Prairie

....was a 12 mile commute today.



3 Miles into my ride home, I ran into this, I had to find another detour as the OTHER main road to my house is excessively busy during lunch hour and is relatively dangerous to be biking on. The detour I created took me 4 miles out of my way, through a quarry, and past a park I didnt know existed. It was actually pretty fun and i'm quasi glad I had to do it......I definetly won't be taking that detour again though .

When I arrived home I was pleased to see my lights arrived from performance, that was good at least!

cerewa

I would have kept going. There's usually a way past stuff like that. I'm so convinced I'd be willing to bet 90 seconds of my time on it. (don't ask me to bet a buck, though.) Cutting through a yard or the woods while carrying the bike is worth considering, as far as I'm concerned. But then, so is 4 miles of riding- it's not like you have to buy $1 of gas for those 4 miles.

rule

Yeah unless I was really looking to take the long way home anyway, that wouldn't have come close to stopping me.

Mr_Super_Socks

I did that once. the results were sub-optimal. Turned out the road had been torn out to make way for a bridge, leaving a canyon about 150 feet deep between me and my destination. I was three miles down the road before I saw the obstruction. i hoofed it into the woods about 300 yards back and well upstream of the construction. I scrambled down and eventually found a path out to the other side - carrying my bike the whole time.

I take those signs pretty seriously now.

Prairie

Chemical spill...it was closed about 1/2 mile past that point.

huhenio

Wimp .....



....just kidding!!!

cerewa

ha! I wouldn't mess around by a chemical spill either.

taterhead

Depends on the chemical.

Acid? Soap? They're both chemicals...

Sigurdd50

oh I hear that commuting in NYC is sorta like a chemical spill?

(oh and hey, NY... did ya see where the CHICAGO WHITE SOX won the world series?)

San Rensho 

I remember I came across one of those "road closed ahead" signs and I said to myself "I don't need no stinkin road!" Ten miles later, the road ends abruptly in a freshly dug ditch that goes a long way in one direction and a long way in the other. Its probably 8 to 9 feet deep so I grab my bike by the front wheel and put it into the ditch, I jump in, no problem. Now, how to get out! Took me over 45 minutes to scramble over the otherside, the whole time thinking, this is sunday afternoon, nobody will be here until monday morning, when they will find my frozen corpse in the bottom of this ditch.

In the end, it was worth it, I got to ride on about 40 miles of road with absolutely no traffic.

FLBandit

Being a curious soul I will usually ride down to see what the problem is. Sometimes you can keep going, sometimes you can't! On the other hand I've been known to take the long way home on purpose, so that has appeal also!!

jagged

Only a bike commuter would derive pleasure from a detour. Rock on.