Incident type: Obstacle

My friend and I were coming back from an early morning bike ride on the Rock Island Greenway in Peoria, IL.  The trail surface is dark/asphalt, and there were also shadows being cast on the trail surface making it even hard to see obstacles.  At one point in the trail, the asphalt was bubbled/heaved up due to the growth of tree roots underneath.  My friend didn’t see one really large heave in the pavement, and it cause his front wheel to go to the side.  He was ok – just shaken up but rode back to start where our cars were parked.

piece of a jack off a car or truck in the bike lane rider hits it and rips front tyre to pieces and looses control of bike

Large Group Ride riding 20-22 pace.   Palm branch was in the road and a large crash ensued.  Three went to the hospital, 2 broken bones, one concussion.    Clear example of not calling out obstacles.

Freeway bikepath closed. Detour has multiple bollards on the path, they were called but someone wasn’t paying attention….

Exiting a bike path onto the roadway, a man was standing in the middle of the road looking down. I gave him wide berth, but as I neared, his looked up, took 2 quick steps towards me, jumped and kicked me in the ribs, knocking me to the ground. Thanks to the Fly 6 footage, he’s been jailed on 3 felony counts and is currently waiting trial.