A beautiful day. High of 72 F and light winds...
Catalina in the distance.
Never get tired of looking at and being near the ocean...
A lot of people on bikes today (a little more than usual for a Wednesday).
Malibu in the distance...
My usual bench is taken today.
Sat on a bench on the opposite side...
I crashed again.
I was transitioning from the service road to the bike path at this point (to avoid lots of sand on the service road, coming up...)
I was going very slow (5 MPH?) to make this sharp left turn.
I apparently turned left a little too soon.
Did not see the edge of the concrete section (covered by sand).
As I turned, I caught the edge of the concrete section and fell over...
The "gouged" area of sand in the "boxed" area is my front wheel/tire sliding across the edge of the concrete, instead of going over it.
During the fall, I banged my right shin against something (don't know if it was the concrete or something on the bike) and got a nice bump/cut.
Also got a 5 mm road rash patch on my right hand.
Overall, not much damage.
The bike got some sand on it but maybe because of landing on the sand, I didn't see any obvious damage.
Several people must have seen me crash, because I was asked if I'm OK by some people riding by and by some people walking on the bike path. Nice of them to ask (some positive energy for a change).
Rode home with no further issues...
Still averaged 19.3 MPH.
I can't count how many times I've crashed on/off the bike...
In terms of falls, this was about as minor as it gets (short of having nothing happen to me or the bike).
The spare wheels are running on Continental Gartorskin on the front and Continental Grand Prix on the rear...
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