culprit of the crash. I was looking to make sure traffic was clear at the approaching intersection and when I looked back down, BAM! My left foot slammed into the pole, I fish-tailed out, for a fleeting moment I thought I could recover from it all and then I went down hard. I was surprised that I didn't break my left foot or the pedal. The damage? Rear wheel out of true, handlebars scraped, stem twisted, brake hoods twisted and me...
I think this is from my mini pump jamming into me when I hit the deck. I also had a huge swollen bump on my right shin, a bruised right palm and the worst was a bruised left hip/groin area (no pics of that). The hip/groin area is still a little sore after two weeks, but getting better, I must've hit a bar pretty hard as the bruise looked like I had been caned, a few millimeters to the right and I would've been really hurting.
I wonder how many of these tweeks were caused by the bike hitting the ground or some body part slamming into the bike (the front wheel is facing straight forward).
The ghetto hotel room bike stand, it was sufficient to get me rolling again. MacGyver out!
Some of the sites from riding at the Stennis Space Center. The Navy's submersible Alvin.
Saturn V's F1 engine, an absolute beast. This is the engine that sent us to the moon, well 5 of them did. That must've been a spectacle to see those things light up.
Space Shuttle Main Engine, the shuttle uses 3 of these.
A Redstone Jupiter C from the 50's, and my bike from the 90's.
Solid rocket booster for the space shuttle
A street sign with no street intersecting, remnants of a ghost town.
A Rolls Royce jet engine on their test stand, that would be fun to see spin up.
1 day after the crash, it pretty much looks the same two weeks afterwards as well.
You can start to see the bruise at the heel of my hand, that's an Andie-esque type injury there.
The grand finale, a space shuttle main engine test, this shook our building and caused it to rain a little a few minutes after the test.
Mardi Gras Parades! Some of those floats are amazing, I believe this was one of the floats from the Krewe of Hermes.
The view from the 39th floor in my hotel room in New Orleans. The bridge you see goes over the Mississippi River.
The parade was still going on on the streets below as I went to bed.
The fixie fad is going strong in New Orleans as well.
First class is the way to fly. I have a cheesecake on my plate, but it's whited out. This was the first time I flew first class this nice, it was all because I was bumped from my original flight.
Riding along in the dark, a few minutes before my crash. Thankfully my crash happened 50 yards from my car as I was going out for another out-and-back to get my time in.
This is the culprit of the crash. I was looking to make sure traffic was clear at the approaching intersection and when I looked back down, BAM! My left foot slammed into the pole, I fish-tailed out, for a fleeting moment I thought I could recover from it all and then I went down hard. I was surprised that I didn't break my left foot or the pedal. The damage? Rear wheel out of true, handlebars scraped, stem twisted, brake hoods twisted and me...
I think this is from my mini pump jamming into me when I hit the deck. I also had a huge swollen bump on my right shin, a bruised right palm and the worst was a bruised left hip/groin area (no pics of that). The hip/groin area is still a little sore after two weeks, but getting better, I must've hit a bar pretty hard as the bruise looked like I had been caned, a few millimeters to the right and I would've been really hurting.
I wonder how many of these tweeks were caused by the bike hitting the ground or some body part slamming into the bike (the front wheel is facing straight forward).
The ghetto hotel room bike stand, it was sufficient to get me rolling again. MacGyver out!
Some of the sites from riding at the Stennis Space Center. The Navy's submersible Alvin.
Saturn V's F1 engine, an absolute beast. This is the engine that sent us to the moon, well 5 of them did. That must've been a spectacle to see those things light up.
Space Shuttle Main Engine, the shuttle uses 3 of these.
A Redstone Jupiter C from the 50's, and my bike from the 90's.
Solid rocket booster for the space shuttle
A street sign with no street intersecting, remnants of a ghost town.
A Rolls Royce jet engine on their test stand, that would be fun to see spin up.
1 day after the crash, it pretty much looks the same two weeks afterwards as well.
You can start to see the bruise at the heel of my hand, that's an Andie-esque type injury there.
The grand finale, a space shuttle main engine test, this shook our building and caused it to rain a little a few minutes after the test.
Mardi Gras Parades! Some of those floats are amazing, I believe this was one of the floats from the Krewe of Hermes.
The view from the 39th floor in my hotel room in New Orleans. The bridge you see goes over the Mississippi River.
The parade was still going on on the streets below as I went to bed.
The fixie fad is going strong in New Orleans as well.
First class is the way to fly. I have a cheesecake on my plate, but it's whited out. This was the first time I flew first class this nice, it was all because I was bumped from my original flight.
