Well,

for those of you who have been following this
thread,  I literally hit the road Saturday
afternoon on my ten-speed.

I had just left Walnut Hill Park in New Britain,
Conn, Mom's hometown, and was heading down past
the hospital towards downtown, to take more
pictures.

The pavement is new there and the road crew
covered a small pipe cover with blacktop, masking
it.
Hitting that dip at 15 mph felt like the bike was
going off a cliff.
I slid on the pavement 25 feet and scraped my
self up bad. My right shoulder is injured to the
point I can only move my forearm.

After about ten minutes of just trying to deal
with the pain,
I marched back up the hill and a lady watering
flowers gave me aid and she and her husband
dressed my wounds.

I camped in Willow Brook Park and could barely
move this morning.
Some medince helped, and a couple walking their
dogs went home and brought back some bandages and
ointment.

I could'nt drive today and am leaving in the
morning.
A local ebay customer and Vanagon guy named Doug
came to drive me to Burger Thing for dinner.

Nice weather here in Connecticut makes me think
I'm in California.

Seattle today was 59 and raining.
SO I will tryt to enjoy the ride back on new
tires and hopefully I won't have anyb more
problems.

Robert

1982 Westfalia

____________________________________________________________________________________
Got a little couch potato?
Check out fun summer activities for kids.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz