Yesterday I came off the bike behind the supermarket at the end of the Roseburn path (towards South Queensferry - Davidson's Mains). The path has been "treated" with a thick pouring of marble-sized gravel which resulted in a long slide on my left elbow and thigh.
This morning was beautiful and crisp and sunny, perfect if I hadn't had a run-in with a Highways Agency tipper truck that was driving on the wrong side of the road (!!) approaching a T-junction by Kirkliston.
Luckily I was climbing - if it had been a descent I'd have been right under his front wheels. As it was, I've cut up my elbow and thigh right over the cuts on my elbow and thigh from yesterday :(
The driver shouted out of his window that he needed to be on the wrong side of the road to get around the corner. However, he was blatantly lying because he then turned out perfectly well from the proper side of the road (he'd had to swerve back onto his side to avoid flattening me as I skidded down the road).
I won't blacken the forum with my true rage. However, I suppose I should be grateful that I was on a low bike and not the fixed-wheel. I've got a tenth of the injury from two crashes that I suffered when my MTB chain broke in town over winter!
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