I Got in a Fight With a Toyota... And Won!

This tale is about the continuation of the epic struggle between cars and cyclists in Boulder, and how I made a bold daylight strike against a car!

Last Friday at about 11 in the morning I was on my way back from my morning set of classes for lunch. My apartment lies at the bottom of a steeply inclined road that would not look out of place in San Francisco. So naturally bikers riding down said hill usually coast with reckless abandon and soon begin passing cars that follow the speed limit of 30. Such was the case for me that Friday morning. The road that actually acesses my apartment, Taft Drive, has a sort of backwards S turn off of the steep road onto it. I made the first turn to the right just fine and went to make my immediate turn left. Unfortunately my kickstand decided that moment was an opportune time to deploy and as a result of a loose bolt the kickstand was down as I tried to lean to my left and then jammed into the street and flung me to my right... Into a Toyota.

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The car door made a rather accurate impression of my right shoulder
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The mirror that finally stopped me and actually the only damage I was aware of causing immediately after the accident. The note I left said "I nicked your mirror"

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Fortunately I only have a bruised every muscle in my shoulder and should be in the sling for only 2 weeks! Believe it or not my shoulder was the only thing of mine that was damaged, my bike looks the same as it did before and I didn't even actually land on the asphalt so I didn't even have any cuts other than a few from the mirror!

See what kind of hitting you could have had on your defence CU Hockey?