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

We headed as much as the beginning, and took off up Gilroy Scorching Springs highway, a good looking mountain experience.

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 need to name for assist, the firefighters got here working 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 occurring. Subsequent I used to be transported to San Jose Regional Medical middle, the closest trauma middle.

At Regional they took a Cat scan and it got here again regular, so no critical head trauma. I had a extra extreme laceration on my face which received super-glued, all the pieces else was minor owwies that I’ve to maintain clear. That knee bandage on my proper leg was simply masking a bunch of miscellaneous minor scrapes. So I received to go house, with directions to keep away from bicycling (or another contact sports activities) for a number of days, and comply with up with my main care doc. This might have been so much worse, I’ve scrapes on my fingers 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 have been minor in comparison with critical highway rash.

Classes:

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

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