| Name: | Ben Wichers Schreur <ben@knmi.nl> | |
| Age: | M 37 (22 March 1960) | |
| Mass: | 68 kg, 150 lb | |
| Size: | 170 cm, 5'7" | |
| Bikes: | wedgies: Jan Jansen (TIOOYK) Vuelta, Wim Zoon (custom) bents: Roulandt '83, M5 tandem (to be delivered soon) | |
| Rides: | 5 day/week commute 45km/28mi round trip, erratic weekend rides with girlfriend, will increase drastically once car is off and tandem is on the road. | |
| Where: | De Hazelaar, Mauvezand 17 NL 1251 JC Laren NH The Netherlands | |
| Works: | scientist, short range numerical weather forecasting | |
| Likes: | Living the good life. Favquote: 'Les forces humaines n'ont pas de limites' - Alfred Jarry, Le surmale 1902). | |
| Climbs: | not surveyed | |
| Crash: | until '94 average of 1 wipe-out/year, mainly sand, gravel or black ice when cornering, resulting in nothing more serious than road rash. '94 was different: - head first over the handlebars of my JJ bike in an emergency stop. Badly needed a new helmet after this experience, but the old head and bike came away unscathed - backward somersault with the Roulandt on hitting the curb. Seat back took the full blow. I was more bemused than shocked when I found myself on my back on the street, still clipped in and holding the bike on top of me. The bike needed serious repairs, more so because the front end had been mauled the day before by a friend, who did a forward somersault when he put both feet down at 13 miles per hour. - wipe out on black ice in a corner. My JJ bike just disappeared underneath me, I came crashing down and the forward momentum took me all the way across the road. No visible signs of damage, no road rash, nothing, but... I quickly found out that I couldn't stand on my right leg. A passing taxi took me to hospital, where X-rays showed I had a fractured collum, or, as it is popularly known a broken hip. The assorted hardware that was used to piece it back together would buy a nice bent. Instead of spending the Christmas vacation on skis in Austria I spent two weeks in hospital playing Scrabble. I'm now looking forward to 3 months of rehabilitation. | |
| Beard: | not surveyed | |
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