Here's an amusing story.
08-12-07, 08:28 PM
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Here's an amusing story.
I did not witness this personally but I consider the storyteller honest and not prone to exaggeration.
I ride with a regular group on Tuesday evening. The fast group has a handful of riders and I go with the larger, slower group. Both groups meet at a Dairy Queen and then ride the last few miles home.
The fast group came in with a funny story last week. We ride on rural country roads and the corn is very high this time of year. The group came to a 2-way stop and just barely peaked around the corn to look for oncoming traffic before crossing the interesection. A recumbent rider was approaching the intersection from their right so he was on the other side of the road and had the right of way. They stopped before entering the intersectin but the recumbent rider was so startled for some reason and that he locked up his brakes and flipped straight over the top of his bars (I did not know this could be done from a recumbent but they said he was going fast). When they went over to see if he was okay, they saw a gun and a knife laying on the ground. The recumbent cyclist was quick to tell them it was not their fault and he was not going to use his weapons on them, but it made for an even more interesting story. Luckily he was not hurt and everyone went their merry way.
I don't know which is funnier, flipping over the bars of a recumbent or carrying multiple weapons while you ride!
I ride with a regular group on Tuesday evening. The fast group has a handful of riders and I go with the larger, slower group. Both groups meet at a Dairy Queen and then ride the last few miles home.
The fast group came in with a funny story last week. We ride on rural country roads and the corn is very high this time of year. The group came to a 2-way stop and just barely peaked around the corn to look for oncoming traffic before crossing the interesection. A recumbent rider was approaching the intersection from their right so he was on the other side of the road and had the right of way. They stopped before entering the intersectin but the recumbent rider was so startled for some reason and that he locked up his brakes and flipped straight over the top of his bars (I did not know this could be done from a recumbent but they said he was going fast). When they went over to see if he was okay, they saw a gun and a knife laying on the ground. The recumbent cyclist was quick to tell them it was not their fault and he was not going to use his weapons on them, but it made for an even more interesting story. Luckily he was not hurt and everyone went their merry way.
I don't know which is funnier, flipping over the bars of a recumbent or carrying multiple weapons while you ride!
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08-12-07, 08:38 PM
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Have you seen 'Children of the corn'? I'd be packing heat riding there too.
08-12-07, 08:41 PM
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I've never trusted those recumbent riders. Old guys with grey beards who wear sandals, eat granola and call us "wedgies". Something not right about them folk I tell you.
08-12-07, 08:42 PM
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A couple of years ago On the first day off Dear season, just south of Millersburg Ohio I saw an elderly Amish man on a bent with a gun case and a tree stand strapped to it. Never did find out if he got his deer, but allways wondered how he would have gotten it home.
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08-13-07, 07:11 AM
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Like the amish fellow mentioned in the previous post, perhaps this guy was using his bike as a means of transportation. If that's the case, it's not necessarily odd that he had some weapons on him; no more so than a guy in a car or truck might have them in his glovebox... don't know how legal that is in certain places, but it wouldn't surprise me all that much. Of course, had I seen those things after witnessing him tumble, I wouldn't have stuck around for the explanation.
08-13-07, 07:20 AM
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Speaking of amish, I was going to the race in Orville Ohio yesteray and I went through Amish country. I saw all kinds of people in horse drawn carriages (sp?) and a lot just walking. I did see this one that caught my attention though. He had on his black shoes, black pants, white shirt, black vest, black had and he was on a roadie with aero bars. I couldn't help but get a little laugh out of it. What's bad is he could probably kill me in a time trial. 
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08-13-07, 07:26 AM
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Speaking of amish, I was going to the race in Orville Ohio yesteray and I went through Amish country. I saw all kinds of people in horse drawn carriages (sp?) and a lot just walking. I did see this one that caught my attention though. He had on his black shoes, black pants, white shirt, black vest, black had and he was on a roadie with aero bars. I couldn't help but get a little laugh out of it. What's bad is he could probably kill me in a time trial.
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Speaking of amish, I was going to the race in Orville Ohio yesteray and I went through Amish country. I saw all kinds of people in horse drawn carriages (sp?) and a lot just walking. I did see this one that caught my attention though. He had on his black shoes, black pants, white shirt, black vest, black had and he was on a roadie with aero bars. I couldn't help but get a little laugh out of it. What's bad is he could probably kill me in a time trial.
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Orrville has 2 r's in it. What class did you race in? My club is the ones that put it on. I was Marshalling one of the corners.
Amish on areo bars and I bet the frame was about 4 sizes to big. Which is how the amish usually size a bike.
Amish on areo bars and I bet the frame was about 4 sizes to big. Which is how the amish usually size a bike.
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Speaking of amish, I was going to the race in Orville Ohio yesteray and I went through Amish country. I saw all kinds of people in horse drawn carriages (sp?) and a lot just walking. I did see this one that caught my attention though. He had on his black shoes, black pants, white shirt, black vest, black had and he was on a roadie with aero bars. I couldn't help but get a little laugh out of it. What's bad is he could probably kill me in a time trial.
