Respect those rocks and wear those helmets!!

Skip and I went out for or normal Tuesday morning ride. It is a pretty easy 24 mile course to Livermore and back but Skip managed to make it complicated this week. As we were coming down Concannon, a slight downhill, cruising at about 20 mph, he started to look behind him to see if I was with him and at the same time hit a small rock.

I saw his front wheel turn suddenly to the right causing his upper body to fall to the left. He went down fast, landing on his left hip and side and rolled feet over head into the middle of the car lane. There was an SUV next to us and luckily the woman was paying close attention to us and slammed on her brakes. Skip quickly rolled to the bike lane and scooted over to the curb.

He is pretty beaten up with major bruising to his hip, ribs, and shoulder but he will be ok. The really scary thing is that he was in the bike lane, the car was in the car lane, everyone was doing what they were supposed to be doing and that little rock could have caused major injury. If she had been passing him at the time he fell, she would not have been able to avoid hitting him.

Also, his helmet is history but luckily his head is not!!! So the moral of this story is RESPECT THOSE ROCKS AND WEAR THOSE HELMETS !!!