Wednesday, remote start at White Lake State Park north of Wolfeboro on Rt 16. Planning on riding through Wolfeboro, along the north side of Lake Winnepesauki on rt 109 and making a large loop around to the northwest and back to the start with about 70mi to go.
Start at White Lake SP:
This must ahve been Wolfeboro:
Checking for directions, getting hungry, nothing, really nothing to stop for a coffee around...
The road sign "East Sandwich" sounded good, but still nothing, getting more hungry... some where at mile 53 on a gentle uphill a few things add up and ended in a little crash for Py.
From Py's view things happened about like this in a few seconds - as explained to a buddy previeously:
Yeah, some stupid crash.... just a bunch of events came together. In short, me dropping back from a pull on right on a gentle uphill, almost at end of the lead group almost behind B. on right I started to move left... as a big Propane Truck was approaching from behind and as it about passed us, B. moved slightly to the right -- the same time I moved to the left, also he must decreased speed much more than me that moment on this uphill... and I touched his wheel from right, stayed on it far too long was able to balance it out for seams like several seconds as he did NOT got off and ahead quickly nor did I grabbed the brake (what may could have saved me) :-( And as I finally came off I had so much pressure on it to the left that I over steered and my front wheel tumbled at some odd angle and about skidded sideways unable to recover from that after a bunch of skidds... I tipped over to the left -- almost at zero speed that moment. Not a scratch on the frame, just the rear skewer had a few minor scrapes and the right brake lever -- all working fine, I finished ride and also next days with no problem :-) "Only" my left under arm has a pretty big scrape and a little deep wound which just sucks... + my right hand has some road rash on top where it actually cut the glove in half -- should use MTB gloves...... :-(
However, the truck driver must have gotten scared by the odd sounds of crashing and actually returned to the scene, happy to see all were fine and helped out with an sterile pad to cover the bigger road rash - big thanks to the driver! Two vecro strips from K&R did a good job to held it in place.
Finally, after a few more miles at mile 62 in Tamworth a little village with an nice General Store and Coffee place was very welcome:
From there after a good recovery lunch just a few miles were left to finish the ride.
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