I am healing up nicely - no scars from the brambles. The neck is still sore and crackly, but i have most of my range of motion back. Still doing the daily PT stretches - probably for a few more weeks.
On the bike front, things are great! I went and picked it up yesterday, in fact. On Saturday, I received a call by a woman saying "I have your bike". I took down her number and address and went up yesterday to get it. I talked with her brother, who had evidently "found it laying on the side of the road". He said that he thought someone had stolen it and ditched it. When he got home, he noticed some blood on the helmet and bike, and said he called the hospital to see if anyone had come in from a bike crash. No reports, so he put it in the back shed. This last weekend, my "drew's list" ad in the lost and found paid off, as his sister noticed it there and asked her brother about that white bike he had found. They had the helmet, too - good as I wanted to see what it looked like, and it looks like it took a good bit of impact from what I'm betting was barbed wire fence, or a viciously strong blackberry branch. The bike also still had my water bottle on it:) The bike is in good shape - a bit rusty from being outside (chain and bolts, only), and it looks like he tried to take the valve stem off the back, but it's a tubeless setup, and he couldn't get the lock ring off the stem (scarred up the stem with a pliers a bit). I have a feeling that if he would have been able to pump up the back wheel, I may not have gotten the bike back. Tubeless saves the day?? I'm really happy to get the bike back, as it has some nice parts on it (Son Deluxe, Berthoud fenders, Nitto bars, stem, seatpost, Selle Anatomica saddle, my beloved Suntour XC Pro FD and XT RD, and of course the amazing Rene Herse crankset). The added bonus is I had purchased a replacement Toussaint in the new rev from the boys in Canada for a reduced price! I just told them about the return of the original, but they said they are happy I'm ok with 2 frames (I am!), so it's still on the way. I may make that into the town porter/commuter, a la Bill's Rosco - it's about the same color, and I have plenty of parts in the bin. Always wanted a low-trail porteur town bike. Now i just need a 650B wheelset. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ce0N_jIpn1g/WFmLkAXt2vI/AAAAAAAAH8E/zqvf8Uxw-XAgfnUvrgMPw6I2tqSgwFuXQCLcB/s1600/IMG_0088.JPG> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hxIlY9fuo_M/WFmLPEELVwI/AAAAAAAAH8A/xQaDb4B5n4k50-xfKYk4I1bkuXS-j0xvACLcB/s1600/IMG_0083.JPG> Brian Hanson Seattle, WA www.stonehog.com On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 12:51:15 AM UTC-8, Ian A wrote: > > Brian, > > Wondering how the healing is going (have you been looking after the cuts?) > and if your bike was recovered by you? > > IanA/Canada > > > On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 1:59:54 PM UTC-7, stonehog wrote: >> >> I had an off-road excursion into the ditch Friday night and spent a few >> hours in the ER getting my neck checked out. All ok, but will be sore for >> a week or two. Bike left in the ditch was taken before I was able to >> return - thank goodness it wasn't my Homer or Hunqa. Small price to pay >> for a bit of bad judgement. >> >> Wrote it up in my blog below, but to save a click: >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
