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Old 11-28-06 | 07:33 PM
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Flimflam
Raving looney
 
Joined: Jul 2006
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From: Toronto, ON, Canada

Bikes: 70s Leader Precision w/Shimano 600 (road), IRO Rob Roy (Fixed)

Had a good but windy ride home - turns out I must've had a tailwind this morning, as I head a helluva headwind going against me eastbound. Had a van pull into my lane briefly (I knew it was going to happen, I could just sense it) before my "whoooooaaaaaaa" in a Glenn Quagmire voice seemed to correct that (or he saw me )
Saw a cyclist (in fact, I'm pretty sure you ALL saw this guy) when on the Bloor bridge, and I'm not kidding, he must be like mechB / 2many'lights' father or something, this guy must've had about 20 lights on the back, including strobe blinkies in amber and blue and a LARGE helping of hi-vis. reflective material on his rear trunk going ride down to ground level. I slowed down and took a photo of the dude from behind, I just had to try and get one
It's a horrible cellphone image, sorry, but hopefully it gets the point over



Had to replace my batteries on my PB 5000x tonight too, I was doing some hi/low + other headlight testing on Chester (very quiet small residential street, but dark in patches) and a couple of turns later found it off, so pulled over and did a switch - glad I bought some cheapo AAs to stuff in my backpack. That stop made me cold due to the sweat, but had a good run after anyway.

37 mins, 13.1 avg.
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