Saturday, October 13, 2007

Evel Kowalski

We had quite a scare on our last ride on Saturday morning. Nancy was riding up a narrow trail and took her eyes of the trail for a second and drifted to the left and hit a boulder about the size of a bushel basket. It tipped her almost over and the quad righted itself, but she still had her thumb on the accelerator, causing her to veer to the left up the side of the trail. That caused the quad to tip over and launched her off on the down side of the trail. The quad rolled over on it's back and then tried to roll over onto her, but the little trees prevented it from going any further. She ended up with a bruised knee, ankle, and wrist and thumb. No cuts or torn clothing. I ended up with a myocardial infarction watching all of this happen right in front of me. She was very lucky not to have been seriously hurt. Gary, Bryan and I tipped it upright, and other than a couple of scratches, the quad was in great shape. The whole thing could have been a whole lot worse. Needless to say, Nancy drove a lot more tentatively the rest of the trip.

2 comments:

Ashley said...

Looks like fun, except for doing something I did when I was 8 years old.

Nancy said...

It was lots of fun. I thought of you, Ashley, after I rolled the quad. I didn't think I was going to die, though. The word is cautiously, not tentatively, Alan. You would, too, if you were as inexperienced as me on those trails and rolled it.