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my annual fall from my bike

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

We went to Tachikawa today to get me onto a mobile phone service. ¥1,300 a month is the base cost of the service with 1 GB of data and no minutes (but who uses a phone!). On the way, I was following Mari who switched from the street to the sidewalk where a motorcycle delivery fellow was idling his car quite close to the curb. I didn't want to follow her onto the curb with the pedestrians so I tried to edge past the delivery bike. My pedal clipped the curb and I went down. Happily everything's OK, though I managed to get stains on my jeans.

I believe this is my first fall in about 18 months, in part because I abruptly stopped riding in October of '19 and I seem to take most of my cycling spills between mid November and mid March. Maybe I've got it out of the way early this winter!