Road Cycling - I AM AN UNSTOPPABLE JUGGERNAUT! Wait...

I was unstoppable today...I was killin' the hills today, and going around 25 on the flats. The weather was great, in the high 50's. As my riding partner finally catches up, he says, how do you go so fast on those hills? Im 40lbs heavier then him and my bike weighs 10 pounds more then his...yet i'm still beating him...

Then the skies turned overcast around the 15 mile mark. We decided to start heading home. At 21.35 miles, I got a flat. Since my bike is a 1980s beast, it is not QR. I didn't have a wrench, and I just didn't feel like changing the tire on the side of the road.

Out came the cell phone to call mommy, but she's not home! Her cell isn't on! Luckily, my friend Brad was able to reach his mommy, and she came in her SUV and picked us up. A dissapointing end to a good ride...

I felt unstoppable this morning until someone decided that they didn't have the brains to understand the concept of a "Total fire ban" and flooded the sky with smoke.

:mad:

You made an interesting comparison, Phatman. The origin of the word juggernaut comes from the huge, heavy, wooden car that carries the image of Lord Jaganatha each year across the city of Puri in India. Once that car starts rolling down the slight downhill course, it cannot be stopped. It only stops when it crashes and falls apart (the image of the deity is chaged every year!). So it's not inappropriate that your juggernaut (you said your bike is real heavy) was stopped by a slight mishap. Because the wheels of the juggernaut are so huge sometimes people get crushed under then. Any victims today? ;)

You know, I was actually thinking more like that game Warcraft II where the battleships were called Juggernauts.

I suppose that the real meaning would be closer to what I was talking about. I guess you learn something new everyday!


So it's not inappropriate that your juggernaut (you said your bike is real heavy) was stopped by a slight mishap. Because the wheels of the juggernaut are so huge sometimes people get crushed under then. Any victims today?

no, no one died...

sometimes I'm riding and I feel unstopable... then I realize that the wind is with me :p

been there before....it is harder to replicate it.