Originally Posted by
RChung
Hmmm. I disagree. I set my peak 5-sec, 10-sec, 15-sec, and 20-sec power on a ride right after a guy in a car buzzed me and my buddy. I knew he was likely to get caught at the next stop light and lit out after him. The real problem is that I didn't know what to do with him when I caught him.
[Edited to add] Though to be fair, I don't know for sure since I wasn't wearing a HR belt that day, but I'm thinking my HR was probably a bit high right then.
You just reminded me of what happened to a guy I worked with in a bike store in Connecticut. He lived in Bridgeport and commuted by bike to the shop, in New Haven. Very tall, very muscular, very strong guy.
He arrived at the shop one day and told us what had happened on the way in. On a stretch of road in Milford, a couple of guys in a pickup truck apparently thought it would be funny to run this big guy on a bike off the road. Our guy said to us, "Boy, was I mad!"
He knew there was a traffic light up ahead a quarter-mile. While passing a construction site, he leaned down and grabbed a cinder block. He then tossed it through the pickup's windshield.
"They weren't laughing then," he said.