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JWestland
Front tyre into a narrow tramline-like pothole sending me swinging in the side of a black cab and then onto the tarmac tonight.
Luckily no major damage - elbow scraped up, but the Kevlar stitching they put in the last time I came off seems to have done its job... Hole in 2-day old glove and small rip in my well used alpha jacket. My lid made a very loud cracking sound when it hit, so that needs replacing too. Bike seems fine.
Driver behind was very helpful and the taxi stopped to check I was ok.
Edit - dunno why it’s upside down, but here’s an action shot of the wheel in the hole the fraction of a second before I fall off