What A Ride

Colleagues were joking, haha, if it keeps snowing like that we all get stuck here.
(Not that funny a thought, actually)

I came home early, grabbed my gym-stuff and went to the bike. Had some trouble to open the lock. More trouble to loop it around where the saddle is. The steel really is inflexible in these temps, was around -4 to -5C.

Some hours later I unlocked the bike again - and had no chance to loop the steel! I really did try hard, in the end I managed to make one big loop and hung it on the handlebar, keeping my hand on it.

Boy, the cold did hurt in the nose!!!

Now... there is a huge construction site where the bridge was before. And the tram. You just cannot guess where the darn rails are with the blockages and all.

Yeah, you guess it. Covered with mud I didn´t see and THERE I go!

I really even had the time to think: Oh no!! I´m falling! What now?! Hands, spread out your hands!

Gosh, if there had been cars... luckily there aren´t many with the construction site.
Three people came running for help but I felt nothing was broken - at least not on my part.
I need a new set of lights. And the handbreaks are somewhat to the downside, too.

So, I thanked the guys, hopped on the bike and drove on, securing the lock with left hand, holding the light in the right hand, uphill. Fingers felt like falling off from the cold...

And only after some 300 metres I felt my hands trembling from the little shock! Gosh, really. Am I happy and lucky this happened whilst the place being under construction and free from cars, I flew all over the place and ... ya know... I´d flewn in the opposing traffic!

Thought the knee was bleeding, but will only be dark-blue by tomorrow.

And now I could guess you might think I didn´t deserve better, because... I took care to wear glasses I don´t like much for in case I might fall...

You sure know Dumb and Dumber... well. When I wanted to lock the bike, the lock itself didn´t want to snatch, is was so cold it needed to fit perfectly... or be a bit warmer. So I breathed against and got my lips against the steel!!

Boy, when I was up in the apartment I saw -11C!!!

What a ride, I tell ya...

When will be summer again?

Lucky me I don´t have to drive to Wolfsburg before Jan 6 or even 11.

But... I wanna get to the gym, and by bike. Keep your fingers crossed this cold weather is over soon.

Boy, do my knees hurt!

Addendum
Went - on foot! - to the gym, in the jacket I wear usually (signals on it). One trainer said, gosh, even in this weather you come by bike?!
Said no and told him what happened.
Exactly the same with him, same place - just he wasn´t as lucky, he broke his shoulder!