01-06-2005, 09:10 AM
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| Guest | Re: Sierra Club -- cycling is scary
On 4 Jan 2005 18:14:12 -0800, chet.anderson@gmail.com wrote:
>>From the January issue of the Sierra Club's magazine, ostensibly trying
>to encourage people to ride:
When I saw the Subject line in the OPs article I thought it was going
to refer to an incident I was involved in. Last fall my girlfriend
Julie and I were on a Sierra Club outing to ride the Katy Trail in
Missouri.
On Saturday, October 16, twelve participants (plus the driver) were
in a 15 passenger van (plus a trailer full of bikes and gear)
traveling from St. Charles, Missouri to Clinton, Missouri when we were
involved in a nasty accident west of Sedalia. I just suffered bumps
and bruises, but Julie had two broken ribs.
Of the 13 people, two were hospitalized for a few days, three went
home, the driver (three dislocated toes) went back to St. Charles,
one of the hospitalized women's husband stayed in Sedalia with her,
and five of us completed the ride. Julie followed along in a van we
rented.
Both of our bikes were damaged and I finished the ride on my Fuji
touring bike using Julie's rear wheel. Mine was too tacoed to re-true
and Julie's rear rack was crushed, but between the two we made
one rideable bike.
BTW, Julie and I will be leading a Sierra Club cycling outing in
Summit County, Colorado in August. If you're a member, see "Bicycle"
in the Outings section of the latest club magazine. :-)
YABTW, I'm not in Sierra Club for the politics, I'm in it for the
outings. ;-)
jeverett3<AT>earthlink<DOT>net http://home.earthlink.net/~jeverett3
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