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=> Freewheeling => Topic started by: sam on October 27, 2005
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Am currently in Ohio. They have the internet here, too, but this seemed as good a time as any for an intermission. More later.
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I had an accident early yesterday morning and was knocked unconscious. No cars were involved, just a badly made country road, which I was found lying in the middle of. Left a nice pool of blood behind. Did the hospital thing, and am now laid up.
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Now that I'm back home home, time for some pictures.
(https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/bikereader/forum/pics/gibson.jpg)
William Harvey Gibson loiters with intent in front of the courthouse.
Gibson was a 19th century Republican. Not much has changed in the political landscape.
(https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/bikereader/forum/pics/gibson2.jpg)
"Piety and patriotism." I told you not much had changed.
Sentiments courtesy the 25th occupant of the squashed circle office, another Ohio boy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley).
(https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/bikereader/forum/pics/gibson3.jpg)
A Gibson groupie.
(https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/bikereader/forum/pics/road.jpg)
Route 162. Not the bit that did me in, but a bumpy foreshadowing.
(https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/bikereader/forum/pics/bficu.jpg)
They let me keep it in the exam room.
Scroll quickly past the next picture if you're squeamish.
(https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/bikereader/forum/pics/bloody.jpg)
Only four stitches. The hospital bills came to $500 per stitch.
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(https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/bikereader/forum/pics/hole.jpg)
The hole wot got me.
(https://www.notanothercyclingforum.net/bikereader/forum/pics/bottle.jpg)
Evidence.