Tundra_Man Happy Birthday!

A couple of falls ago I arrived home after biking from the office minus my wedding ring. I remembered hearing a "ping" while riding and thought it might be a broken spoke. I stopped briefly and inspected the wheels...they were fine. I reviewed the helmet cam video and pinpointed the spot where the ping occured.

The exact part of the bike lane where the "ping" occurred was ankle deep in leaves for two blocks. I spend an hour looking up and down the block.

Over the next three days I rode the same stretch looking for the ring. By this point the leaves had blown away, or had been swept up. On the third subsequent ride home I resolved to give up, but then the air-brakes of a bus two blocks up caught my attention. Behind it I saw a glint of light in the bike lane, beyond where I would have turned the corner.

I rode up...and there was the ring! It's not expensive, my wife has always wanted me to upgrade it...but it has sentimental value for me.

What had happened was some jerk in a car cut me off and I hit my AirZound airhorn a little too hard knocking it off its clip. It fell off and was in danger of getting tangled in the front spokes (happened once before). I tried to re-clip it while riding and caught the ring on something. I now wrap the air horn hose on the bars of the bikes to prevent them falling in the spokes. ANd I try not to adjust things too much while riding.