Training wheels, anyone?

[Pinner]

GLENEAGLES, Scotland - President Bush collided with a local police officer and fell during a bike ride on the grounds of the Gleneagles golf resort while attending a meeting of world leaders Wednesday.

Bush suffered "mild to moderate" scrapes on his hands and arms that required bandages by the White House physician, said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. The accident occurred on asphalt, McClellan said, but Bush was wearing a helmet at the time.

The police officer was taken to a local hospital as a precaution, McClellan said. Police said the officer suffered a "very minor" ankle injury.

It was raining lightly at the time.

The officer was on a security detail. He is a member of the police department of Strathclyde, a nearby town, McClellan said.

The president was concerned about the officer's condition, and talked with him for some time after the collision, McClellan said. The president also asked White House physician Richard Tubb to monitor the officer's condition at the hospital.

The presidential bike suffered some damage, McClellan said, so Bush rode back to the hotel in a Secret Service vehicle.

The fall did not affect the president's schedule. Dressed in a tuxedo, he attended a dinner hosted by Queen Elizabeth at the annual Group of Eight economic summit. He showed no signs of distress.

[Buzzworthy]

Poor baby, WAAAAAAAAAA!


"Presidential bike suffered damage" , what, it is not bullet proof?


Edit: any pics, Dumbya ridin a squishy?? Gettin mad air?

Rain, RAIN!

[Below Zero]

Presidential bike! BWAAAAHHHHHH!

[Tippster]

If whichever plane he happens to be on is called Airforce One and whichever Helicopter is called Marine One....

Who gets the bikes? The BLM?

[Blizzard7763]

Was it the same bike that Trek gave him a few months ago?

[LaramieSkiBum]

he was probably riding on the wrong side of the damn street....

[freshie247]

This is just a cover story to obfuscate the real truth,

THAT HE GOT HIS FACE STUCK IN CHENEY'S ZIPPER!

[Sublime]

Isn't this the second time the jackass has fallen off his bike?

[flatlander#2]

As a die hard liberal it bugs me that he is actually a pretty accomplished rider and probably rides more than many on the board, me included. My excuse is that I have a 2.5 year old and an infant and a mortgage and a job and a relationship with my wife...Also don't forget he's up there in years relative to many here as well. Not slapping a W sticker on my truck by any means, just saying...and yeah I think he rides a Trek welded with care by a 12 year old Tiawanese.

[PaSucks]

There is a video floating around on the 'net somewhere of him falling off one of those Segway things. Pretty funny shit.

Although in all seriousness, hate on the man for his politics, not for sucking at riding a bike or choking on a pretzel.

[Ubersheist]

The dude's just trying to have some fun on a bike. Hate him because he started a war on false pretenses, or his religious bent that sways his politics, not because he was living life a little bit.

Who amoung us hasn't endo-ed before? Let he who is without scars cast the first cheap shot...

[Telenater]

Yeah, I thought it would be funny to start making fun of GW for crashing when I heard about it, but then I got to thinking. I've crashed on my bike more than I've heard of him doing (and even minor crashes for him seem to make the news), and I'm half his age.

Honestly, if more of the US biked and exercised like he does, we'd have significantly less of a health care crisis. Americans need to get off their tubby butts, at least he's showing that no matter how busy your life is, someone who is busier has found the time.

[scoober]

...and yeah I think he rides a Trek welded with care by a 12 year old Tiawanese.

Pretty sure he rides a full carbon Fuel, which are still hand laid with love in Waterloo, WI.

[Arty50]

Isn't this the second time the jackass has fallen off his bike?

I believe it's the third.

I think we should all chip in and buy him Body Armor One.

[LAN]

Perhaps he needs one of these?

[LaramieSkiBum]

The dude's just trying to have some fun on a bike. Hate him because he started a war on false pretenses, or his religious bent that sways his politics, not because he was living life a little bit.

Who amoung us hasn't endo-ed before? Let he who is without scars cast the first cheap shot...

oh please...the most powerful person in the world fell off his bike because he hit a police officer...that deserves some humor.

[SkiingBear]

Pretty sure he rides a full carbon Fuel, which are still hand laid with love in Waterloo, WI.

Pretty sure Trek buys the tubes elsewhere and assembles them in Wisconsin. According to Bicycle Magazine:

Time weaves its carbon in-house instead of buying it. As far as we know, Time and Giant are the only companies with this capability.

Trek hypes up the made in the USA thing a little too much. They're assembled in the US...the actual parts are made somewhere else.[COLOR=Red]

[scoober]

Pretty sure Trek buys the tubes elsewhere and assembles them in Wisconsin. According to Bicycle Magazine:

Time weaves its carbon in-house instead of buying it. As far as we know, Time and Giant are the only companies with this capability.

Trek hypes up the made in the USA thing a little too much. They're assembled in the US...the actual parts are made somewhere else.[COLOR=Red]

You're confusing carbon sheet with carbon tubing.

Machines weave carbon fiber, that can be done anywhere, it is just a raw material. Laying the fiber sheets into tube molds, assembling those tubes onto the lugs and joining with adhesive is what constitutes frame production. Trek's OCLV process is highly proprietary and patented, and those tubes aren't made anywhere but in their factory in WI.

I believe that Time and Giant are the only ones weaving their own carbon fiber sheets. However, let's say Trek was buying Giant's Taiwanese woven carbon sheets. Those sheets are still shipped to the Trek factory in Wisconsin and formed into tubing.

It's pretty trendy to hate on Trek because they are the big guy, but they do all of their high end, high tech, hand made stuff in the US. Low to mid level aluminum frames are made elsewhere and that is no big shocker.

[Trackhead]

Honestly, if more of the US biked and exercised like he does, we'd have significantly less of a health care crisis. Americans need to get off their tubby butts, at least he's showing that no matter how busy your life is, someone who is busier has found the time.

Exactly. Tub O' Lard we have become.

[Big E]

The dude's just trying to have some fun on a bike. Hate him because he started a war on false pretenses, or his religious bent that sways his politics, not because he was living life a little bit.

Who amoung us hasn't endo-ed before? Let he who is without scars cast the first cheap shot...

Bingo-bango. From a personal fitness/health standpoint, W sets a way better example than Clinton's daily half-mile jog to Mickey D's.