I smell like crap.
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I smell like crap.
Seriously. I don't know what was going on today. Between counting garbage trucks and dump trucks I gave up after being passed by 20 of them. Sometimes I couldn't help but hold my breath for extended periods after they blew past me. And I was only out for 35mi/2hrs!
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Kind of how I felt - seeing the expression on my husband's face, after coming home from a long early season ride - past the freshly laid manure in the fields!
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unfortunately, yes it is. for at least a mile, poo droplets blowing off the truck, smeared all over the road and flicking up from my front wheel. my throat felt like it was burning and the taste of the air was appalling. i do not recommend it.
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Have been there once myself and was able to stop quite quickly and run the other way... but it did get me for a short while. Horrendous.
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Has coddling tendencies.
A few years back, a weekly gig had me driving home around midnight every Friday night. The route was along a major freeway west of Los Angeles (405), up the Sepulveda Pass and down into the San Fernando Valley. Almost without exception, I would be driving along with trucks hauling what smelled like raw sewage. Possibly it was sewage sludge from a local water treatment plant being transferred to another processing facility. We were obviously on the same schedule. It was just awful, and I couldn't do a thing about it because many of them continued driving that route for at least an hour.
And now, my life tip of the day: As I've gotten older, I tend to tolerate more of the aesthetic inconveniences that used to irritate me to no end while driving. Slow moving trucks and buses, plus the smell of deisel exhaust no longer sends me into a fit of disdain. Not that I enjoy it, but I now see them as services without which our lives would be less convenient.
And now, my life tip of the day: As I've gotten older, I tend to tolerate more of the aesthetic inconveniences that used to irritate me to no end while driving. Slow moving trucks and buses, plus the smell of deisel exhaust no longer sends me into a fit of disdain. Not that I enjoy it, but I now see them as services without which our lives would be less convenient.
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Nothing worse than accidentally traversing a freshly dropped trail of garbage truck "juice".
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A few years back, a weekly gig had me driving home around midnight every Friday night. The route was along a major freeway west of Los Angeles (405), up the Sepulveda Pass and down into the San Fernando Valley. Almost without exception, I would be driving along with trucks hauling what smelled like raw sewage. Possibly it was sewage sludge from a local water treatment plant being transferred to another processing facility. We were obviously on the same schedule. It was just awful, and I couldn't do a thing about it because many of them continued driving that route for at least an hour.
And now, my life tip of the day: As I've gotten older, I tend to tolerate more of the aesthetic inconveniences that used to irritate me to no end while driving. Slow moving trucks and buses, plus the smell of deisel exhaust no longer sends me into a fit of disdain. Not that I enjoy it, but I now see them as services without which our lives would be less convenient.
And now, my life tip of the day: As I've gotten older, I tend to tolerate more of the aesthetic inconveniences that used to irritate me to no end while driving. Slow moving trucks and buses, plus the smell of deisel exhaust no longer sends me into a fit of disdain. Not that I enjoy it, but I now see them as services without which our lives would be less convenient.
Maybe you guys ought to talk with these folks, then: https://www.bikeforums.net/road-cycling/552882-drafting-big-trucks.html
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In 1990 I was touring with some friends and we went to a place called Cave-in-Rock on the Ohio River. On the road into 'town' we were passed by many coal trucks. By the time we stopped we were covered in coal dust and looked like minstrals, or something.
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Has coddling tendencies.
And I thought the tip of the day was going to be that you rolled up your windows.
Maybe you guys ought to talk with these folks, then: https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=552882
Maybe you guys ought to talk with these folks, then: https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=552882
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