Re: Tetra Pro Fun and Funny: Bikefanclub.com

Since I have had getting a Calfee in my mind for quite a few months I have been lurking on this site. I had lost my job a couple of months ago but am lucky now becaue I'm starting a new job. The thought of getting a Calfee is not coming toward the top of my long term priority stack.

KYCalfee do no feel bad. We all crash now and again. My most recent crash was full of irony. I had been on a slow ride, staying with my wife. We are on different planes so staying with her is a very slow ride for me. We had done our trail ride and were heading back home on back streets. I was next to her, on the inside. The gutter on the side has a shallow slow down then slopes up and curves into the sidewalk. One can easily ride up and down along these gentle slopes designed as water channels when it rains.

A car was coming behind us, so I moved a bit closer to the curb. There was a wet spot from an errant sprinkler just before a driveway that spanned across the curbing with a drain pipe under it. When my front wheel hit the wet spot it immediately side-slipped. This was just a couple of feet in front of the drain, which I slammed into. I was thrown onto my left side.

My handlebars had been twisted to nearly parallel with the front wheel and the wheel itself was bent so badly that I could not open the brakes up enough to allow the wheel to spin without binding against both sides of the brakes. I made a careful inspection and determined the fork had no damage and the bars slipped as they should have because I am a firm believer in "tight enough," on adjusting bolts and such.

I had to replace the wheel since the rim was too bent to keep it's strenth if bent back into shape, if it could be bent back successfully. My body was mainly just bruised on the knees and shoulder. This was a low-speed crash. This was one of those times when I was surprised that the bike was worse off than my body.

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