Thread:JenniferLNW/@comment-28152535-20160727222728/@comment-28152535-20160728150038

This morning was a tough ride we already had 86 degrees at 9.00am, but I did my 3 rounds through the subdivision. Waspretty beaten when I got home.... Currently hubby and I ride Trek bicycles. I have a real roadbike but right now I'm afraid to ride it. Got rhis bike in late winter of 2014. Hubby got his first roadbike in spring of 2013. It was a great deal, the bike was a show bike and come with a great discount. Carbon fiber frame, electronic shifting (at this time I had no idea that this was awailable for bicycles🤔) we named that bike Grace and hubby loved that bike. He went on long rides with that bike on weekends. He bought a prepaid cellphone so he could call me if he got into bad weather or had a flat tire, which happened quite often. So one Sunday afternoon in March of 2014 when I saw his number on my phones display I thought he wanted to be picked up somewhere. I answered the phone, talking in german "Hi hon, where do you want me to pick you up" a woman answered in english and at that moment a thousend thoughts went through my mind. It took me a while that she was calling to tell me that hubby was in a car accident and that he was at the hospital. She then described to me how to get to the hospital. It is more than 20 minutes away from home and I realized just a few minutes away from the hospital that I was in my car... Long story short hubby had a pretty bad concussion and all of this disks in his neck are dislocated. We later learned that the (still) high price for the bike, plus the helmet, saved his life. A young driver turned left right in front of him thinking that she had the right of way😠😠 and hubby hit her trunk with the bikes front tire and from there until the paramedics woke him up he has no memory. Because the frame of the bike was made out of fiber carbon it took most of the shock from the inpact away from him... The frame looked like it only needed a paint job when in fact the frame had cracked. The reason why I named that bike Grace was that if I ever had a daughter I wanted to name her Emily Grace, hubby does not like the name Emily so much so it was Grace... Soory for the long story, but this is the reason why it took me so long to get back on my bike and I'm still afraid of the road bike, which I named Püppi, which comes from the word Puppe (doll). Hubby always shakes his head when he sees the bottle holder but I like them and I hope that in a few month/weeks I will be riding Püppi again. Jennifer, I'm thinking of you for the last two days of work at that unappreciated place. Just one more night and you know all of your wiki friends are at your side😘❤️💙😍😘👭😻💞 Callie, thanks for the bike chick, especially because I have this strange skin condition in my face that every time I work out or it is hot my face looks like I belong to the cooked lobster family, bright red. It looks like I'm just a second away from falling dead of my bike, hehe