No. And red lights in east west bumfuck are also runnable if you stop or call it clear.
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Yeah middle of nowhere bumfuck red lights are game, but you have to make it clear you’re gonna run it, either signal or just up and call it out.
I normally yell “I’m breaking the law!”
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I also had an encounter with an owl this year. It was not magical.
as long as you kiss your fingers and raise them to the sky while burning through the intersection, it’s totally fine.
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you can hear his pelvic bones fucking exploding from here, fifteen years in the future. Poor guy.
How’s his rear end just die like that?
It was really hot that TdF; oil was seeping out of the tarmac.
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I thought the only rule to cat 6 racing was that it’s impossible to lose. Either you win, or your opponent is disqualified.
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The dq for running a red changes everything.
Was it anything like Fred’s encounter with a cloaca?
Similar I believe, I had a giant owl fly in front of me for like 15 seconds and just as I was thinking how magical this experience was it crapped all over my chin and chest.
Just speaking of owls, I’ve had an owl infestation this year. I hear them all the time, but I used to see them only a few times a year. This year I had 3-4 hanging out in my yard all day, every day. I even watched one snatch a young squirrel, and then it flew to a branch only about 20 feet away and hissed at me. I was like I don’t want your fucking squirrel dude.
Also I thought that owls just hooted. Barred owls also make a weird alien hissing sound.
Spotted a bike friday in melb yesterday, yellow with swift junk bucket, pacelining half the way. Is this an OR takeover?
Tonight I rode the partybike to a friday movie night. Jeans, plaid flannel, beer bottles clinking in the basket. It’s smokepocalypse right now so I had a particle mask on and wasn’t planning on riding hard.
A dude came up behind and squeezed between me and an oncoming bike on Steven’s Creek Trail - super unsafe pass in the dark, and completely uncalled for. I turned it up a notch and caught up climbing the bridge over Central Expressway and the Caltrain tracks. He was on some sort of fancy e-bike - Specialized Turbo maybe? I sucked his wheel down the far side of the bridge and onto Evelyn heading east, then made my pass and never looked back. He eventually caught up while I was waiting for the left turn arrow onto Mary.
Always feels good to outrun an ebike, doubly so when I’m on my silliest bike… but my lungs kinda hurt now. Tastes like China.
Had my first icefucker commute of the year last night. got maybe a half inch of snow, MPLS doesn’t do jack shit about it, it melts on the road in the sun, and refroze in the 15 degree post sundown temps. I forgot the feeling of carefully threading incredibly slippery roads in the dark while impatient and annoyed car commuters zip past every two seconds. At least I have dyno lights now.
Tc: kind of excited to see your snöbici
Bike nutz
Whoever buys my xtracycle gets one of those
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After seeing truck nutz the first time, I thought it would be funny to have bike nutz. But seeing them is more upsetting than I thought it’d be at the time. I guess because you’ve nearly attached them to your person and they’re less absurd?
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