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@big_daddy_wayne
geezer - glad you're alright [hope that wasn't your new frame that ended on the floor]
understandable you felt bad, you'd have to have a black f**in heart not to care about someones else being that hurt.
I 'm beginning to think that the difference between cyclists and peds/cabbies/cars etc is that they seem to have abdicated all responsibility for their own welfare. It's up to 'other people' to make sure that they come to no harm and they carry own with impunity.
On the whole, as cyclists, we are painfully aware of the consequences of out actions and are continually assesing and reacting to risk