Posted By Frederick Jones on 10/09/2022 07:38 PM
Hey Ben,
Thanks for your story.
The angel on one of my shoulders says "Sorry you got doored by a clearly stupid, dangerous, inconsiderate driver. Bad luck that".
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Meanwhile, the smartass devil on the other shoulder says "what did you expect with Mafac brakes? I designed those brakes personally!"
Attempted humor aside, hope you recovered fully from that episode.
That dooring was NBD. It was my next one 12 years later, same bike, same brakes that got me. Wrecked shoulder, mild concussion. Helmet saved my ear by deflecting the door back in and my head out. (Both cases were compete ambushes. I had no way of seeing that anybody was in the car. Both were the only car parked on the street. For both I knew there was a car behind me. First was parked under a streetlight so I couldn't see n the windows. 2nd, the driver was messing around the passenger seat floor looking for her kids toys.
And for both, my hands were nowhere near the brakes. Even disks would have made zero difference. But on the first, that door and the Mafac lever that hit it activated the rear brake, helping with bike control. (And TG my fingers were not there!)
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