by "Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
Published 05/03/2017 at 20:13
by "Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
Published 05/03/2017 at 20:13
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No idea why this popped into my mind just now, but I feel like sharing: A few years ago, I had ridden my bike about 5 miles to a store in the mid afternoon. By the time I was heading back, it was already late sunset. So I decided to take a shortcut down a nature trail to get home faster.
As you can imagine, the sun went down almost completely before I made it half a mile down the three mile trail... Through the woods... With no streetlights whatsoever... And with lots of wildlife activity, ranging from deer to alligators. Occasionally I would see two glowing eyes reflecting my inadequate, dim headlight. I had my bike in high gear the whole time and pushed my legs so hard it felt like the veins were going to pop. Never again.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
05/03/2017 at 20:31, STARS: 1
I had something similar years ago. I rode from LAX down the strand to Palos Verdes and back, but still felt like I had more energy left in me. So I headed the other way, taking the trail along Ballona Creek until the trail ended, up by National Blvd.
I turned around and headed back, and my legs just gave out. Nothing left - no more energy in reserve. It took hours to get back to the car, and it was late and dark by the time I finally got there. I had left my cell in the car and found a dozen messages from my girlfriend wondering what had happened to me. I wish I had during the ride because I would have called her to get me back home.
Oh, and something car related: I was so tired when I mounted the bike on the rack on the back of the car that I didn’t secure it very well and the pedal scraped the hell out of the back of the trunk lid. D’oh! (I did get it fixed a few months later when the car was repainted after an accident, but still...)
"E92M3" (E46M3)
05/03/2017 at 20:51, STARS: 1
One time when I was probably 8 or 9 years old I was across the street at a neighbors house, riding down his steep driveway back to my house. It was in the evening, but still daylight (7-ish) I woke up in my yard with my bike laying a few feet away, but it was already dark (8:30).
I have no idea what happened. I didn’t have a bruise on me. If I was hit by a car I imagine my bike and me would of had some kind of damage. I can only assume it was Aliens.
"MrDakka" (mrdakka)
05/03/2017 at 20:52, STARS: 2
"yitznewton" (yitznewton)
05/03/2017 at 20:54, STARS: 1
Oh yeah, I spent a year studying in Israel, and one time a group of us hiked from Safed to the tomb of Yonatan ben Uziel, a minor pilgrimage site in the middle of a hilly forest. The guy who was leading our group was all confident, “yeah, there’s this pay phone there with a taxi sticker, we’ll call for a taxi to get us out.”
The sun started going down, all the other visitors packed out, and we went looking for the pay phone... which was either a figment of this guy’s imagination, or had been removed. I think one of our group had a cell phone (it was 2003), but if he did, there was no reception.
We started freaking out a bit, but thankfully there was one guy left in the parking lot who had a van, and gave us a ride back to town.
To this day I wonder what would have happened if we’d been stuck there without a ride. It turns out it wasn’t far from civilization, but there were zero lights, and as far as I know, none of us had any idea of what direction to go.
"MrDakka" (mrdakka)
05/03/2017 at 20:59, STARS: 1
Back in college, I biked to Sacramento from Davis and back, ~30 miles. Afterwards, everything seemed fine, my legs and ass felt a little sore, but nothing major. I woke up the next day, I tried to get up and couldn’t; everything was way too sore. Had to walk around like a zombie because I couldn’t bend my knees. It was kind of funny at first, but got really annoying when trying to sit down.
"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
05/03/2017 at 21:14, STARS: 1
Alligators are fucking sweet. I wish they could be domesticated. I’d so have a pet alligator.
"TorqueToYield" (torquetoyield)
05/03/2017 at 21:44, STARS: 1
The urban version of that is getting caught in the wrong side of town after dark with no car and a bike with a flat tire.
Alligators or heat packing drug dealers? Personally I’d go with the drug dealers, alligators scare me...
"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
05/03/2017 at 21:54, STARS: 0
Funny thing is I actually did end up lost on my bike in the projects one time. A group of kids with no shirts on and saggy pants came up to me and one just said, “You look lost.” and gave me directions back to town. I’m not even sure how he figured that out since I was just trying to pretend I knew what I was doing so that nobody would think I was looking for a house to rob or something. Wasn’t even a case of being the only white person around, as is the case in some low-income neighborhoods. It was actually pretty diverse there, but everyone was equally sketchy.
"MrDakka" (mrdakka)
05/03/2017 at 22:08, STARS: 1
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