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First off I'm ok, sore, a little scraped up (not even any Blood!) and not so happy, but Ok.

Secondly I took on a School Bus and lived to tell the tale.

Well here it goes, riding home today enjoying the nice weather and I noticed odd handling on the front of my Ebike, started playing around with it, but I couldn't figure out what it was. I decided to just ride it home and figure it out there, realized that I was going to have excess power when I got home so I went ahead and put some speed on (27~30 vs norm 24~25).
When I got about a 1/3 mile from home a school bus was oncoming, I saw a single flash of the yellow lights and knew that I would have a very difficult time stopping in time at the speed I was traveling, so I stood up on the pedals and went full throttle. The Bus driver didn't like that Idea and swerved in to my lane, (apparently not realizing that I was traveling over 30 mph). I knew at that point that I was going to hit something, jabbed on the brakes HARD and the front handling issue became very very bad, I leaned back as far as I could, keeping both tires as close as posable to locking up while trying to steer for the ditch with very little success. I went off pavement at the nose of the bus which was still in motion, the wheel dug in to the soft dirt, and I went flying through the air, landed about at the back of the bus (when it stopped). Stood right up, looked around to see if something else would hit me, saw the stop signs swing out (about 3 feet from the back one), checked my self for blood, non-functional limbs and called to police. I then got a speech from the driver about how I should always stop for school busses and about how they always have the right of way if the lights are flashing stop signs don't have to be out, )I'm rather certain that this is false information). Checked out bike to find a low front tire.



(above copy and pasted from report)

Few thoughts for Eco-Modder
1) 17" MacBook Pro is a trooper, survived in my back pack (I do keep it between 2 layers of stiff card board, and the pack is padded. And the WiFi works at the scene of the crash.
2) Police like to make you seem inconsequential when you are in a bike wreck with a bus full of kids (which I endangered.) But do come around when they realize what the driver did to you.
3) WEAR A HELMET even though my head didn't hit anything, just not worrying about it hitting anything while flying through the air is a huge help.
4) I may be driving exclusively for a few days.
5) I've got to go