Damn, it happened again! After having to avoid almost an idiot a week on the bike path, finally one managed to ram head-on into me. I flew spinning off the bike, landed flat on my back onto the path, landing on one shoulder and feel it pop out then back in, then rolled onto the other, dislocating it as well. Managed to grab my shoulder and pull as I sat up, so it went thump back into place — painfully. End result, one dislocated shoulder, one sprained shoulder, and a graze on my right hip.

All happened on a straight piece of path near the Toorak road underpass, some 60-ish guy managed to come up behind two women riding towards me and pull out to overtake them without looking up! I yelled and swerved left off the path but the idiot then managed to swerve off straight into my path! He claimed that “…I saw you and went bush — I go bush when there’s danger….” With considerable frustration I pointed out that it might help if he headed left when there’s danger, and that if he tried a stunt like that on the road he’d get killed.

Only one good thing came of it, there was no damage to Norky bike, but somehow I managed to almost destroy his bike. I think my left pedal hooked his front wheel and forced it back into the frame, there’s now a Shogun Metro SE out there that has forks that bend backwards! The impact blew out his tyre as well.