Saturday, March 31, 2007
"Live to Ride - Ride to Live"
Today I went riding with 4 friends: Jared (VRod), Rob (K1200R), Jason (Ninja), and Glen (Shadow). The plan was to ride up Myers Gultch from 285 through Evergreen and then South on 73, East on N Turkey Creek, South on Deer Creek Canyon, South on 85 towards Colorado Springs and then North on 83 back to Denver. We only made it a couple of miles up Myers Gultch Rd before I noticed that only Jason and Rob were following closely behind my lead. After the curves, we pulled over on a straight-a-way, threw on our hazards, and decided to wait 1 minute before turning back to see what happened to Jared and Glen. Because the mountain roads were still covered in gravel, we all feared the same thing - but none of us spoke it.
A moment later, a heavy duty truck that we had passed earlier slowed down and the passenger rolled down his window. I couldn't make out what was being said because I still had my helmet on. They drove off before we could ask him to repeat himself, but we took it as confirmation that something had gone wrong. We waited and watched to see what vehicles were coming out of the corner behind us. Headlights...but it wasn't a motorcycle. The driver stopped to tell us that one of our friends had fallen but was OK. We turned around to discover about a mile down the road the shoulder was torn up and dirt was spewed across the street next to Jared's parked bike. Both Jared and Glenn and their bikes were upright by the time we arrived so it took a moment to put the pieces of the story together. Who had fallen?
Glen was going too fast to hold the curve and drove off onto the shoulder. He managed to maintain control of the bike and bring it back to the road where he fishtailed three times before falling over. This was Glen's first (and hopefully only) accident. His bike suffered $250 in damage and the leather jacket that Jared loaned him received a small tear at the chest. But Glen walked away without a scratch and lives to tell the tale and ride another day!Jared joked that if only I had caught that on video, it would've been the most viewed clip on YouTube. He's probably right.
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It was one of the funniest moments in my life. I could not even tae my helmet off because I ws afraid that Glen would see me laugh. It is no the fact that he fell, it is how he fell. I was tearing up. Thanks god he is ok and hopefully it won't happen again.
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