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Old 02-15-06 | 11:28 PM
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Bikes: Bruce Gordon BLT, Cannondale parts bike, Ecodyne recumbent trike, Counterpoint Opus 2, miyata 1000

Dead On Road. Something new dead every day as half my commute is in farm/wetland country. Raccoons and possums every week, skunks every month or two, 15 to 20 deer a year. A fun roadkill case was when the city didn't remove a huge raccoon carcass from the bike lane for two days. The next morning on my pre-dawn commute I used medical gloves and tossed the body out into a traffic lane when no cars could be seen on the curvy road. Next AM the mess was gone. My worst was having a big nasty looking dog running toward me as I rode a narrow roadside path over a long bridge. If the dog had hit me or just knocked me off of the bike I would have fallen into heavy traffic. I stood on the pedals to look bigger and whistled loudly. The dog stopped at first then as I got close it jumped off of the path and under a truck. Loud crunch and the dog became dogburger about 3 feet from me as I sprinted past.
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