Not my day.....

As I wrote this morning things were going in my favor. All the rain dropped during the night, blue skies were overtaking the scarce dark puffs, temps rising into the 60s, new Flyte hanging in my bike stand, pancakes and coffee on the stove, and a group meeting north of Nashville at 10:45 that I will be able to make. That all sounds good.....right? Yes it does! And it all went well besides the relentless winds pummeling me until I split from the group to ride home.

I admit I was pretty wiped out after 3 hrs of 20+ mph gusts and some steady efforts but that did not have any relation to the events that caused the day to be a little upsetting. What you might ask....I wrecked the new bike and slid it across some blacktop on its second voyage. I was not a happy camper and there was no one to even blame or get mad at; not even myself!

How is that possible? Well unless I can blame the wind (hmmm sounds like an old Milli Vanilli song) or the almighty himself, I'm out of luck. As I rolled through an intersection just on the northern side of Nashville something happened that I couldn't repeat if I actually tried. I was passing some construction barrels that unfortunately had loose yellow caution tape between them. Yeah I can see it in slow motion now. The wind gusts, the tape bow out past the edge of the road and right under my drops. Actually nothing I could do as it entangled in my bars and pulled my front end right out from under me. Luckily I didn't get hit by the Cherokee that was coming by me as I slid out in the road on my side. I managed to only come out with a nice sized strawberry on my hip, elbow, and across my lower leg. Too bad the skewers, bar tape, and Dura-Ace shifters took the fall as well. Arrrggghhhh! New bike no more and I guess I don't have to worry about getting the newness worn off now. Only cosmetics really so ride on!