Tuesday my bike group was going for a trip East of Gilroy up within the hills. We might begin at Mendoza ranch parking zone, so I carpooled up there with our trip chief, my pal Kris.

We headed as much as the beginning, and took off up Gilroy Scorching Springs highway, an exquisite mountain trip.

On the way in which again, I began to show onto Canada highway off of Gilroy Scorching Springs highway. That’s the very last thing I bear in mind till waking up with somebody asking me questions. Apparently I had slipped on some gravel on the junction and went down, hitting my head, and was out for five minutes.

This was out entrance of the CalFire station, so my associates didn’t even should name for assist, the firefighters got here operating out. The CalFire paramedics verified I used to be coherent, received my wounds stabilized, then received me on the backboard and fitted with a cervical collar. They shifted me to the ambulance gurney. My associates waited with me whereas this was happening. Subsequent I used to be transported to San Jose Regional Medical heart, the closest trauma heart.

At Regional they took a Cat scan and it got here again regular, so no severe head trauma. I had a extra extreme laceration on my face which received super-glued, every thing else was minor owwies that I’ve to maintain clear. That knee bandage on my proper leg was simply overlaying a bunch of miscellaneous minor scrapes. So I received to go house, with directions to keep away from bicycling (or some other contact sports activities) for a number of days, and comply with up with my major care doc. This might have been lots worse, I’ve scrapes on my palms so apparently caught them out to brace myself as I used to be falling. That might have simply resulted in a collarbone break. And my abrasions had been minor in comparison with severe highway rash.

Classes:

• Select rides rigorously
  • Sirrus (skinny drained highway bike) is for easy highway rides solely
  • use solely vado (bike with fatter tires) if something however a easy floor (after all, this can not all the time be predicted, we thought yesterday was going to be on easy highway floor, however the county is busy repaving these roads).
• cut back quantity of motorbike driving, crash hazard is proportional to time on highway.

After all, crashes can nonetheless occur, however it’s good to take measures to attenuate the hazard. At this time I’m on the mend. The principle symptom is a minor headache and a few abrasions. All’s nicely that ends nicely!