Perfect '10'
04-19-09 | 07:01 PM
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Crankenstein
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Perfect '10'
Last Friday morning I'm on the way to work in a nice spring snowstorm. Coming up on an intersection where railroad tracks cross diagonally right through the center of the intersection, and I have to turn right across them (I pass through this intersection daily, it's less than a block and a half from my house)
I suddenly realize that there's a bus approaching from the right, and I don't even have my lights on... fiddle with the light for the half second or so that it takes to turn it on and... I'm right on top of the tracks!
Hit the wet track, front tire follows the track to the left, and out from under me... I don't have time to think, I just JUMP... bike goes sideways beneath me, I land about a foot in front of it on my feet!
Look up and the bus driver is staring at me (looks sort of like this:
) So I throw both arms into the air and strike a triumphant pose like a gymnast that's just nailed a perfect '10' landing in the Olympics.Got a big thumbs up (
) from the bus driver!Thought you'd all get a kick out of the story! Stay safe out there, and watch out for those tracks!
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"There is no greater wonder than the way the face and character of a woman fit so perfectly in a man's mind, and stay there, and he could never tell you why. It just seems it was the thing he most wanted." Robert Louis Stevenson
"There is no greater wonder than the way the face and character of a woman fit so perfectly in a man's mind, and stay there, and he could never tell you why. It just seems it was the thing he most wanted." Robert Louis Stevenson
Last edited by bmclaughlin807; 04-19-09 at 07:04 PM.
04-29-09 | 06:39 AM
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Beautiful! I have walked off my bike but never stuck the landing.....Once was behind a guy who went down on wet tracks clipped in..man he hit hard! Stayed clipped in well though...
Thanks for sharing!
04-29-09 | 08:57 AM
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Good job, I wish I could have seen it. How many other people witnessed it? Any applause?
04-29-09 | 05:07 PM
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Crankenstein
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Just the bus driver (as far as I know)... but his reaction was golden.
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"There is no greater wonder than the way the face and character of a woman fit so perfectly in a man's mind, and stay there, and he could never tell you why. It just seems it was the thing he most wanted." Robert Louis Stevenson
"There is no greater wonder than the way the face and character of a woman fit so perfectly in a man's mind, and stay there, and he could never tell you why. It just seems it was the thing he most wanted." Robert Louis Stevenson
04-29-09 | 09:25 PM
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At a base in Korea there's a sign before the rail road tracks with a stick figure doing what looks like a head stand. It suppose to warn cyclist to be careful crossing the track. It's rumored an officer on a road bike broke his collar bone or something there.
