Knocked Down!
I got hit for the first time this trip by a piki-piki (motorcycle). He knocked-off my right-side Bikebin, spilling the contents on the busy highway. After picking myself up, I gathered up the gear and moved to the side of the road to clean and dress my wounds. There’s a road rash on my right knee and some skin off my right thumb, too. A spoke nipple broke off the front wheel and two chain links and one sprocket tooth bent on the large front sprocket. I removed the damaged chain links and pedaled back to Arusha where bike mechanic Juma bent the tooth back into alignment, replaced the spoke nipple and trued the wheel. I put an epoxy patch on the plastic Bikebin and wires to hold on the broken hinges.
The hit-and-run piki-piki driver may have assumed I was on a motorcycle, as many people do, speeding downhill; and he did not expect me to slow going uphill when he slammed into me. We spent two more nights in Arusha enabling us to visit Alex at One Heart Source for a third time.
