MTB has had a shocking decrease in fork travel, time to take it to the shop. I see from April pictures in the blog there are indicators on the stanchions that are no longer visible.
Also time to take Floyd's bike into the shop unfortunately - a deer ran into his rear wheel/pedal this AM as we went down Grizzly Peak in the dark at 38+ MPH - Floyd was ahead of me.
The first deer passed in front, but a little one jumped out and stuck itself into Floyd's wheel, went down hard and sent Floyd flipping into the air. He handed hard on his butt, hit his helmet and got his chin but stayed conscious and no broken bones - actually a wrist. The deer was killed instantly, the rear wheel of the bike yanked out of its dropouts and dented. The right side pedal had blood (maybe Floyd's or deer) and deer fur on it, the front wheel was not damaged at all.
Car drivers stopped and were a great help - the driver behind us was an ER doc on his way to the hospital, and another driver phoned an ambulance and firetruck up to us. A firetruck and an ambulance arrived to check over Floyd and took him to Highland Hospital for cat-scans, stitches, wrist brace and road rash on the bottom cleanings.
I picked him up around noon when he was released. We recovered his bicycle from the "gurney garage" and I got Floyd to his hotel where his son arrived to help out, and where Sensys was having its meeting!
Floyd was in a hurry to get back to CO, considering himself lucky to get out of Berkeley at this point.
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