Monday, September 16, 2024

Bitchin Straights Bro


 With little time between football and a concert later I took the gravel bike out from home and found the straight and narrow Township Road 505 out to Eagle Rock golf course and back on a much busier Sunday traffic filled 510 back to Beaumont. 

Vehicles today were very courteous and passed at a wide berth which was awesome but a few oncoming drivers had their eyes on their lap where a phone might happen to be. 

Headphones are usually worn so I don't feel the anticipation of something coming up from behind me on these types of rides. 

If it happened just let it happen and smite me with a Kia Sorrento. It would have been warranted as punishment from the singletrack Gods for yesterdays deplorable day. I do hug the side of the road and it kinda makes it interesting trying to stay so close to the ditch. 

No Kia Sorrento's hit me or anything else like a meteor or a cow shooting an ak-47. I made it home safe and sound. 


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