Some Statistics...

i had my old bike for 14 months, including like 9 or 10 of racing.
i never crashed it once.
i have had my new bike for less than 1 month.
i have crashed it twice already!
one time was in a race, at gila, my "crash" was sort of anticlimactic because i came down at the end of a huge, unavoidable pile of girls and bikes. but i saw it happening and therefore wasn't going especially fast when i came down.
the second time was today when i dumbly assumed that since every other roundabout on california (btw berkeley's idea of a roundabout is pretty weak. they don't slow anyone down because they are too small, they just impede visibility, because there are signs and plants in the middle) was a 4 way stop, anyway i assumed that this other one was but it was just a 2 way stop and the stop was in my direction, which i only realized after i was halfway through the intersection going like 17 mph and headed straight for a speeding shiny subaru outback station wagon. i can confidently say that the side of a subaru station wagon is very unforgiving on impact. thankfully the guy was really nice, thankfully he stopped to make sure i was ok, thankfully i didn't dent his car, thankfully he wasn't yelling at me since it was *totally* my fault, the only scolding i got was "you know, there was a stop sign there..."