Sat/Sun, October 15th and 16th.

I got for a nice windy ride on Saturday. I was pushed along at 20+mph on the trip out and had to struggle to maintain 14mph on the return leg.

Then on Sunday, I made the trip up to Lakeville to ride with the Silver Boys.

They had about 50 people show up. A lot of the usuals, a few new faces, and even a couple of surprises (i.e. JT).

We rolled along nicely and from my position near the middle-back, I could hardly notice the wind. I'm sure the big dogs up front were feeling it though.

Around mile 16 or so, someone just ahead of me caught their front tire in one of the vertical cracks in the road. As he attempted to maintain his upright position, he tapped the front wheel of a gal just behind him. And unfortunately she went down, taking a couple of others behind her. I saw the whole thing in super-slow-mo and started heading for the ditch to avoid the ever growing pileup. Just as I thought I could ride it out in the ditch, a riderless bike slide into my path and I caught the back wheel. That was all I needed to launch me over the handle bars, tumble head first into the ditch with the bike still nicely clipped in.

I must have done a nice tuck-and-roll, because there were no injuries or damage to me or the bike. My left brake and my handelbars were a bit mis-aligned, but other than that I was fine.

The gal landed kinda hard on her hip I think, but there was no visiable signs of major damage. She continued the ride as if nothing had happened.

I think the only other casuality that I saw was Shad's left brake handle was broken when he went down somewhere in the mayhem.

Pretty exciting weekend of riding...