Originally Posted by indyfabz

It was. I had the lights down low, Steely Dan's Aja playing, some wine, when I turned the bike over to remove the wheels and saw in the rings what looked like a blob with a leaf sticking out of it. I thought "Well, I was in NYC, so anything could have happened." Pulled the blob out by what I thought was the leaf and held it up to my face. That's when I realized I was holding a bat wing with a bat attached to it. It's eyes were open and fangs showing. And there was a red spot of blood right in the middle of its chest where it had been impaled on the chainring. I dropped it on the bar and ran to the kitchen scrub my fingers.