And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Missed putting the bottle back in the bottle cage. Then stopped peddling to look down at what he was doing which shifted his center of balance and turned the wheel simultaneously. Then its road rash all around.
Rule #1 Learn some bike handling skill and pay 'fing attention to what you're doing in a group ride. When I start out with a bunch and don't know some of them I watch their riding style (or lack of it) and predict the goof balls that are likely to crash out.
Tall, skinny tires, it's easy to do.
ReplyDeleteRule #1: When taking a drink move to the back of the line.
Strike!
ReplyDeleteMissed putting the bottle back in the bottle cage. Then stopped peddling to look down at what he was doing which shifted his center of balance and turned the wheel simultaneously. Then its road rash all around.
ReplyDeleteThis instantly triggered my ear-worm playback of a 1963 Sufaris tune.
ReplyDeleteAh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaa. Wipe out!
DeleteRule #1 Learn some bike handling skill and pay 'fing attention to what you're doing in a group ride. When I start out with a bunch and don't know some of them I watch their riding style (or lack of it) and predict the goof balls that are likely to crash out.
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