I survived, the Cervelo P1 did not.

20 years of road riding and it was bound to happen. Frankly, I'm surprised it took this long. At the very end of a 100km ride today I was hit by a Lincoln Towncar that was attempting to cross the road I was traveling down. Yes I was wearing a helmet as everyone should do.

I was traveling 18 mph according to the powertap record and I remember looking up and seeing the front quarterpanel of a car right in front of me. It looks like he was trying to beat 2 lines of cars across the road and didn't see the bike. I had time to get on the brakes very briefly before impact. I rolled up onto the hood, I remember dropping a very loud F-bomb as I was in the air, slid up into the windshield and cracked it, and then slid forward ending up on the road about 6 or 8 feet in front of the car. My bike ended up flying about 30 feet.

Off duty cop happened to be waiting to turn the other way and saw the whole thing which makes for a very credible witness. He called 911 and the paramedics came and checked me out. I spent the afternoon getting very boring neck and shoulder xrays. My whole right side of my body is sore and my shoulder, hip, and knee are bruised and swelling up. Doctor wrote me a vicodin prescription but I'm hoping advil takes care of it.

Apparently I have a good rolling/landing reflex because I'm not sure I could have taken the impact much more cleanly. I really can't believe my collarbone survived. My front fork is sheered off, the handlebars are crooked, the brakes levers and shifter are bent, the crank and chain are a mess, too.

I guess now it's advil time, deal with insurance, and then assess what parts of the bike can be saved and what will need to be replaced (most I guess). Looks like my road bike will be getting some love for the next few weeks.

If you're curious what a crash looks like on powertap here's a 6 second snapshot... 18 to 4mph in < 1 second.





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