For those that don't know; the cargo bike ride is partly about showing off what can be done with bikes! Bike trailers, xtracycles, cargo bikes, rickshaws, what have you.

What can be done with cargo bikes? Darn near kill me, that's what.

Less than a km from Gas Works some hippie friend of Aaron's shimmied his trailer into my front wheel. I went down harder than the peleton sprinting into a city-centre finish over wet road markings on a Spring Classic. Now I have bruises on my knee, elbow, shoulder and one on hip that extends so far, it's halfway onto my arse.

No, I won't show you on the Thursday ride, not even if you ask nice.

Then the hippie dude spins around and says "wow that hurts! Don't get up..." (as I lay in the middle of the road still clipped into my pedals) "don't worry, nothin' a little alcohol won't fix" he adds as he breaks out a bottle of whiskey.

I swear, you guys really are trying to kill me.

Did the hippie have long hair? Was he dirty?

Sounds like David Wilson, but I wasn't there. Dave is usually more awear of his surroundings than this story would indicate, so it may have been someone else.